Fun filled day!

Not really but I thought that would grab your attention, gotcha!
In actuality it was charged with excitement of the fairly common kind, except for the possible radiation in our gallon of milk…NOT!
By that intriguing comment I bet you can tell that we went grocery shopping and then saw the news! Scary, the cows in Washington and California, they must have glow in the dark grass in their meadows, since apparently their milk is showing slight radiation infusions; not funny I hear you all saying and yes I agree! But I couldn’t resist my bad…
Any-who, we did get our food necessity shopping done thanks to Hubby’s pension check coming in; gosh we, were out of everything and our bill there reflected that!

We intended on leaving before eleven A.M. for that major errand but I had heard a rumbling noise emanating from our roof top early this morning, a sound that has meant in the past that our pools solar panels had lost their sashing and were free flowing up and down all over it.
Sure enough Hubby checked and they were all doing their funky rollover dance and so Hubby had to hopefully find more sashes to secure it with a storm possibly coming this evening, in fact according to the news reports it may be here before I finish this!
And so scarily Hubby had to climb the ladder to our one story roof, not so scary you say… well , Hubby has a really bad back and I worry, ladder climbing is not so easy in that condition as anyone who has one too can well imagine, but he installed the panels nearly six years ago before his accident. Fortunately, he has been to physical therapy and so he does know proper body mechanics for the job, and so he was able to get up there finish what he went up there to do and not hurt too badly until he mentioned it this evening to me after dinner, oh darn!

Shortly after we arrived home and we put our groceries away, had some lunch the mail came. And today we heard back from the IRS about that five hundred bucks they electronically put into our account a year ago last February, when we knew our refund was only supposed to be sixty-eight dollars and being an honest gal who knows how to do our taxes and we have done our own for many years online for free, Hubby and I both knew a mistake had been made and so I called the IRS that same day and gave them all the critical personal info they needed to check their mistake and they still insisted it was ours to keep! Well, not being perfect ever we took their diagnosis as being correct and so we happily accepted this, ‘found money’, gosh heaven knows who couldn’t use an additional five hundred bucks? And with our mounting medical bills it was a welcome relief to help with them. And so we remained fat dumb and happy for nine whole months and then the letter came from the IRS!
We regret to tell you that you owe us five hundred dollars and we want it now!
Well, that’s not exactly what they said but you get the gist of it.
And so I wrote back and explained that when we received it that we knew it wasn’t ours but they insisted that it was and now that entire amount would be difficult to pay back at one time and could we set up a payment plan without interest or penalties, since it was their mistake not ours.
After an interim letter stating that they would get back to us in forty-five more days but if we wanted to start paying them back we could and we opted on waiting; I even wrote that in this blog, since we had no idea what would be the amount decided on for a monthly payment plan. Today we received another letter telling us that we had to pay the entire amount by April 16, 2011 or we will be paying penalties and interest! Thus a two hour and twenty minute phone call to the number they included in the letter if we ‘had any questions’.
Hubby tried getting through to the correct person for over an hour but no one knew what he was talking about and in fact they bounced him around from person to person said that we owed nothing! Crazy, yes it is true this year we owe nothing and are not getting anything back either. But when he tried to explain that this was from 2009 they shifted him over to someone else who had no idea of what he was talking about either! The second hour and twenty-two minutes was my turn and I finally was speaking to a woman who seemed to understand but at first I could not understand her. You see, she had a heavy accent, and this time it was an Asian one and so I asked to speak to someone else because I felt that we would have difficulty understanding each other and I tried not to sound as if it was a racist remark, because in my mind it was not it was that if we couldn’t discuss something this important due to a communication problem that wouldn’t be very good, especially for me and Hubby. But she spoke slower and I listened better, see even I can learn, anyway what it boiled down to was a payment plan that we qualified for without penalties, but she could not promise without interest and she suggested writing another letter to different address this one in Philadelphia and so while she was giving it to me our house phone started beeping and then it went dead!
Who says we live in the slow lane, huh?
Oh yea that was me… well stay tuned…
All right I did get the whole address before it went totally dead but I thought it was more exciting to leave you wondering… boy I ruin all my own fun!

On that little bit of a view into my world once again let me be the first to wish you all a happy good night and ask you to count your blessings and to kindly share your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!