animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

taxed

I had the taxes done earlier this month (business and personal). Since Jake is graduating from college this year, I’ll no longer get whatever tax credit is related to that and I think there might have been other ramifications with my future filing status. So my accountant had to increase …

today’s lesson

Mea culpa. I had erroneously been referring to the ‘national debt’ as the ‘national deficit’ (previous posts have since been fixed). It turns out that the national debt is the total amount of money that the government owes, whereas the ‘national deficit’ (or budget deficit) is the amount the government …

busted

I tried to cash one of Brian’s expense checks this afternoon (for the whopping amount of $5.88) and was reprimanded by the bank teller: “Angela, did you sign both names on this check?” Duh. So, instead of cashing it, they had to deposit the darned thing. I’ve only been signing …