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Well here we are at Thursday again.  Once home, I slipped the leash onto Sadie and took her for a walk, because I really need the time on the computer, and she prefers to have my attention in the evenings.   It's getting near Tax Day, and I had to make sure my taxes are all set to file.  There were a few additional things I could add, got that part done, and now, after a night of sleeping on it, I'll file when I get home from work tomorrow.  They're advertising a 21-day turnaround on refunds, so that'll be awesome :)

It's amazing what adds up - a couple hundred here, another few hundred there.  I was surprised at just how much I paid for medical care.  You pay because it's something that's needed.  You don't think about it, because it's spread throughout the year -- and yet when you add it all up, BOOM!  It's a lot of money!   I joked when telling family about how much it cost me.... I was always averaging it at $10k , never dreaming it was close to that.  :(  ugh

Are you the kind who notices things when you're alone in a restaurant?  We have a McDonald's near work, and I'll go there a couple times a week just to escape my BigBox store and the gossip that runs rampant in a social break room situation.  (Ours is worse because not only do people talk loud to be heard over the other people talking loud, they also compete with a TV that's on 24/7 as well.... YICK!)   Anyways, I was having lunch, reading my book when a man and his three kids sat down.  The kids ranged in age from 13 to about 6.  They started in on their meal and I listened - shamelessly - as the man talked loudly about his relationship with what I presumed was an ex-wife, or ex-gf, and what she was doing (cheating) , how she was treating him (spying on him), and how he wasn't the one doing things wrong.   There was a whole repetition of a "he said she said" convo with expletives and everything.  I have to admit, I was shocked.  I was raised where you didn't discuss intimate details of a relationship with young kids.  And if the woman he mentioned was the mother, then he should never speak of her that way to her children.

Two days later, and I'm going to sit down to my meal.  At the next table over, a man with an iced coffee had dumped out a large amount of tobacco.  He was hand rolling his cigarettes, licking the papers ...  OK.  I know I'm from a different generation than the younger crowd, but this guy was probably in my own age group. Would YOU do that in a restaurant???

OK. That's all I got today.
Taxes:  check
Humor:  check
Day of the Week?  Yep Friday tomorrow:  CHECK!