Rante Macabre

[NikLR 13,228]

44 minutes ago, Teacake said:

Yeah, I offered a couple times to try building it myself but he kept saying no. Maybe I should just try to get it done already, but it’s weird to me that he doesn’t want to follow through with it as a project. We live in a house that was built in the 1930s in need of a lot of renovations and general maintenance if we are to get the upstairs inhabitable, for example. so we’ve got a ways to go. I just thought it would be neat to see him show initiative in one of these smaller things to get the ball moving since he said he wants to stay and keep investing time and effort into this house. 

 

He’s not introverted, he’s a social person who gets along with others really easily. He may be scared of leaving a more rural life for sure, but thankfully we spoke about moving again yesterday and he was a lot more cooperative.

 

I wasn’t asking him to leave his new job, it was just a conversation I was wanting to have about the near future. The fact that he was unwilling to hear me out at all yesterday was what got me. 

Well it's good that he's social. Maybe bringing up being more urban and the ability to be social might help you.  I don't offer to do things like build things, I just do it.  But both hubs and I are like that.  We decide to do something and don't do a lot of consulting unless we either need help or it costs money. 

[eirinlinn 105]

3 hours ago, NikLR said:

Must be why you did it so early! I dont think i have my mortgage statement but I think the standard deduction is more than my itemized anyhow so I dont know why I bother. 

As far as I know standard deduction is the way to go unless you paid an exorbitant amount. Taxes made me mad this year.

[eirinlinn 105]

3 hours ago, NikLR said:

My husband would love to move to property but the amount (or rather lack thereof) of effort he puts into maintaining our home had me say no.  I would also love it.  But I wont do that much work alone (he won't shovel the driveway.)  

Why is this ikea furniture waiting for him? Why dont you build it? While youd like to move to someplace different maybe moving scares him? A new job isn't necessarily easy to leave for people. Is he slightly or majorly introverted? My husband is very stubborn and it is all based on the fact that he gets major anxiety with too much change.  So he shuts down.  He can do it, but it takes a lot for the motivation to kick in and overcome the turtle instinct. 

 Change is so hard for some people. Harder than others. Any sort of change at work for example kicks my anxiety into high overdrive 

[Teacake 76]

Just now, NikLR said:

Well it's good that he's social. Maybe bringing up being more urban and the ability to be social might help you.  I don't offer to do things like build things, I just do it.  But both hubs and I are like that.  We decide to do something and don't do a lot of consulting unless we either need help or it costs money. 

That’s a good dynamic! I’ve yet to use a power drill and this item requires doing that for example. A few firsts required, but I’m open to trying my hand at new things. Since he’s the more experienced builder, we both naturally assumed he’d build it I guess. 🙂 I think if I tried to at this point anyway, he’d get upset with me lol. “I told you I was going to do it” sort of thing. Oh well, he’ll get ‘round to it this weekend probably.

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,093]

17 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

We can offer you a handsome 0.0000001% discount if you pre-order, oj tak.

/does math on how much something would need to cost for that discount to save even one cent ...

 

TBone-corp supplies space shuttle toilet seats?

 

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,093]

2 hours ago, eirinlinn said:

Taxes made me mad this year.

Only was slightly frustrated by taxes, because California didn't like the way I tried to electronically sign them the first time (I guess because PRG doesn't have a driver's license or state ID # I could use). Other way worked (though have no idea why CA wants us to fill out and sign a form we don't have to mail to them ...).

 

Still, apparently marriage helps keep the tax man away; expecting refund almost equivalent to what I owed last year (sold some stock and forgot that Fidelity doesn't automatically pay taxes on it).

[rrobin0609 387]

15 hours ago, eirinlinn said:

Stupid dummy utah state has my stupid taxes in limbo and I'm anxious to get my friggin taxes done and over with. I hate tax season with a passion. 

I feel this to my core.

At the beginning of January 2017 I started my first adult job. I had always marked I was exempt on my W4 before and idiotically did it then too. I owed $7k in taxes for that year.
Last year, the IRS decided they wanted to include my husband's foreign income instead of correctly exuding it. I had to fill out a amended tax form and write an angry letter to the IRS explaining they couldnt tax that income because he made it outside the US and was not a citizen (and it wasnt over the threshold). I filed the first week of March and didn't get my refund until mid-October.

Edited February 7, 2020 by rrobin0609

[ledingham 68]

7 hours ago, NikLR said:

You dont live in Alberta eh?  That's too bad. Memory Express was the bomb when I lived in Calgary.  Heck I drove to it when I lived in Red Deer! 

But i would wait anyhow, it's prolly cheaper. 

Manitoba and we have memory express here too. Its great and they price matched everything I requested when I built a new PC this June. They're great there.

Yeah it is probably cheaper plus its not like my monitors DON'T work. There's nothing wrong with them and no real reason to replace them.

[TBoneTX 45,599]

15 hours ago, DaveAndAnastasia said:

discount to save even one cent ...

The above words are music to the ear, Hear Me O Muse man.

In answer to your fervent query, you would save $Many, easy calculation DA man.

[TBoneTX 45,599]

Youse who have already filed taxes are lucky, perhaps man.

Our Pre-Owned Toilet Seat empire makes approx. $Many,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 annually, $i man.

We have one Tax CPA (with full staffs) to handle each month of the year, necessary man.

Even so, it's a race to file by deadline, adrenaline man.

Life as an important Business Typhoon can be challenging, sigh man.

[TBoneTX 45,599]

Only about Many GSs* and just one ES** itineraried for Saturday, weird and thin pickin's man.

  *garage sales

**estate sale

 

Edited February 8, 2020 by TBoneTX

[TBoneTX 45,599]

Scintillating repartee this weekend, yawn man.

[TBoneTX 45,599]

Saturday GS/ES report, see man:

 

The ES and one GS yielded fruit, see the take man:

  -- 2 new Pantene conditioner = $Many ($2+2), steal man

  -- cutting-board, new pack of 2 Manyzen plastic cups, serving spoon, washcloth, 

        can Cream of Mushroom soup = $Many ($2+1), steal man

Total = $Many ($2+2+2+1)

[TBoneTX 45,599]

Did not leave the casa all day, technically a perfect Sunday man.

Wouldn't have had the energy to leave the casa anyway, lethargic Sunday man.

Lawn badly needs mowing, didn't do it man.

Somehow conquered the minimum Many (2+1) laundry loads, victorious we man.

Supposed to rain most of the coming week, yuck man.

[TBoneTX 45,599]

Scintillating conversation overnight, yawn man.

(Lurking reputation-pointing Asia!  Lurking, LURKING reputation-pointing REPUTATION-POINTING Asia!)