Income Taxes

Are you thinking tax time yet?

I e-filed my tax returns over the week-end and it was a piece of cake.

Granted, we' re not talking about a huge income here, but I did discover I could get a bigger refund by itemizing my deductions. It was the tooth implant that did it!

I now have so many replacement parts that I'm practically new. I've had cataract surgery, a bladder uplift, a face lift, and now my first tooth implant. My tonsils and adenoids are gone. So is my gall bladder and appendix. They've seized a "fatty tumor" from my neck and biopsy-ed my breasts so many times, I'm down a full cup size. Today I'm running around with a heart monitor just to make sure every thing is ticking.

I consider myself lucky. My mother had false teeth in her thirties. I do not have a family background of healthy eating habits, exercise, and good physical care. Today's preventive health care is far superior to what was going on in the 1930' s.

So how did I start on taxes and end on health care? I think it' s the high cost of living.

Old Ladies

So what do old ladies do all day?

Well, I don't know about anybody else, but here's a sample of my day:

Got up early. Said my prayers, reading from A Course in Miracles.

Signed on the computer and checked my four web pages. Did a couple entries on MyItThings and then carried them forward or routed them to the other pages.

E-filed my State tax return.

Had an appointment at the local hospital at 7:45 am for an EKG and a heart monitor. (I had two crashes last week. One was the computer. The other was me.)

Left the hospital, stopped at McDonalds for hash browns and orange juice, and headed for my Silver Sneakers Yoga Class.

Namaste.

Home for some house cleaning and computing. (I play the games too.) My strategy is "Clean a room, play a game, clean a room, play a game." I used to play "Age of Empires" on line against the 12-year-old boys. (They didn't know I was a "girl".) I had to quit because I was getting too good and my experience points were matching me with the better players.

Met with friends for an hour at noon. The discussion centered on Love and Fear.

Lunch at Culver's.

The Salvation Army thrift store was my next stop. I volunteer there for an hour a day (four days a week). As I was dusting shelves, the newly installed heart monitor fell from my belt and stopped working. I had five electrodes pasted to my chest and belly but the readout was zip. If I wasn't walking around, I would have thought I died.

Home again. Note on the door that the UPS guy had been there with my new computer. He's coming back today. Write note to self to remember to stay home between 2 and 4.

Call the hospital - "Come back tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m."

By then I needed a pick-me-up. Went to my local shopping mall for a haircut, shampoo, and style.

Home to two recorded phone messages. Supper. Number Four Son phoned to see how the hospital stop went. I love those guys!

A little more computer, a little TV, and time for bed.

How was your day?