ita, that's insult to injury to insult. At least you got to earn interest on it?

My parents got slammed with a penalty one year due to somethingorother they missed. They seemed to have sorted that out.

scrappy, ouch. But yay doing better than expected!

Damned, someone must've slipped some pollyanna in my ginger ale.

mac is feeling so much better, but wakes up from naps feeling really bad all over again. I know he is feeling better though, because he is requesting food.

Due to the DH having a very good freelance year, our tax bill is going to clean out our entire savings account.

Talk about good news/bad news! I was lucky that the one year I got a bunch of my income on 1099s (right?), I was also in school, so I got credit for that.

How do cream soups freeze? I think I have more asparagus than I'm going to want to eat right away.

I'd be wary of freezing cream soups -- I suspect that the fat in the cream will go all globby and separated. On the other hand, you could do a veg puree (which I'm certain will freeze brilliantly) and then add the cream only when you reheat it later.

amych is wise.

Now my brain has no idea how to read her nick.

In my head, it's clearly Amy-See-Aitch, which is first name and last initials. But since I don't have winning vote on this, you're welcome to read it however it makes sense to you!

Pretty much all of my income is 1099. I just finished filling out my extension and will hopefully get my taxes done in the next three weeks. I'm guessing I'll owe between $15,000 and $20,000 but I wouldn't be shocked it if were higher.

half the time I make it into a word, but names on boards are not things to ever be said outloud - only in one's head. (unless your using your real name, natch)

Huh. Delta and Northwest are merging. Not sure I think that's a good omen (though, really, could either of them get more pain in the ass?)

The merger will free up all their redundant personnel to help with dedicated research on new and original ways to inconvenience customers.