I'm a bit jangly myself - woke up from a semi-nightmare where the landlord was trying to sell the house out from under us, sneaking in people to see the apartments while we were out, et cetera. And work had instituted some really bogus travel expense rules that were screwing over just about all the workers.

This despite having owned my own house for 7 years now! And not having worked at my old job for nearly a year!

oh FNL. I'm sad now because if that's it for the season let alone possibly being IT forever, there's too much left untidied. I must know.

Just did my taxes. What my taxes proved to me is that I should really fix my withholdings because I'm getting a lot back.

Good god. I went to college with him. We did theater together. I....it's weird that people watch him? That he's semi-famous??

So you were the one bogarting all the cute soon-to-be-famous guys in college! The only semi-famous person I went to school with was Donny Kershawarz, and we loathed each other in junior high.

In last night's special Mike B did a riff on forgetting he was the celebrity partner at a charity golfing event and getting excited speculating with the other people about what famous person they might get. Then it sank in...

Timelies all!

I don't think I went to school with anyone even semi-famous. Ah, well...

This conversation is making me want to empty my savings and pay off all my credit card debt. Hrm.

I just have to remember that I'll want to move semi-soon, so I should keep cash on hand for that, because it's a big enough chunk that it would take a long time to pay back on a credit card.

So, I'm making half of this ropa vieja recipe. Except I forgot to halve the liquids. Even worse, I thought the recipe called for a big can of tomatoes, when it called for a small can of tomatoes, so I have like a million times more tomatoes than is called for. I forsee hours of simmering in my future.

This conversation is making me want to empty my savings and pay off all my credit card debt.

I know. I might have to do that today. I did just file my taxes. Not as big a refund as I was expecting, because I had a penalty from some money I took out of a 401k for house buying purposes. But still a little something coming my way, so that's good.

I forsee hours of simmering in my future.

Or ropa vieja soup!

I did not mean to look at anything political this morning- it was an accident Guess who's budget is taking all the money our of RIF

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thanks George

I was fantasizing what I would do with $5K just yesterday. Last fall, I saw a painting I loved that was $3200 so I would buy that, and split the rest on my debt and mortgage.

Art's an investment, right?