Taxing Endeavors
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hrjYesterday was Tax Day. For the last time, Mom and I filled out the partnership tax forms for the house then I got my own done. I'm just barely doing better than breaking even on the withholding this year -- unlike last year when I had to pay up big time. Now we have to draw up the papers dissolving the partnership (as of Jan 1) and deal with capital gains. Then next year I get to figure out fresh how to deal with all the house-related finances as a sole owner. (I plan to get professional help, at least for the first year.)
It's hard to believe that a week ago I was reveling in the Spring sunshine and now we're getting a dusting of snow on the local mountain peaks. No yard work today. We've had a fire going all weekend and the cat has been enjoying having warm bodies sleeping in the living room to cuddle with. We've been watching curling this afternoon (USA vs. Scotland ... uh ... 'scuse me, Great Britain). Many of the rules are still a mystery, but the skill is fascinating.
After a week of popping in and out, the parents will be leaving for parts north this evening and then eventually heading back home to the snowy east.
I made my plane reservations today for Kalamazoo in May. Now to get to work on my presentation for the conference!
It's hard to believe that a week ago I was reveling in the Spring sunshine and now we're getting a dusting of snow on the local mountain peaks. No yard work today. We've had a fire going all weekend and the cat has been enjoying having warm bodies sleeping in the living room to cuddle with. We've been watching curling this afternoon (USA vs. Scotland ... uh ... 'scuse me, Great Britain). Many of the rules are still a mystery, but the skill is fascinating.
After a week of popping in and out, the parents will be leaving for parts north this evening and then eventually heading back home to the snowy east.
I made my plane reservations today for Kalamazoo in May. Now to get to work on my presentation for the conference!
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Date: 2006-02-20 01:22 am (UTC)I am fascinated by the grace and skill in curling. It didn't look like that in Michigan when it was guys in snowsuits out on the lake, altho they might well have had it.
And, I confess, the girls/women were just more beautiful than the men. Something about gazelles or other... Odd, 'cause I don't feel that way about figure skaters.
Altho I think Ice Dancing is not nearly as strenuous as curling, lugeing (???), snowboarding, or even synchronized swimming. It's a sissy sport. And I never thought I'd hear myself say that about a sport.
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Date: 2006-02-20 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-02-20 10:36 pm (UTC)Swedish metal band Hammerfall doing a video with the Swedish Women's Olympic Curling Team
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Date: 2006-02-20 11:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-21 06:44 am (UTC)I rather like the challenge of trying to figure them out for myself based on the game action and the commentators' patter. I mean, it's not like it matters whether I understand them correctly. I'm quite content to hang suspended in that state of not knowing but gradually building bits of a picture until they all meet in the middle. It's funny: a lot of people seem to be at one end or the other of that scale. Two people turn on the tv and catch a show in the middle that neither has seen before -- the person at one end of the scale demands to be told what's going on ... and the person at the other end of the scale starts doing so!
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Date: 2006-02-21 06:51 am (UTC)