introspective periscope : peeking inside since Y2K

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taxing

after the headache - twenty forth of february., 2003

"just breathe.~telepopmusik

it was supposed to be my day off. i stayed up kind of late with toby making ends meet again, fixing everything that somehow was broken. we stayed up late and he had to get up at four thirty for work and i hardly even remember the alarm going off, let alone him leaving the house.

it was ten o'clock when one of the unnamed new kittens screamed. their mother, toy, the black stray that we let in before winter to have her second litter since we met her, was moving her kittens from the safe box in the corner of the living room to the corner of our bedroom under the bed.

and that simply won't do. those kittens scream a lot more than i remember summer's litter doing and the people here need their peaceful sleep.

so i was up and cold and naked pulling the bed away from the wall and scooping up kittens in white skinned hands, grumbling at the dog who insisted on jumping around and trying to sniff at them and at the mother who refuses to just leave the kittens in the box in the first place. six kittens later, and i was freezing and very much awake with no chance of going back to sleep on a most sleep friendly monday morning.

so, i got dressed and slid into my bump toe clogs and down vest and let the dog out.

we got some more snow today...something like three or four inches. i like the way the snow looks when it comes down in huge downy flakes like something from the movies. i especially love it when it happens in the day time so you can see it. i like the blanket that covers the front yard....until my dog runs around in it, which is even more fun to watch.

but it was so cold so we came in right away and had breakfast.

i accomplished quite a bit today, though, having gotten up so early. i set up an appointment to have my driver's license test (something i've been putting off for a good eight years now) and i filed my taxes.

(insert headache)

last year, i filed both my and toby's taxes online and it was so easy that i figured i'd do it again this year. so i got my w2s together and sat down at the machine for another zippy filing session. no such luck.

i have no idea what service i used last year and had no luck finding it. instead, i chose the only one that seemed to be working correctly (damn, you H and R Block and your horrible online system!! ). though a thorough service, i think it asked me way too many questions...things that you ask someone who makes more than 25k/year. i don't make that. not even close. so i was frustrated when they started asking me about dividends and schedule whateverthehecks.

so much for a nice afternoon entertaining visions of refund checks dancing in my head.

i finished it, though, and look forward to a hefty chunk of money coming my way. take that, uncle sam.

and no, i would not like to donate any money to the presidential campaign fund.....do they think we americans are all stupid? i mean...truly, given the way the last election went, who would donate a cent to that cause???

garf.

so, thankfully, my taxes are out of the way and i've only got toby's left to do. maybe the check will come before our trip next week. one can only hope.

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