So life has been crazy. How could I expect it not to be. As most of you know Pete and I are going to be driving out to NY in a few weeks, both for my little bro's wedding and to get my dog and cats to bring them home. A large chunk of how we were going to afford this trip was using President Bush's oh so fabulous Stimulus Payment of $600. So I get my letter stating that my check is on its way and, yes, I am getting the full $600. Cue in a few weeks later and I get a letter from the IRS stating that they have taken my check and applied it to the tax bill I owed from 2007, oh and I still owe them $70. Let me take you back a few months to when I got my w-2 form from one of my past part-time employers. I open it up to find that they only took out like $100 in the 6months that I worked there. Now I don't know who screwed that up....me or them, but I was not happy to find that I now owe the Feds $655 in back taxes. So I go all the normal routes, file my return, with a payment plan proposal in order to pay back the money, which they accepted. I then receive a bill for $105, which I though was my first payment in the payment plan. OH NO!! When I receive the bill for the final $70 dollars I call up our wonderful IRS system (which by the way is next to impossible to get to a live person.....automated systems do NOT make things more simple Corporate America!!! It just pisses us off, so when we get to a real person, we are not as nice as we should be!!!) So, anyway, I call them up and get a live person and say Hey, I paid you all $105, you took my $600, how do I still owe you $70 when my original tax bill was only $655?" Oh get ready for this....they charged me $105 to SET UP MY MONTHLY PAYMENT ACCOUNT!!!!! WHAT?!?!?!?!?! Are you KIDDING me?!?!?!?! Which, by the way, is an account I won't need to be using, since they took away my stimulus check. But can I get it back? NO, cause they are crooks!! And, now, I am not going to have NEAR enough money to get to NY for my brother's wedding. It will definitely be a tight squeeze. I am actually having to have no taxes taken out of my next few paychecks just so I can get bills in order and have enough to get there. So YAY!! I'll get to owe them again! Gotta love how our society works. Only in America do we charge poor people for being poor. Take car insurance. Most don't know this, but insurance companies use your credit to determine your rates. And guess what...if you have bad credit, you pay more for car insurance. Like, ok, I don't make enough money as it is, which is why I have bad credit in the first place, so let's jack up the prices so I can't afford even more things, making my credit even worse. And with the prices of everything going up, the problem is just going to get worse. I just don't get the rationaled that people with good credit are better drivers. And what does my credit have to do with insurance? If I don't pay my bill, then I don't have insurance. If I crash my car without insurance, that affects only me, not the insurance companies. Look at all the rich celebrities and whatnot, with DWI/DUI up the wazoo. But I'll bet they pay less in car insurance than I do, cause they have money. When is our society going to wake up and realize that they way we are running things isn't working??
Ok, enough on that tangent. Happier things coming up....
Tomorrow, Pete and I celebrate 6 months together!! We are going to Water World to celebrate and I cannot tell you how excited I am to go!! I haven't been to a Water Park in AGES!! and I love them!!! We both have been giddy about this all week. And the bonus is....his mom got us the tickets as a gift, so we only have to pay for stuff on the inside if we want it. We are going to be bringing in a cooler so we can just save money on things like drinks and whatnot.
Tomorrow Pete will also be testing for Denver PD. I'm really hoping that this is it for him. He has some really good prospects both there and in Aurora (I hooked him up with one of my clients who is a detective, so now he has a really good reference there) He also has an interview with Jefferson County Sherrifs Dept, but he will only take that one if he doesn't get Denver or Aurora. Things are really starting to look up for him in respects to his career. Keep your fingers crossed that he gets what he wants.
Hmmm...what else....not sure if I have written about this, but our apartment is a hole. We are still without a dishwasher. It's been about 3 weeks or so since our dishwasher sparyed some unknown disgusting smelly sludge all over our dishes. We are supposedly getting a new one, but they are waiting for "a part" because apparantly the new dishwasher comes in two pieces?? Does anyone else smell something?? Oh and it's been over 2 months since the cable guy broke my bedroom door, over a month since he paid for it, and I still have a broken bedroom door. So, we are stuck in this place until next July, but we will definitely be moving to a nicer place when our lease is up. We were thinking of a nice townhome, but we'll see what's out there.
I think that is about it, like I said.....it's been crazy.......
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