Apologies -

[kyburg]

Most of the content lately has not been my own, but as you can see - I've been writing in sound bites lately.

One, I'm still trying to get things under wraps to finish the foster parent certification -
Two, I'm dieting again - which is going well enough, but I'm not getting enough exercise. And the calorie counts for the day hang right around 1300 - most of those after I get home from work. (170 for breakfast, 280 for lunch...) So I'm a bit fatigued. That's the territory.
Three, no poftahs.

So here - have some content:



A Cafe Press store I might get some use out of. Check out the sidebar for more resources. Think my MIL will like something from those guys for Mother's Day, yessir I think she will....

Also did my taxes last night - and I think I need to revisit my stock sales as they're the source of some ouchness. Think I miscalculated the cost basis for the options portion of those stock sales. Y'know, capital gains taxes and all. Owie.

Hey, I was stupid and didn't withhold anything. If you know about the rules and don't pay attention to them - you get smacked. Surprise.

Over the course of a year, it ain't all that. Only people who have money have these problems. If I was broke, working a minimum wage job and so forth, I wouldn't have the stock, the options or the cash either.

I'm very lucky. VERY lucky. I can be an idiot and survive it.

(I'll still be eating more PBJ's, though. Owie.)

Also in that category? We don't have our license plates for the new cars yet. However, both of us have gotten parking tickets already - and Jim put in an insurance claim for a parking garage ding he got a couple of weeks ago. Already.

I've nicknamed my car Robin - I think I'll tell Jim about how I used to call the truck Arthur Dent because someone t-boned me 2 months after I bought it, and then Arthur got his dent fixed.

*sighs* And then I remember going through school without a scholarship, a grant or any help from home - working airport shuttle at all hours of the night and weekends, working commons dishroom, the nightmare that was my student job in the faculty office - shiver a bit, and then realize that nobody helped me, and I had asked. Nobody helped me - and I'm better for it.

Better prepared, that is. I'm healthy, educated and able-bodied. If I didn't have that, it wouldn't matter at all. I'd be just as screwed as any of the panhandlers I can pass in a day.

Comments

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

deyo's mom had five or six whacks on her new pickup -- everything from shopping carts rolling across the parking lot to being whanged hard in the side by other cars -- within her first year of ownership. But nothing that hit her truck had a driver or other human operator attached to it.

So now it has a custom pinstripe that says "event horizon" in cursive on the door. Only her geekfriends get it.

And thank you, thank you for the bumpersticker sentiment. I'm quite conflicted about the whole abortion thing, but mostly, I'm pissed off that so many people focus only on the baby before it's born, even down to the bundle of cells, then forget it needs care.

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Love, love, love that bumper sticker! Wish I could stick it on that anti-abortion guy who practically lives on the traffic median across the street during General Assembly.

Sunfell

[redqueenofevil.livejournal.com]

The sticker that you've linked is so appropriate. It's amazing how many people out there don't adhere to that. I find it particularly odd that those people are pro war and pro death penalty with zeal. And of course, my arguing with them and pointing out the hypocrisy ... well... you know how it goes.

Getting off the tangent, it's kind of too bad they only sell some of that stuff in sticker form.

What does one go through (training wise) when becoming certified as a foster parent? I think people who work as foster parents are doing a very noble deed, so I've always been curious.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

We will have finished three courses of study before we're done - DCFS requires MAPP (Method Aproach to Parenting Parnerships), TIES is another one that is optional (but highly recommended, for many reasons) and we've been asked to do another course of study to finish up - I hope before the end of this month.

We've finished the non-educational part - the State just wants to see that we have sufficient room, facilities and resources. The County is the one who certifies us - and what they want, takes a bit longer.