Tax time!

Tax time is not a favorite time of year for many people, I am assuming. For the first year, I am really not happy with tax time. As usual, I procrastinated and with the divorce from last year- I really should not have procrastinated so long. When we moved back and I first got my job, we thought long and hard about what deductions to take out to get the best return. Well, since our divorce wasn't finalized until late July- I wasn't able to change the deductions until I had the paper work the first week of August. Well, because we had decided to take out more deductions and I wasn't able to change it until late in the year, I now owe a lot to the government since I am considered single :( Definitely not very happy with this situation. When we were deciding the deductions, I should have been more careful and not have just believed what he said, but you live and learn right? Somehow, I need to find a way to make more money to get out of the debt I was left with and get the savings back that I had before we were married.

Okay, I guess that is enough complaining for now.

Work has actually gotten a lot better, though I've been working way too much for the amount that I am paid. But, I get to see people grow, see the cliche "light bulb" click, and hopefully make a positive impact on people's lives. There are still often times that I think it might be nice to work in only one department and have true co-workers, and a boss I see more than often than I do now. Yet in this economy, I just need to be happy that I actually have a job :) And, it's been insane busy which is good too.

On to the dating front. After being out of the dating world for so long- I am so confused. I've been dating, not seriously, the same person for 3 months now. We are quite opposite and many people notice and feel they need to say something as they don't want to see me hurt again. I completely understand and am thankful for the caring, but it makes it quite difficult to be back in the "game" again. For myself, I made sure not to get into a rebound relationship and took a year off from dating. The guy I am seeing waited 9 months to ask me out- but our opposite qualities are quite different. People would say that I am good natured with big heart where people and him included say that he is mean spirited. He's actually had a couple people send him e-mails stating he needs to be nicer to me or he'll lose me. I don't really agree with people meddling into other's business. I do like him, a lot, otherwise we wouldn't be exclusively dating. Yet, at the same time- I still wonder if it would be better to swear off dating for a long time. Many of my friends are of the male species and I enjoy hanging out and learning from them, but I think from having the majority of my friends as males and learning the male view on dating, maybe I am not meant for the dating world. Who knows, just take each day as it is, correct?

So, on to a funny part of my day. Those of you that personally know me, know that I am probably the most uncoordinated person around. This morning, I was shaving and could not figure out why my right shin was green and blue (this happens often). Well, then I remembered that last night, a friend picked me up to go bowling but he has a large truck and I am a fairly small person. I kept having trouble getting into the truck so he shows me the handles to use to get up. So, after bowling I go to get into the truck pull on the handles, all full of confidence, just to slip on foot rest, slide down the side of his truck and slam my shin on the metal! Ouch, and now my leg looks like a little child's drawing. Hopefully, it will go away before our waterpark event in a few weeks.

Coffee shop is closing!