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thistlechaser) wrote2012-03-03 08:20 pm
thistlechaser) wrote2012-03-03 08:20 pm
Busy Saturday (RL, WoW, RP)
I buckled down and did my taxes today. On one hand, it wasn't as bad as last year. Last year I owed $600 federal and $250 state. This year I owed $400 federal and got back $100 state (but the Turbotax fees were $60, so...). I swear, last year Turbotax was free for federal and they just charged you for state. Oh well, at least it's done now... other than the forever worry that they'll audit me.
But before that, I started my day with an early trip to Sprouts (grocery store, like Whole Foods or Trader Joe's). I'm totally out of chicken for the coming week and have nothing to cook this weekend. Unfortunately I still have nothing to cook this weekend (nothing caught my eye), but I'm all shopped for the coming week.
WoW kept me busier than usual today. I use arcane dust in one of the items I make for money, and all of it was overpriced on the AH. I used to have a max level enchanter, but I dropped it off him (ugh!). Not wanting to pay for the overpriced dust, I decided to level a new one.
I paid more for the rods that enchanters need than I would have paid for dust for a year.
If I had remembered how annoying enchanting is to level, I don't think I would have dropped it. I only got up to 250 in a whole afternoon and I spent a crapton more than I would have liked to. (Thankfully I have a tailor who can make things to DE, but cloth is all so overpriced lately -- not enough people leveling and flooding the AH with it.)
RP: I swear, I think WoW knew I was serious about quitting. "What? You mean she really... she was serious about quitting? Had an application nearly finished? Was looking at other games? THROW RP AT HER NOW! NONSTOP!" Every night since then I've gotten RP. Knock on wood, I haven't come up empty one single night yet. And more than that, it's almost always good. Even yesterday, where the player had some... questionable... ideas (A DK so liked by the Lich King that he gave her the power to create purple-black fire from her bare hands!), she was still able to write a darned good post. And know what? I can live with that. She wrote well, so I was able to stretch myself and write well as well. I so often feel that RP is like a muscle -- it feels good to use it and stretch it and challenge it. Feels awful when I don't use it. (Says the person who can sit like a lump in front of the computer for twelve hours straight...)
Tonight I was able to catch two people I used to RP with at different times in the past. One used to RP with Haken a lot, the other RPed with Keen on and off. It was interesting to catch them both together on Thistle! The RP went really well, there was a nice connection. :)
So! Day: good. Hopefully tomorrow will be good as well!
I sure do wish LJ would fix its spellchecker. I worry I'm missing typos and errors! D:
Edit: Apparently I've joined the 'No LJ email notifications' club. Sorry if I'm slow replying to comments.
But before that, I started my day with an early trip to Sprouts (grocery store, like Whole Foods or Trader Joe's). I'm totally out of chicken for the coming week and have nothing to cook this weekend. Unfortunately I still have nothing to cook this weekend (nothing caught my eye), but I'm all shopped for the coming week.
WoW kept me busier than usual today. I use arcane dust in one of the items I make for money, and all of it was overpriced on the AH. I used to have a max level enchanter, but I dropped it off him (ugh!). Not wanting to pay for the overpriced dust, I decided to level a new one.
I paid more for the rods that enchanters need than I would have paid for dust for a year.
If I had remembered how annoying enchanting is to level, I don't think I would have dropped it. I only got up to 250 in a whole afternoon and I spent a crapton more than I would have liked to. (Thankfully I have a tailor who can make things to DE, but cloth is all so overpriced lately -- not enough people leveling and flooding the AH with it.)
RP: I swear, I think WoW knew I was serious about quitting. "What? You mean she really... she was serious about quitting? Had an application nearly finished? Was looking at other games? THROW RP AT HER NOW! NONSTOP!" Every night since then I've gotten RP. Knock on wood, I haven't come up empty one single night yet. And more than that, it's almost always good. Even yesterday, where the player had some... questionable... ideas (A DK so liked by the Lich King that he gave her the power to create purple-black fire from her bare hands!), she was still able to write a darned good post. And know what? I can live with that. She wrote well, so I was able to stretch myself and write well as well. I so often feel that RP is like a muscle -- it feels good to use it and stretch it and challenge it. Feels awful when I don't use it. (Says the person who can sit like a lump in front of the computer for twelve hours straight...)
Tonight I was able to catch two people I used to RP with at different times in the past. One used to RP with Haken a lot, the other RPed with Keen on and off. It was interesting to catch them both together on Thistle! The RP went really well, there was a nice connection. :)
So! Day: good. Hopefully tomorrow will be good as well!
I sure do wish LJ would fix its spellchecker. I worry I'm missing typos and errors! D:
Edit: Apparently I've joined the 'No LJ email notifications' club. Sorry if I'm slow replying to comments.
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Argh, I gotta do taxes in a couple of weeks, which means I need to tally up all the business expenses again. $400 is not bad at all. I have been paying taxes quarterly, but still need to cough up at least $6000 more. Sometimes being self-employed is a pain.
I think we got some money back a million years ago when Hubby was still in college and we were starving newlyweds. XD
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Ack! $6,000 would be even more shocking! (Don't ask me why I'm always surprised when I owe money, since it happens every year...)
Yeah, go to college, buy a house, have a kid... They all seem to give big deductions!
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