!#&% E-FILE

So I'm going about my business filing my taxes.
They ask if I want to E-file?
I think to myself, well ok we can try, but last year it didn't work.
I push the button.
yup, they won't let me.
So I think to myself, what the heck is wrong????
They refer me to the IRS.
Oh no, I get to sit on hold for ever...
So they tell me that my Birthday is wrong and to call Social Security.
More waiting on hold...
Ahh, when I changed my name, eeons ago, when I got married someone put it in wrong!!
Can you believe that?
How fun for me.
I got to spend an hour and a half in a room full of strangers and screaming kids.
Did I say a stuffy crowded room? yeah it was.
Cat came with me, she got to change her name to her married name.
We got so bored that we named the people behind the glass.
Moustache man
Big guy
Perky girl
Only 3 windows were open. 3!
It was so much fun!!
Really.
I was called first.
Cat was called after me.
She was done before me.
*sigh*
Oh well, all done now!
Oh, BTW, did I mention that the IRS did not get out taxes from last year?
Yup, they said, well it looks here like you attempted to file 4 times, but it never worked.
I had printed and mailed them out, grrr!
I get to do that again too!
Do ya think I will get to e-file this time??

7 things...

I've been tagged...

7 things I can do: organize, hug, color code my closet, cook/bake, put my makeup on with out a mirror while driving, laugh, garden.

7 things I can't do: 10 key with out looking, play an instrument, sing, play guitar hero, travel(the way I want to), take amazing pictures, let go of my girls.

7 things that attracted me to Brad: smile, love for adventure, creative style, passion for design, his ironed shirts, we could talk all night (still do!), unwavering testimony of Jesus Christ.

7 things I say often: did you do the dishes?, who fed the cats?, that's so funny!, is your homework done?, I love you *hugs*, where is your father?, thanks :D.

7 favorite foods: Nutella, Diet Coke, anything Italian, Prime Rib, Broccoli, my Creme Brule, Eggs Benedict.

7 people to tag: Jess, Cat, Liz, Bear, Amy, my old friend Megan, Teresa, Carrot won't cuz she's too fast!! lol

The 7th person is any of you reading this, if you don't have a blog post it in a comment!! GOTCHA!!

That was fun!!

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Norstrom has free stuff!

I am re doing my BLOG!

Reconnecting

Reconnecting with people from the past can be so fun!
Facebook has been a wonderful tool for that.
How strange it to have people that at one time of your life were involved in the day to day and now it seems we have not talked in years, some as much as 20 years!
I believe and always have believed that people come in and out of ones life for a reason.
Example, one person who I have recently found on line was instrumental in my conversion to the LDS religion. His son and I dated, he and his wife were so kind to me at a point in my life when I really needed a "family example" to be around.
Another gal I found was not a super close friend in HS, she was in the "A" crowd and I was the wanna be. I used to think she did not like me, maybe she did I don't know. I can tell you this, I would not want my daughters to hang out with who I was then. I am such a changed person, but in some ways still the crazy Italian I have always been.
Another person I have been trying to find was a super close friend of mine while I was a nanny in Connecticut.I spent so much time with her and her family, again still trying to stay close to the family thing.
I have found High School friends, who I have not talked to since the 80's! These people have all been living life, getting married, having babies, going to college, starting careers, buying homes all the same stuff we all do. Life just has a way of intertwining our roots, and sometimes we meet up and sometimes we don't. I hope that this year I can say that I have made a difference in the lives of those around me, those I am reconnecting with, and those I have yet to meet.

Pictures!

So Brad and I are the lucky ones who bought Amy's fantastic, amazing camera!!

January I am going to take a Photography class with Amy! Since Brad already has a minor from the U of U in photography, I need to catch up so I can learn how to use this big bad camera, I can't wait.

Here are a few random pictures since Christmas Eve...