What an ostentatious title!
Really, what this is about is the fact that cleaning house can change so much all around you. Mom is pretty interested in Feng Shui, mainly as a way to make the living and working environments more comfortable. Now that the weather has improved so much, we have been able to take a serious look at our front and back porches and realized they were cluttered, covered in dead leaves, and unwelcoming. Mom spearheaded a cleanup of not only the porches, but the entrances and hallways, reasoning that chi can't flow where angels fear to tread. After we finished those areas I got three bookings for freelance work! Apparently those sections of the house are the "career" portions.
Clutter is the enemy of any prosperity - clean up and see what happens!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Does it get any better?
Sun! Glorious sunshine! I'm healing from the rickets as we speak!
It's been absolutely beautiful over the past few days. The snow is virtually gone, the air smells deliciously fresh, and Daniel has apparently been getting high off of it. He smiles all day, shares and takes turns eagerly, and 5 times a day he throws his arms around me and says "Mom, you're the best!" Catie is doing really well too - they're just so pleasant to deal with right now!
And to cap my blissful mood, the IRS sent me a letter to let me know that they owed me more money! Apparently I used the wrong Social Security number for Catie 2 years in a row. (How? I made a 3 into an 8 last year, and when I looked up the number for this year I just used last years return for the reference.) The amounts were so close to what I had figured that I just got it wrong. After all, this year it was only off by $3.27 - but it turns out that there was something extra that I hadn't known to file - a schedule M. So even though I didn't have full credit for my kids, I still nearly had the same refund as I had figured because the IRS filed a schedule M for me. (What is a schedule M? Dunno. Comes after L, I guess. Actually it's something called "Making Jobs Work", which gives low income folks even more back.)
Taking into account the extra owed from this year and last year, I'm going to get an additional $445 that I hadn't even planned on! I know, it was mine all along, but I'm just excited that it's coming to me!
SO - great weather, happy kids, unexpected money, lots of massage bookings - does it get any better than this?
It's been absolutely beautiful over the past few days. The snow is virtually gone, the air smells deliciously fresh, and Daniel has apparently been getting high off of it. He smiles all day, shares and takes turns eagerly, and 5 times a day he throws his arms around me and says "Mom, you're the best!" Catie is doing really well too - they're just so pleasant to deal with right now!
And to cap my blissful mood, the IRS sent me a letter to let me know that they owed me more money! Apparently I used the wrong Social Security number for Catie 2 years in a row. (How? I made a 3 into an 8 last year, and when I looked up the number for this year I just used last years return for the reference.) The amounts were so close to what I had figured that I just got it wrong. After all, this year it was only off by $3.27 - but it turns out that there was something extra that I hadn't known to file - a schedule M. So even though I didn't have full credit for my kids, I still nearly had the same refund as I had figured because the IRS filed a schedule M for me. (What is a schedule M? Dunno. Comes after L, I guess. Actually it's something called "Making Jobs Work", which gives low income folks even more back.)
Taking into account the extra owed from this year and last year, I'm going to get an additional $445 that I hadn't even planned on! I know, it was mine all along, but I'm just excited that it's coming to me!
SO - great weather, happy kids, unexpected money, lots of massage bookings - does it get any better than this?
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