Since we're clueless about filing joint taxes, and clueless about taxes in general, we broke down and let a pro do ours this year, which turned out to be surprisingly fast and stress free and totally worth the fee (our preparers were so efficient and on the ball that they even pronounced our last name right on the first try, which never happens). Better yet, we're getting a pretty sizeable (for us) refund; most of it'll go toward credit card debt, but still: nice. (Less nice is that we owe over $100 to state taxes, because our state is run by greedy bastidges, but we're focusing on the positive here). Yay, refund!
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I've lost two pounds! Only eighteen more to go till I'm back down to my wedding weight. I'm still impressed with SparkPeople, by the way.
I didn't eat so good over the weekend (Saturday I managed to rack up an impressive 5,000 calories over my maximum daily allotment), but Sunday, between walking a mile with Matt and running up and down the stairs at least twenty times in the course of getting laundry and other housework done, I managed to burn enough calories to keep my intake for the day well within my allowable range, despite not being super-strict with myself about my food choices. But now I've got five days of structure and routine to keep me on track, so all should be well.
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Drive, the new Tim Minear series starring the ever-adorable and always charming Nathan Fillion, and is to The Amazing Race what Lost is to Survivor, premiered last night on Fox. It continues tonight in its regular time slot. So who's watching it? What do you think so far? Does Brian Bloom's receding hairline depress you as much as it does me? Let me know in the comments.
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Since I had to look up Brian Bloom on IMDB, it doesn't depress me. :)
I am watching though. Mostly for Nathan so far, though I'm also enjoying "crazy baby lady" as well. Maybe next week I'll work on learning all the characters names... so far I have Alex and Winston down. Can you tell I go for pretty first?
I just had Alex and even him I forgot and just started calling him Nathan. It usually takes me a few episodes for character names to start sticking in my noggin.
I haven't seen the third ep yet--it'll probably have to wait for my ritual Saturday Morning TiVo Catchup. But so far I'm also enjoying Crazy Baby Lady, although her new partner is annoying enough for me to wish she'd just gone ahead and shot her. I also wish that because it would have taken the show to an impressively dark place. It felt like they were playing it safe. I wanna see lines crossed, dammit!
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