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Busy day yesterday followed by a good meal out with friends. 2/3rds of mine came home in a box. Will have to add some more shrimp to it to extend it to split with DH.

I just checked our federal refund status and it finally shows as accepted with the deposit to happen on 4/21. We filed on 3/30 so pretty much exactly what it said the expectation was. I wonder if most of it is automated? Our return was a bit complicated this year so we were a little worried. The sale of 2 homes was one thing, but DH's home had been used as a rental in the past so had prior losses to be applied but also depreciation which had to be handled. Good thing my financial guy did it, not us. Our future years should be much smoother.

I have my next to last spring golf league game this morning. It's amazing how quickly people are leaving to go to their summer locations now. Only 36 women are playing today - less than 1/2 the norm. We are here until May 25. No point in being wet and miserable up north. April showers are April and May showers on Cape Cod bringing June flowers.

Have a terrific Thursday!

Greetings all

Cloudy today but dry. And not cold. I finally got back to the gym after eye thing and it was fine. The usual suspects were there. After that it was studio time and I started new projects since everything else is somewhere in the firing process. All good But before the gym DH and I spent time fixing some service plan electronic thing on the electric car. I don't quite understand what the big deal is but whatever. DH is in charge of electronics. The car is essentially a computer on a skate board.

So Miss Poppy and her siblings are four years old today! Seems so recent that they were born. All are doing well.

And our great niece is doing well too, having gained a whole pound since her birth 20 days ago. Yay team (I am tempted to think that it is family genetics that enables fast weight gain but I know it is good parenting).

Congrats to all who have their taxes done. Yikes on capital gains Peps. But it must mean you sold before the current slump. And yay for cleaning out desk stuff. Amazing what one can find. You will know you are old when you find stuff you forgot you owned. Hope the motor home sells soon.

Liz isn't it amazing how weight loss shows in the face first. Maybe it is because we have less fat there. And also amazing where some of us tend to put it and how that changes over time

We are still watching Dexter but getting near the end. Maybe next is The Residence as per CC recommendation.

Got some new readers delivered today. Pink, aqua and lavender. I am beginning to understand why people have multiple pair all over the house.

hmmm might be a nap coming on.

Cheers all

Diane S

I had a Jane Fonda exercise tape too but I feel like that was 40 years ago LOL.

I just found these DVDs on Amazon:

Jane Fonda Original Video

Jane Fonda Workout Set

Yikes on the 10K in capital gains taxes!

I wanted to ostrich too about how the investments were doing in this market. One lost 15K last quarter but two other (unfortunately smaller accounts) actually saw small gains! Not sure how DH?s are doing.

Hope the RV sells soon for you!

204.9 - essentially same as yesterday. Today should be shot day, but I'm going to go back to my regular Thursday schedule and wait until tomorrow.

After taxes were done, filed, and checks were mailed I went to work out. I think it was needed. It was a good one and helped soothe the sting of writing an almost 10K check to the Feds. (I had capital gains tax to pay... I was expecting to pay about 5K, not the 10K required!) I also had a "GULP" moment when I checked my balance on one account that I refused to look at since the market has tanked. I am down in that one account 20K since January. YIKES! Having to take money out of that account to pay my taxes really, really stung. I'm pretty sure that skin removal or any PS will wait now until 2026. Boooooo..... But I could be wrong.

Diamond D, we now have free breakfast and lunch for all students in CA. I agree with Liz that its a much better thing to have all kids on an even playing field for school nutrition.

One of the most wonderful things about staying home and taking care of taxes yesterday was all the periphery organization that I did in my office. Actually doing the taxes doesn't take more than about 90 minutes. It's the organizing all the paperwork and making sure I have all my ducks in a row that takes me the longest. So, I spent a lot of time going through extras since I had the time. I found stuff I had been hanging onto for over 20 years in one file (e.g., records of improvements on the former house that were no longer needed)! Of course, I got a little distracted and worked on some dog files and current home files that were not tax related, too.... But YAY me.... I"m glad I did those things. Tonight I will be shredding pay stub records that are well beyond being needed now!

I wish my RV/Motorhome would sell.... Would be so nice to have that off my plate. That's really the only albatross around my financial neck...

Winning, wistful, whacky, whatever Wednesday to all!