My accountant called to explain how the new tax laws impacted the bottom line of my 2018 return. Basically, I paid enough in taxes to support the full salary of an IRS Transcriber per https://payscale.com.
The difference between what I’m actually receiving as overpayment and what I expected to get back — based on prior years — equates to about the cost of a week-long stay at the Grand Floridian with park-hopper Disney passes for the duration. I doubt Donald Duck is a fan of Donald Trump right now. Daisy just wants to see Colette – she doesn’t care if we have to stay at Music City.
Sure, I’m plenty disappointed, but it could be worse. On the bright side, I have a job and so does the IRS Transcriber. BLUH!
Changing out all the metal mini blinds for modern cellular shades on every window in a house isn’t cheap — and it’s also no piece of cake to hang them. These suckers have three brackets each. Starting with the center one on the kitchen window, I thought it would be fun to hook the blind and see what the finished product would look like. Now, the blind is stuck and I can’t get it down to place the two other brackets.
Soooo… I figured I might as well try out a valance I already have to see what it would look like. Thinking it was just too much for a smaller window I took it back down, but in the process, I accidentally pulled the curtain bracket partially out of the wall. I opted to unscrew those brackets from the wall and wait until the kitchen cabinets are painted to choose a curtain. That’s when I realized that behind the brackets is bright blue paint and I don’t have even one brush full of paint left in the color the room is now.
As I’m staring at that, I realize that if I paint the cabinets, I should probably also paint the window trim… and if the window trim is painted, the door jams and baseboards should also be painted. ARG!
NONE of this would’ve mattered in 1968.
Sent to me by Sherry (Brumett) Bridges, this is from her mother’s ledger of checks written in 1968 — a little over 50 years ago.
I wonder what Mrs. Brumett got in groceries from my Dad for $3.95 when her electric bill for the month was less than $9.00, her phone bill was less than $7.00, and her house payment was a whopping $25 bucks. I’ll betcha that $13.00 doctor bill that she didn’t care about the color of her cabinets so long as they were clean.
In a matter of only a few minutes this morning, I’ve found out that I’ve been hacked AND I’m pretty much a houseplant.
Yesterday was my first day back on the treadmill after the shingles fiasco. I know my aging body needs exercise — I can’t sit here at my computer and work 24/7, you guys. This popped up on Facebook at the same time I was putting on shoes to start my treacherous trail to nowhere:
To complicate emotions even further, I was notified by a hacker that my email account was used on a porn site with spyware that activated my camera and recorded me while watching the porn (doing who knows what!). Unless I pay in bitcoins ($1000 USD) within 2 days these videos will be sent to all my contacts — friends, family, and colleagues. OH MY!
This person is not a hacker — or at least not a very good one — because the email account the blackmail threat was sent to is only used for sending newsletters; it’s certainly not been used to visit any porn sites; and the computer I use is a Mac Pro — without a camera or microphone.
Because I slept till almost noon today (no. really.) what’s in my head within this first waking hour is profound.
The McKain family has been a whole lot of democrats for generations. Imagine my surprise when an older cousin posted an anti-democrat themed graphic today on Facebook. This is the very cousinthat publicly stated at a funeral, “As children, we believed we were the Kennedy family only poorer.“
The graphic shared was a photo of Saddam Hussein with the following quote, “We cannot defeat America by the sword. America must be defeated within their politics.” This was followed by, “He was telling the truth and this is exactly what the Democrats are doing by seating one Muslim at a time.“
I couldn’t find any verification via Google that the dude actually said that (doesn’t mean he didn’t), but for the sake of what I’m sharing, that isn’t what’s important.
What matters is that when a Kennedy turns against the Democrats, the entire future of the party is in trouble.
I read an article today about the perfect room temperature for sleeping like a baby. The article suggested your bedroom should be between 60°F and 63°F.
I do like my heat turned down at night — but that’s turned down to 67°F… not 60°F! Not only can I not imagine being comfortable at that temperature in the winter, but I REALLY can’t imagine what an electric bill would look like in July.
I can’t even remember where I found the crazy article now — but it was probably some click-bait alongside how to lose 25 pounds in 3 days. This is one room that will NOT be 60°F tonight… SNOW is coming. (Yippee!)
