Not Quite What I Had Planned

Yesterday was such a productive day which I planned on continuing into today. Then the phone rang early this morning. It was the school saying that school was canceled for today. Snow Days, oh how I hate them. Weekends are bad enough especially when Jim's working, but during the week when I'm only supposed to have the two at home! Mayjor suckage. Joyce Meyer always says, "Life is what happens when you have other things planned". Jim tries to irritate me by quoting that.

One of those unplanned things has me feeling a little funky. We got a letter from the IRS the other day. In 2009 we paid off a credit card and they took off the amount of the interest and penalties so all that was left was the original balance. We did automatic monthly payments until it was paid. The letter from the IRS says that the amount taken off we now owe tax on in the amount of $900. They're looking at that amount we didn't have to pay as if it were income. Now I'm not very savvy with this kind of stuff so maybe that won't surprise any of you, but it was definitely not something I had planned on having to deal with. I'd like to think it's not going to be something they expect us to pay all at once. Jim's job is bringing in more income then he's previous job, but not that much. That's alot of money to have all at once. We don't have our savings built up yet with this job. Oh well, no sense worrying about right now. It'll get taken care of.


I had planned on going to Walmart for groceries today and picking out my new nose ring since I can change it out this Friday. It's been two weeks since I had it done. It's a diamond stud he used to pierce it with, but it's bigger than the stud I want. I saw a much smaller and delicate one at Walmart when I was there last.


My day brightened up a bit when the awesome 80's at noon came on the radio. It just so happens that I was wearing my Jon Bon Jovi jeans today. Holes every where and a big slit underneath my butt cheek. I may be 25 pounds heavier than I was this time last year, but I can still rock them. First Skid Row's song " I Remember You" came on, then George Micheal's "Faith", and my personal favorite, "Footloose". I was dancing just like Kevin Bacon did in the movie. My legs kicking and arms flailing. I did all this while sweeping and mopping my kitchen floor.

As much as this may have brightened up my day it was unfortunately short lived. Reality of the sucky day kicked back in. Kids fighting, Evie screaming her head off as usual, and the satisfaction of yesterday's work gone. At least my kids look nice from their haircuts, but I'm sure that will wear off to.

Small groups at church got canceled cause of the weather, so I won't even get to see any of my friends today. Was looking so forward to that.

Does it sound like I've given up on the day? Yeah, pretty much have. Just getting through til nap time. Oh blessed nap time, you're always there for me. Maybe footloose will come on again.