Tax class is over tomorrow. The material itself isn't bad...in fact it's interesting to finally see more of the tax world than the ol 1040EZ...The manner of teaching the material leaves a little to be desired though. I don't plan on taking the advanced class anymore...unless i find myself with absolutely nothing to do that week. With everyone currently brewing I find that possibility far removed from reality. What with class, ruck marching, dinner, and some hours in the office at night, I didn't get "off work" until 2000 yesterday.

Picked up this amazing dragon figurine today for $30. It's a foot tall! Isn't it always the case that as *soon* as you try to stick to a budget, that's when everything rears up...new running shoes, oil changes, nick knacks...It wasn't even an option to pass this baby u though. Normally you see something like this for $100+ and I have *always* lusted after the ones I've seen. I took a picture of it and hope to have the roll developed soon. Just beautiful. It will make a stunning companion piece to the ceramic eagle I left back in the States.

I ordered a diet coke today at lunch. I actually went out to eat and ORDERED a diet soda! WOrse still, I'm actually getting accustomed to the taste of saccharin. God I feel old. Had to call my Judge Advocate at her home last night and I mentioned something about feeling old...which she rebutted. I thanked her for that...

freaky.

I can't believe the fires in Australia are STILL BURNING!! How horrible! What kind of people are capable of DOING that sort of thing? 

current mood:  restless
current music: TV 

biffah 
2002-01-09 03:40
lol....yeah, i order diet cokes out, and everytime i do, i remember when i was younger, and thinking that only old and sad housewives ordered drinks like tab and diet coke. and i'm sitting there thinking, am i now one of them?! 

but, yeah, it's almost 6 a.m. here and i haven't had an ounce of sleep, so i'm sure this will all be amusing reading for yourself! night.

rainingvodka 
2002-01-09 20:07 
Diet Coke Anonymous. 
Picture it...a circle of men and women sitting in collapsable chairs, all of them fidgeting, glancing around nervously...gauging ages. It's a stark white room with nothing but the people to look at. A man stands up... 
"My name is Glen...and I drink diet coke." 
There is a scattering of applause, murmurs of sympathy, and much head nodding... 

God that feels so delightfully obscene somehow.

jentwo 
2002-01-10 13:06 
Hey!! What about diabetics??!!

rainingvodka 
2002-01-10 14:50 
What *about* diabetics? Trying to insinuate that they can skate the "old person" image that way? 

bah! humbug!

jentwo 
2002-01-10 15:49 
Uh, I would certainly hope so! 

You just added another 6 months in therapy for me, ya know. I'm trying so hard to fight the feeling that, by being diabetic, I am the image most people have of their diabetic grandparent who died after their amputated foot became gangrenous. Wanting no part of that, I deny and ignore my diabetes and only do what's absolutely necessary to feel normal in a single day, while neglecting to do other things that, if continued to be put off, will inevitably lead to my demise! 

Thanks, Glenbaby. ;-P
  
rainingvodka 
2002-01-10 18:44 
Um...I meant skating the old person image because they were drinking diet stuff...not that they were drinking sugarless stuff...because they couldn't have sugar, not because they had to have diet stuff. 

somehow I'm thinking this is a hard one to explain correctly so I'll just let you scratch your head and puzzle over it with your shrink during those extra six months in therapy :P

taliana 
2002-01-09 09:39 
The good ol 1040EZ is about as close to anything having to do with taxes as I want to get. Yer brave. ;)

rainingvodka 
2002-01-09 20:13
Actually it isn't all that bad, the 1040A and 1040. Basically, however, if yer single, no children, and not going to school, you won't get any additional relief out of itemizing deductions or calculating credits. 

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