Plays Well With Others

Monetary Matters …

For those of us that are a part of the working class, it’s that time of the year again when taxes are due – Monday by midnight they need to be in the mail and off to your local taxman. If you haven’t done them yet, erm … have a fun weekend.

Wifey™ and I did then about a month ago, and probably spent a good couple of hours pulling together all of our paperwork and doing the taxes online at Turbotax.com. I used to actually buy the program and install it in my computer but found that it takes up hard disk space and eventually you end up with a ton of turbotaxes installed on your computer from every year. So doing it online frees up that disk space and at the same time, you KNOW it’s the most up to date version. Anyhow, after few hours we completed our tax returns and found that we’d be getting back over $3000 in tax money.

We think it had to do with some of the new marriage taxes law changes, along with the fact that I didnt hardly work last year. I figure that if I get married AND take five months off every year, I should be set. It’s probably the biggest refund to-date that I’ve ever received from the IRS.

While doing the taxes, we found a few things funny. Like the fact that they want you to report every single dime you got during the year. Even if you recycled cans and got back a buck fifty in change, they want you to report it. Or if your kid got any money, they want it reported. Erm. Even the refund you got last year from your taxes, they want it reported. It’s incredible.

Anyhow, our bank account it bulging right now – it’s enough for us to pay off one of our bills. It’s very good news.

Just the other day I found out that one of my friends is pregnant. It’s almost surreal. I remember when I was in my mid-twenties and friends started to get engaged and then married. There was one year I went to six weddings in one year. It’s a strange time in one’s life.

There’s that whole period of time when you are in school all the time – from 5 to 18. Then there’s that period where you are in your college years – from 19 to 22 or 23. And then there’s the rest of your life. I swear from age 20 on up, life just starts going faster. It seemed like 5 to 18 lasted forever, but the last ten years has just flown by. It’s almost like a dream. From age 23 on up, more and more of your friends will start to get engaged and by the time you are 25 or 26 quite a few of your friends are married and just about everytime you go out it’s a “couples” thing. Ugh. Then a few years go by and at about 28 or 29 the babies start coming around. That’s where I’m at now. The baby stage. Wifey™ and I have about a year before we start down that road – according to our master plan, but as with life, anything can happen.

In a perfect world, we’d like to buy a house before we start up the baby machine. We actually went to look at places last month. It was kind of exciting and kind of miserable. Miserable because we knew that living in the land of half a million dollar cracker jack boxes, e had no chance in hell of ever affording a home and everything we looked at was WAY THE HELL out of our price range or our mortgage payments would be around $4000 a month. Erm. Like we can even begin to afford that. Exciting because we actually found something we could afford – in about a year. It’s a brand new two story, three bedroom home with all the cool touches we’d like. It’s far from our dream house, but definately more than we thought we’d be able to get as our first home. We’ll have to see how it all works out in a year.

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