Also, yay, hockey playoff season!
Ugh. Now until June our house becomes all Hockey all the time. Or rather, Hockey or Deadliest Catch.
Simon: I swear when it's appropriate. Kaylee: Simon, the whole point of swearing is that it ain't appropriate.
'Jaynestown'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Apr 15, 2009 4:06:01 pm PDT #15411 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
aurelia - Apr 15, 2009 4:18:19 pm PDT #15412 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Is there some point and/or logic to this that I'm just not seeing?
McQueen, a 44-year-old litigation consultant and CNN iReporter, said he had no problem with paying taxes.
"But when no can tell us where this amount of money is going, no one can sketch it out for us, just seems like an injustice," he said.
"All I hear about [from the Obama administration] is how [it values] 'transparency, transparency,' but I don't see that. ... That's a joke," he said. "I did my taxes this year, and I noticed that I'm paying as much in taxes as I did the first year I got out of college."
"I don't have a deep political leaning," he said. "Now, what is a normal citizen supposed to do?
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If he's paying the same amount in taxes as he did 20ish years ago what is he complaining about?
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 15, 2009 4:24:11 pm PDT #15413 of 30000
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
Because of lackof a pre-nup, the STBX-Mrs. Gibson could get half a billion.
Please tell me there's a gay Jewish Divorce Court judge in the district where they're filing...
sarameg - Apr 15, 2009 4:25:12 pm PDT #15414 of 30000
Hate school funding cuts when it isn't proportional to the student body. I'd been watching CA with trepidation because I expected it was coming.
Hey lisah! Where's the nearest goodwill donation location in the area?
I've resorted to scotch. I just can't cope with being this tense and shaky and queasy for all of the next 39+ hours. At which point a new kind of shaky and tense will take over. I've still to hurdle withdrawing all that money I've been saving for years.
sarameg - Apr 15, 2009 4:26:43 pm PDT #15415 of 30000
The amazing thing is my skin? Is being FLAWLESS.
Lee - Apr 15, 2009 4:49:45 pm PDT #15416 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
So excited. VOGS VOGS VOGS!!!
Sooo tempted to come down to LA.
lisah - Apr 15, 2009 4:50:04 pm PDT #15417 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Hey lisah! Where's the nearest goodwill donation location in the area?
hmmm I've gone to the one out in Towson on Joppa. There may be one closer though.
Beverly - Apr 15, 2009 4:52:44 pm PDT #15418 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Sarameg, I hyperventilated over the size of the checks I was writing. It didn't seem real. When the dust cleared though, we had the keys. And a county tax bill.
You'll be fine.
sarameg - Apr 15, 2009 4:59:11 pm PDT #15419 of 30000
The check, I think, bothers me less than all the logistics. WHICH ARE FREAKING ME OUT, btw. It helps that I'd anticipated wiping out 90% of my savings and that's not the case. Just half. Or so. Made more sense in the near term and while it is more in the long, that's the very long. Next decade it gives me a lot more breathing room. But trying to juggle all the timing and did I mention I don't have movers yet because none of the quote requests have come back and fuck if I'm moving that sewing machine myself and I forgot the fax # for water at work and trashcans and blinds still not got and and and.
Yeah, I'm a case.
eta: wait, Bev, you've already done closing?! Also, me nsm with graceful transitions.
But the scotch has dulled the shaking.
Juliebird - Apr 15, 2009 5:16:21 pm PDT #15420 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Eleventh hour taxes are done, happy with my return (as opposed to previous years when the H&R Block fee was more than I was getting back).
Still haven't gotten a hold of New Landlady and am still afeared that I'll end up paying two rents in May. It's all my fault, really. If I wasn't such a flake and was able to equate "give us two months notice" with "from the time you give us notice you are obligated to pay us two months rent". Which, how the fuck am I to know that I'm going to find a place and it be ready to move two months before I find the place and get a move-in date?!
It's all good, I have more time to ready the old place for inspection.