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My brain kinda snapped last night. Over-stimulation, too much stress and other random things like that. No, I don't want to talk about. I've talked it to death in one form or another. I've gone round and round the happily colored merry-go-round with it, and it's done. It's done. It may take me a couple of days to actually accept that it's over, and that things might turn out alright all round, but it is done.

Which is good because for the past three days I have not been able to sleep well. And I am so tired. And my back keeps clenching up.

Anyway, I'm off to make some coffee and find something for breakfast.

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Short today. Let me know if I forgot something.

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Finally called the insurance people about what they need to continue the "Good Student Discount" since the form they sent me said I was eligible if I had graduated but did not tell me how to go about proving said status other than to drive down to UE and get someone to sign a form. Um, screwy? Yes. All I need is a copy of diploma and copy of last transcripts, both of which are easy to get my hands on so long as I can recall how to get into Acelink.

Today is a good day so far.

Things feel alright.

Money Stuff

I was going to go to Quiznos and get something for dinner, and then I decided that it took too much effort. I'll just go home and make that oven pizza and drink wine and have a salad. Plus there's my finances. Which are iffy. Well, not really, but the amount I allow myself access to is making things look tricky.

See, I have this system. Once I hit $700 in the bank, I was not allowed to go under $500 except in the case of an emergency. Then when I hit $1200, I wasn't allowed to go under $1000 and so on and so forth. This works pretty well for me. I slowly save money, but I do save. I'm up to about $5700 so I'm not allowed to go under $5400 (I have a few more expenses now than when I was in college).

My cell bill, car insurance, Student Loans, cc payment, Netflix fees, gas and everything else come out of this amount on a regular basis with no real problem.

Problem? Cue taxes.

Usually, everybody owes me because I make shit plus I work and live in an enterprise zone (whatever the fuck that means). This year, however, I had the problem of the inheritance, which was, um, well the taxable portion was about $25,000. So I owe about $420 on that. However, I'm getting back about $330 from the state. But I owe the people who did my taxes around $120 as well.

Which means I'm $-210.

Only, as my Dad said, "You got $25,000. Why are you complaining about losing $210 of it?"

Well, see, I haven't done anything with the inheritance money. Not a thing. It sits in its savings account and looks at me forlornly. It's not sure whether I should spend it or invest it or what. I just don't want to do something inherently stupid with it.

So, the point of this is that the $540 to pay the taxman and to pay the govt will be coming out of my checking. Which will subsequently throw my entire system off, and I'll be wandering around not buying myself anything for weeks trying to even it out again. I mean, I won't even be able to splurge when the state rebate gets here because the money will already have been spent and is just working to even out what already happened.

*sigh* Why am I so painfully anal retentive about certain things?