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Thursday, October 14th, 2004

miscellany

It’s very relieving to finally have a job. It’ll be more relieving once I actually start! I’m somewhat amazed at how “job-alert” I’d gotten – we were driving home this evening from the WNM, and I caught myself mentally going through the businesses we passed and considering just going into one of them to apply. Then it’s like… duh, got a job already!

Seth has an interview tomorrow.

I’ve been trying to figure out our taxes lately – which is a bit of a task! Federal is pretty straightforward, except that it took me forever to find the tax tables on the IRS website. I don’t think Kentucky has tables – it’s just a straight percentage plus a certain dollar amount (for instance: $280 plus 6%). Much simpler that way. Anyway, I was trying to figure out about how much we’ll pay this year and about how much we’ll pay next year, so we can get a sensible budget worked out.

Found out that Delaware has the 48th-lowest tax-per-income rate, which is why Kentucky’s 17th-lowest rate is seeming so terribly high to me – it is! It’s so nice, though, that they don’t tax food, and I think gasoline is cheaper here.

Speaking of food, we bought a gazillion (okay, more like ten) packs of Ramen (sp?) noodles today. Seth apparently likes them… I don’t believe I’ve ever had them, but for 14¢ a package, I’m more than happy to eat them even if I don’t terribly enjoy them! I also picked up a box of all rotten (er – au gratin) potatoes, ‘cause I like them, but I haven’t managed to make any from scratch yet!

I’m very sleepy, and therefore probably making questionable amounts of sense.

Julie wrote at 10:34 pm • 280 words • 1 comment

Comments:

Comment from: tara [Visitor]

All those tax numbers just went way over my head... =) Of course, I'd have to figure out Florida's taxes as I have to pay taxes this year. The good thing for you is that you can get taxes back since you are working now. I'm paying taxes cause I'm like an independant contractor from the studio. In other words, I'm really self-employeed. So I must pay for my own taxes. One tip I learned from a friend... You can pay taxes a little at a time. That way you won't get so bombarded paying taxes when April 15th comes along.

What is Seth interviewing for? I'll be praying for him!

Yeah, I'm glad we don't have to pay for food tax. =) Gas is exspensive here. It's about $2.01 for unleaded. How much is it there in Kentucky?

LOL!! Yeah Ramen can be good when you want to go cheap for food. (Sometimes it's a must.) But you'll soon get very tired of it. THough you might want to try and fix up the ramen by adding different things. I tried making Ramen into thin spaghetti. Or mixing it with some type of meat.

Good night. =) God Bless.

Thursday, October 14th, 2004 @ 23:26