Tuesday, March 13, 2007

U4eeya!

Today is such a lovely day! I went out during lunch and as I was driving along, I noticed the plate in front of me. I couldn’t resist the urge to say it out loud and then it clicked! What a clever little way to say the word euphoria and how apt it is to encounter this word on a day like today, full of sunshine and good cheer.

Yesterday I was doing my taxes, very grudgingly I might add. Emily was NOT full of good cheer then, especially when at the end, I saw how much I owed. So began the mad scramble to check and recheck figures and data entry, trying to see how many more deductions I can squeeze back from Uncle Sam’s grubby hands. I saw a place where I could list my expenses for having some sort of aquamarine oyster farm and that if so, I could get not just deductions but actual credits! It’s so random that I had to smirk. Usually I think of tax incentives as the government’s way of encouraging certain practices or behavior. I guess this was the (state govt)’s way of encouraging us all to grow our own pearls.

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