The Tax Man is my nemesis

Ugh... thank goodness

We often come back around to the discussion that goes something like this: " we make more money than a lot of people around us, how 'come we never have any money?"
I have a feeling we will continue to have this conversation for some time... thanks uncle sam.

76

Two days ago was my grandmother's seventy-third birthday. I sent her flowers, wanted her to know I was thinking of her and how important she is to me. I can never remember if her address ends in lane or drive, so i decided to look it up. googlemaps and mapquest had no such address so I figured I would just google her to see if the sales announcement for her house was listed... nothing... but I did find her on a website called peoplefinder.com. It listed her as living in Merrimack, NH and aged 73. but then it had two little names next to hers (possible relations): Dana age 76 and Julie age 56. weird. dana was my grandfather who passed away almost 20 years ago, at the age of 57. it was so weird to see that he would be 76 if he were still alive and that according to some database somewhere he is 76. What would he be like at 76?

dci

You know when you laugh so hard that you cry? well, that was us tonight at the Palace 9 movie theater.
I guess I should start at the beginning... the other day i was looking online at 7 days for a mortgage seminar that noelle had told me about, saying that it was a hit because it had free food. yeah well, i didn't find the seminar listed but i found this contest to win free movie tickets for the movies at the film festival. many of the movies had already had their drawings, but i just entered us to win ANY movie tickets. sure enough, about an hour later I got an email saying that i had won the tickets. yahoo, i thought (having been my second win of the kind since moving to vermont). so i looked up the title and found that the movie would be about a drumming competition. i'm thinking TaiKO drummingthen I thought maybe it would be like STOMP... i loved that show.

nope. it was not about that kind of drumming....it was this kind of drumming.





http://www.dci.org/

but that wasn't the funny part.... it was kinda cool once we realized what the hell we were watching. the funny part was there was a room of spectators watching old film of drum corp and rating them, and there were these two announcers who said thing like, "that brought a tear to my eye." I was like what the hell is this?

it was a great night.... unexpectedly great.

mothers day

celebrating mothers day with my family felt empowering. i watched my mom and grammy closely as we ate lunch together. these are the women who raised me, who molded me and influenced me to be the woman i am today. i hope that i can take what i learned and become the best mom that i can be.

Teetering

you know it is a bad sign when your dog's daycare provider tells you that you seem stressed. Alas, I am stressed, and evidently, I am also transparent. Too much is going on this week, especially given that it is the week before vacation, but no doubt, it is exactly as the universe intended, for won't it feel like I hit the jackpot to have a whole and half off?? So the meetings, and the assessments, and the evaluations, and the paperwork will all just melt away as of Friday and I will have an abundance of things to look forward to; friends, family and some long awaited time to relax and spend outdoors.
I liken this week to riding a bicycle straight up hill. Your legs burn and so many times you have to talk yourself out of turning around and cruising down hill. But I know the the pinnacle is in sight and soon I will be able to feel the cool breeze through my hair as I give my weary legs a break.

opaque and permanent

there have been countless times in my life when i felt completely invisible. i've often felt as though no one in a crowded room even knew i was there. All of that changed when i fell for this beautiful redhead. she always sees me.
so now i am looking forward to forever with a woman who makes all the difference, she un-does all that. She truly is the heat that forces the words written in lemon juice to magically appear.