I Love Tax Season!!!!

I'm not being sarcastic.

Tax season means I put all of our records together, take them to our local tax preparer, and wait with baited breath to see how much we are going to be able to spend on "fun stuff".

I know, I know. We should not use the IRS as our savings account. We should be putting our money into other more profitable areas throughout the year so that it can earn interest and work for us. The IRS gets to use our money all year long and then give us back a portion of what it took from us throughout the year.

I know this stuff.

But let me just say, the money I have "working for me" right now is suffering quite a blow in the work ethic department. In fact, it seems to be on a diet right now. It just keeps wasting away.

This being said, I love tax season.

Troy decided last spring to move our office from the basement/dungeon to one of the guest rooms upstairs. I was more than happy to follow this plan because it meant a chance to decorate with his cooperation. I bought paint the same green as the summer aspen leaves outside the new office window. We painted in August 2008. And there it sat. A big green room full of mismatched Target/IKEA furniture. Until tax season!!!!!

We used our much loved tax return to buy office furniture. Not just any office furniture but a nice golden oak wall unit with a dual desk that Troy and I share and a bookcase and file cabinet against the other wall.

Troy loves maps and has several framed. These maps plus the globe I bought him for Christmas will be the decor. It looks very rich. Not in a money way, but in a deep, solid kind of way. As soon as we finish the final touches of decor, I'll post pics.

I love Tax Season!!!!!

You're the Inspiration?

I told Troy I wanted to write on my blog. I had many ideas, but no inspiration to get started. He stared at me with a look of exasperation.

I finally said, "What?"

He then proceeded to hold his arms high, and point down at himself. I just rolled my eyes. It was all I could do not to break out in a sad, sad imitation of Chicago singing, "You're the Inspiration".

Okay, can't help it......"When you love somebody till the end of time.....When you love somebody....always on my (mind)....No one needs you more than I."

Oooooo.....Shiny!

I'm a little bit ADD. Definitely not ADHD. Not a hyperactive bone in my body.

I told Troy about a funny sign I saw recently. It said, "I'm not easily distracted, I'm just.......Oooooo, Shiny!"

Troy asked if I realized that was totally me. I do, I do realize this.

This aspect of my personality has both pros and cons and they are equally important. The positives of this personality trait are that I tend not to dwell on unpleasant things very long. I don't obsess about things. I have varied interests. The consequences of the trait are kind of the flip side to the positives. I'm not detailed oriented because I don't pay enough attention to any one thing to see the details. Many things in my life are left undone because something else was more interesting at the moment. Immediate gratification is a huge downfall of this ADD personality.

Take this blog post, for example, I started off writing about a funny trip to Best Buy in search for a new laptop for me and it's turned into a dissertation about the advantages and disadvantages of ADD.

Okay, back to the original plan.

I've been jealous of Troy's two (count them two) very light, very easy to maneuver laptops for quite sometime. He brings them from the upstairs office to the den often. They taunt me. I have a laptop. But 10 minutes of the 12 pound sharp edged monstrosity in my lap and my legs are going numb! I've mentioned that I wanted a new laptop several times. Troy told me that when we found a good one for less than $500, we would get it. I had given up on it. (Actually, I forgot about it.) But Troy found a great buy on a Dell Inspiron for $499. So off we went to Best Buy.

Troy is checking out all the "specs" of the laptops on display. I, of course, was checking out bells and whistles. Finally, we saw the one we were looking for. Troy is rambling on about all the advantages of this one as compared to the other laptops we looked at. He noticed I was temporarily speechless. He looked up at me to see what was wrong. I was staring at the sleek, reflective, SIX POUND, vision of a laptop. All I could say was, "Ooooo.....Shiny!"

And here I sit on my comfy couch in the living room, listening to my music, drinking a bottle of water and writing on my new, light, laptop. And, it's shiny!

Today Show Conspiracy???

We've all pondered the conspiracy regarding the ratio of hot dog buns to wieners. I'm past that. Just buy enough to equal it out. Put your basic math skills to use!

I have another, more sinister, conspiracy theory...

I think the Today Show is part of a plot to rob mere mortal women of morning time.

Don't get me wrong. I love the Today Show. (I loved it more before Katie left.) But I still love it. Subconsciously, I've known of this theory for quite some time. I have purposely not turned on the Today Show in the morning so that I could not get sucked into the time warp.


Have you ever noticed that when watching the TS, time goes by without notice????

The TS parent company is GE (General Electric). Is it possible that they have built a time machine they are trying out on unsuspecting women everywhere????

Did Katie find out and threaten to do an exclusive report on the plot????


I've tried recording the TS to watch it later in the day. It's not the same. I'm not as susceptible to their GE wave transmissions when I'm wide awake.

So what do you think? Is the TS a worm hole in the space-time continuum?

Or have I been watching too many Lost episodes?