Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Where's my refund?



Answered!
Our tax refund was electronically placed into our bank account where it belongs, even if it isn’t the correct amount.
Yep, you heard that right.
We filed when we received all necessary documents one needs to file, as we have done yearly since we had been working these forty plus years but these last eight were online due to Hubby being retired and it is for free online for us at our income level at IRS.gov.

Any-who, this year we found out that after several years without a refund, breaking even with not owing either, all of a sudden we were getting money back due to Healthcare.gov, nice.

And yes, they send a statement like all others do, and when I found a mistake I notified them and the IRS, but both insisted to file with the information that we had and so we did, foolishly. That was February fifth-ish I think (we only signed and dated the one mailed, oops!), by the middle of March the fourteenth, we received a corrected document stating a two hundred seventy-four dollar difference for that extra month of subsidy that I did not get and told them about, and they said to go online and find a certain form and fill that out and send that with their corrected form. Only problem was that the form was for people who OWED money, not people RECEIVING a REFUND!
Not going to go that route again with misinformation and so I sent the form to the IRS with a BIG notation on the envelope to the address that requested other info from us, earlier, "CORRECTION INFO ENCLOSED".

Over the weekend I checked on their site again to see where our refund was in processing, since it is way longer than they originally said, by the time it went in today it was two months, not the four to six weeks we were originally told.
And voila, it was being processed and sent and the date was today’s!
Hip, hip, hooray!

And sure enough it was for the wrong first amount I told them was a mistake, by Healthcare. Gov, stating that I had received twelve months of subsidies and I only had received eleven month’s worth, and Ta Da the correction form a couple of weeks ago stated that, and so……… once they check I am pretty sure it will change this tidy sum that we received today.
Yep, I am more than sure, so spending it is on hold until they figure it out; I did my part now they should do theirs, true?

So those monies will be on hold in our account by us, not by anyone else, since when they figure it out, they will want it back yesterday or charge us interest. I know this because it happened before!

Oh joy what a toy financial security can be, occasionally a broken one.
Huh?


Moving on…

Somehow my shoulders had been doing pretty darn good for a few months and then they started becoming an issue again.
Probably due to my lack of exercise, I know that is it…
Well, what do you do when you have no desire to use weights which only hurt more at the gym, and even at home I have 3, 5, 10 hand held dumbbells to use, but the best will be the pool!
Soon, even as soon as this weekend.
ROM, range of motion in warm water will do the trick, even for my spinal stenosis!
The docs finally agree all better than surgeries!

Today I was a bit more rambunctious in my house cleaning with removing the covers off of two of our three couches, one goes commando, but Gus doesn’t like it as much and it is a darker color, blue denim colored but soft like felt, and is fine without since Hubby took Gus in for a grooming.
Grooming did not go at all well, we were called to pick our little darling up a few minutes after he was dropped off and he was sent home with a bottle of pills, sedatives, not for us though ha, for him! (The pills were prescribed by his doctor)

He went berserk when Nina, the groomer, at our newest vet’s office, thankfully, put him in the sink and went to remove his collar, he bit into her bite glove and growled and snapped and would not allow them to muzzle him! Oh darn and for the type of dog he is that does not shed and needs regular grooming and haircuts this is scary for all concerned. His hair is nearly covering his eyes again and they become irritated when they are covered, his eyes that is… odd that he has been allowing me to bathe him, but not them… I suppose different people, lotsa lights, noises with trimmers around etc.

Nina did say she is not giving up on him, she does know his story as a rescue and I did warn her that he became aggressive with the first one who groomed him at the rescue we had been told after I called when he had bit me and asked more about his history of aggression. I told her everything and she still feels that with the sedation on Friday she would like to try again, wow, what a nice person.
Except for being clean he almost looks as bad as when animal control picked him up down in Collier County, since brushing him is an issue too.
If all goes according to plan he will be getting what is called a puppy cut on Friday, like when we got him, which is the best for him and lasts the longest!

Plus he is a real boy and gets dirty with his people daddy, Hubby helping him, he thinks.
And who knows if he might enjoy the pool like Skipper, Benji and Brandi his predecessors all did, and than short hair is best, truly!

On that note of a roller coaster day, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

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