Life Goes On…

Hello everyone. It’s been a while since my last post and quite a bit has happened in my life… not everything I will share here but enough of it…

Anyway, so some of you will already know this but my grandmother passed away on the 24th and last week was the memorial service at Rose Hills. The whole experience has been quite surreal for me as up until now, I’ve never experienced the death of a family member. From visiting her in the hospital in her last hours to the lugging of a very heavy casket up a long stretch of hill, I still wonder what has sunken in.

I know she’s gone but at the same time she’s not. I won’t be able to see her or talk to her again in this lifetime and that does make me sad; but at the same time, I’m not sad that she’s gone. For the past two years, her mental health had been deteriorating and if anything, I see her final passing as a freeing of her soul from its physical prison. For those of you who don’t know, my grandma was a very devoted Christian and even in her last days, she was still saying Amen. I won’t see her any time soon but I’m pretty sure I’ll see her again someday.

The week leading up to the memorial our family had to pick out a number of photos to use in the service guest book and it was fun and sad at the same time to sit with my parents and Elijah as we looked through old photo albums. It’s something we should do again sometime when we all have a bit more time. There were so many pictures of events that I couldn’t remember and wanted to ask about.

Honestly, I don’t know about other people but I have no memories what so ever before the age of 4 and it makes me wonder why I’m different. Obviously other people have memories of being so young and my nephews can remember who I am and call me by name and this was before they turned 4… I think my brain was damaged and didn’t actually activate until way later… I was a special kid I guess…

On a different note, my job offer came though about 3 weeks ago and everything has been inked and processed. Originally I was supposed to start my new position on Monday but it got pushed back a week due to office politics and such. I will be so glad one week from now not o have to deal with so much of the sh*t I deal with now. I know the new slot won’t be without its kinks but I feel so excited at the prospect of being naive again with a somewhat fresh start. Only 7 more days… that’s I tell myself at least… BTW Rebecca, I thought I was going out to Dallas on the 3rd, will probably be the 10th now…

Last, I need to express some of my usual ranting. What am i ranting about this time? TurboTax. I mean, don’t get me wrong–I love TurboTax but this year, Intuit has changed some things up that have gotten me a bit miffed. What did they change? Well, in past years, your purchase of TurboTax included one federal e-filing. This year, they apparently changed it. When you buy the damn software, a federal filing ISN’T INCLUDED ANYMORE. While it does day that on the box, I just felt so ripped off that they that away. Had I actually researched it in advance, I would have asked to borrow someone else’s software and saved like $40.

Apparently they don’t mind multiple users since each filing gets charged separately. Damn. So if any of you want my TurboTax to do your taxes, let me know. I have the deluxe version and the install disc works for both OSX and Windows. Don’t pay ON TOP of your e-filing fees for software when you shouldn’t have to. I’ve already un-installed it from my computer so I will feel no guilt for someone else borrowing the installation disc for their computers. It’d be like me re-installing it on my laptop and then letting someone use my computer. Next year if Intuit does this same crap again, I’m going to try TaxCut instead…