I ROCK!

FINALLY finished my CDN taxes!! And I don't owe anything, I actually am getting a refund!

This is happy news because when I used online software to calculate my taxes "they" royally screwed it up & had me OWING over $1200! On only 7 months of employment! I nearly had another birth story to write up, but this one would have included a cow!

My dad was helping me out very much but I didn't have the time to sit down and get it re-done. He had found a few glaring errors that needed correcting...last night I sat down at 10:30pm to redo them...and the SOFTWARE SUCKS ASS.

I finally gave up & asked for help as I was only making my balance owed LARGER by trying to correct my mistakes. Matias & my dad hovered over me & tried to figure out what *I* was doing wrong - ahem - it was NOT me, it was the software not being able to handle my "non-resident + CDN income - no foreign taxable income" status. We went through the forms manually after printing them all out (really need a REAL printer) & decided at 1am to go to bed & finish it up for real, by hand, with a calculator & a pen.

As soon as Liam went down for his nap, I started going through all 15 pages of it - complete with Schedule A, Schedule 10 & Schedule 1 forms (can I get a WTF?) - and FOUND THE SOFTWARE'S ERROR! I was so excited I celebrated with a cigarette & a call to my dad (who is driving to Cary right now...) to tell him I found their goddamn error!

I know you are dying to know what it was - not only did they tax my CDN income BUT they also "claimed" that I had foreign income that needed to be taxed & collected on behalf of the CDN government! Income that I DO NOT HAVE! And nowhere in the software was I EVER asked/prompted/given the option to add any foreign income! BASTARDS! And since the software doesn't supply you with all the various Schedules & Forms to complete/punch in your numbers there was NO WAY TO CHANGE IT! We could NOT figure out where they were getting this number from - but the math genius that I am figured it out - of course I figured it out by READING but still, I figured it out nonetheless!

Take that stupidstupid software fuckers!

Just so you know

I can sit here and blog all night while listening/watching DMB. I can blather on about just about anything they do, say, look, touch, move, gesture.

"well I am swimming in your seas & in your oceans"

also, Matias has mentioned to me in a very cute, subtle Matias way that he "misses" having me around him in his office space/basement. We would normally always be together, listening to music, talking about music, bothering each other about this that & the other but now that my office is upstairs that has not been happening...sometimes we just sit on the veranda (front porch) and talk it all out but without the soundtrack of Our Life playing behind us & we both miss that.

and to quote Dave from earlier in the show (I had to write it on a post it note & stick it to my monitor) during Pig - "just look for love in here - no more hate"

Favorite New Song - REALLY LATE!

I only went to 3 shows last summer, 1 pregnant & two in CVille - not too shabby but we didnt really become too familiar with the "new" songs live. But discussing it tonight & now watching it on a nice bootleg DVD, I can say that The Idea of You is my favorite.

Sittin on my front stair
Waiting for you, sit
Step off the bus again and again
When I was in my head
The way that I don’t care, hey
But you got me feelin’ like a kid
I’m not really that way
So I’m not gonna pull your hair

I fall so hard inside the idea of you
That’s why with you can say what I mean
Wanna stay but I believe
God get me out of here
I fall so hard inside the idea of you

Oh and drunk oh me
Oh
I’ve got you up again
Tell you what you can, I say
I wish I was a king and you were my queen
It’d be ok all the way back then
But oh I’m not your kid
So I’m not gonna kick you in the shins

I fall so hard inside the idea of you
That’s why with you can say what I mean
Wanna stay but I believe
God get me out of here
I fall so hard inside the idea of you

Hope that you can
Bus stop
Just a kid but swear I’m thinking
Wash my mouth out with the table water
I know it’s wrong of me but I can’t stop
My head oh
Oh, Oh, Yea, Yea, Yea

Now, yea
I fall so hard inside the idea of you
That’s why with you can say what I mean
Wanna stay but I believe
God get me out of here
I fall so hard inside the idea of you

and fucking god bless Rashawn. I REALLY just want to take him home in my pocket & have him be my pet.

I think this song is really Pure not "clean" pure but Innocent & True Pure and that's what really attracts me to it. The sing-song way the words and music flow just force a smile upon my face & I always instantly grab for Matias' hand when I hear this song. It makes me want to hold hands, you know? Some other songs make you want to do "other things" but this song is just so sweet and pure, I just want to lie back on the grass on a nice spring day and hold hands.

oh lord, Crash just came on. For some reason Matias started calling me every time this song came on when we were apart...now it's kind of our Thing...and plus it's one of the only songs I can sing to Liam without having the music playing...

...lost for you, I'm so lost for you...

Rings a bell

I was reading the Washington Post's article about the VA Tech shooter's family response when I tripped upon a familiar name - Wade Smith - he is their lawyer from Raleigh. The name immediately struck a cord with me & I started wondering aloud how I knew him. I thought maybe he was John Edwards' partner or something like that until I googled him.

He was the lawyer in the Fatal Vision trial. And I recognized him by name. From a decades old murder that I have a mild fascination with, to say the least.

Matias just laughed at me when I finally figured it out.

Amazing, if I do say so myself

I took this picture from the CAR while stopped at a red light.

Shocker!

**NEWSFLASH**

I AM WEARING A PAIR OF PRE-PREGNANCY CAPRIS IN MY OLD SIZE RIGHT NOW!!!

You have no idea how excited I am - esp. since I'm not only wearing them but they arent killing me!!

CELEBRATE!