It's 11:59pm, do you know where your taxes are?

Mine are in the mail. With one stamp, that's all they get. The drop-off guy last year told me they'd get there with no postage on tax day so why waste numerous stamps? We broke tradition by doing an evening drop instead of the 11^th hour one we usually do. There is no reason to get them in early when you owe. I’d like to keep my money mine as long as possible. I still have not been paid from my job and won’t be until May at the earliest. Nice. Talk about being appreciated at your job…try ignored. I won’t bitch about it because there’s no point. The taxes are paid. Let us all breathe a sigh of relief. If we thought we were broke before, we haven’t seen anything yet. Hopefully I will get paid someday and be able to pay Sky back his allowance I stole.

Thursday I got a call from Mary Jo while we were at Kung Fu class saying our street was blocked off due to an accident. We couldn’t get through so we parked by the tennis courts and walked to the house. The power was out because the car took out a power pole so we couldn’t get in the house…garage door opener is electric and I had the house on lockdown mode from the “daytime burglar” who, thankfully, is on a hiatus (I called it a sabbatical). Ugh. It was cold that day and we were hungry because it was past dinnertime. We finally got inside and were able to cook dinner by candlelight since we have a gas stove. It wasn’t too bad…we got out the camping radio and played board games but I had 3 shows DVRed and of course they didn’t record and the power didn’t come back until after 11pm so I missed them. I’m a bit miffed about missing ER, the others I can do without. I tried to watch it on NBC but they don’t have ER episodes on there, the buttheads. At least the power came back before it got below 60 degrees in the house…gas furnace but electric ignition.

In the world of orthodontics, I am dark blue with full powerchains again. 6 weeks without it on the top along with the rubber band and I had a huge gap up there on the side. The gap has already closed in 24 hours, whew. I took a step down in the bottom wire and got this horrific canine to canine rubber band (the Mountain Gorilla again, ugh it’s small). I had 2 of those toward the start of my treatment and I hated them. I could eat with the other configuration but not this one, I have to take it out or it hurts to chew. I am still ahead of schedule but I don’t know by how much yet. I am in for 10 more months so I am hoping 8 will do the trick *crossing fingers*. It is nice to be able to bite down and have all my molars touch. This is the first time in my life. I still do not chew on the one side, I haven’t for years now and once I got the braces on, it’s always too sore back there with all the moving of molars to get them straight. I was talking to Mau about the “one-sided chewing”, which he also did due to tooth issues, and he said he forgot how to use both sides. It will probably be the same case for me. I think I can now but I just don’t think about even trying since it’s such a habit not to.