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binaryalchemist ([personal profile] binaryalchemist) wrote2010-03-20 06:15 pm

You Know you're REALLY a grownup...

When you think "Tax Refund" and feel guilty about keeping about five bucks so you can maybe get a cheeseburger--and the rest is pre-earmarked for BILLS.

I spent a very unpleasant afternoon writing checks. After rent--I rent from my friend so I pay half of my rent twice a month--I spent virtually my ENTIRE PAYCHECK on medical bills, perscriptions and paying towards balances on cards long since cut up. I did completely pay off one anesthesiologist and the pathologist who unbeknownst to me checked me for intestinal cancer when they apparently biopsied me during surgery last October.

Yeppers---no laptop, even if I start a kitty. I need a kitty to pay some travel expenses for Confluence and AWA. Damn it--I can't work any harder or live much closer to the bone. I had unplanned vet bills for Meep and unplanned medical bills for me...and not a lot of sales commissions.

What makes me really goddamned furious is that I work with and know people who are single and claiming brothers or sisters or friend's kids as dependents and getting huge refunds--and getting away with it. I sometimes get 400.00 or so--they are getting a couple of GRAND. And they don't get caught, either....no justice, eh?
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[personal profile] amethyst_koneko 2010-03-21 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Feh. Story of my life. :P Seems like every time I get a dime there's a bill collector standing there with their hand out to take it. >.< I'd love to know how these people get these huge refunds. I just know if I tried half of what they do, I'd get arrested so fast it'd make your head spin! :P

[identity profile] binaryalchemist.livejournal.com 2010-03-21 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
I know--when the mail comes in I instinctively yell out, "Okay, who wants money now?"