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This post comes from Jim Wang at partner site U.S. News & World Report.
The term "side hustle" has become very popular lately – and for good reason.
If nothing else, the Great Recession has taught us that your job, as stable as it may seem, could disappear at any moment. The unemployment rate peaked at more than 10 percent in October 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which meant millions of Americans were out of work.
The idea of a side hustle is very appealing -- find something you can do to earn a little money on the side. A side hustle can create diversity in your income stream and, with a little bit of luck and lots of hard work, could become something you do full time. Even if it doesn't, an extra hundred dollars each month can go a long way.
But when it comes to tax season, the Internal Revenue Service might not see your side gig the same way. Is your activity considered a hobby or actual business? Does it matter? Here's what you need to know before sending off your tax returns.
Hey, procrastinators, your time is running out. Take a minute to be sure you're not making one of these embarrassing (and potentially expensive) errors.
By Libby Kane, Business Insider
By now, most of us have filed our taxes and called it a day. But for the 15 percent of Americans who didn't submit their tax forms before April 1, time is running out.
Take a deep breath. Rushing through most anything lends itself to silly, last-minute errors, and taxes are no exception.
"It's like homework," says certified financial planner Keith Klein of Turning Pointe Wealth Management in Phoenix. "You can only do so much, so long, and then you get distracted."
If you're scrambling to get your taxes together at the last minute, it's easy to slip up and enter a wrong number, which can lead to even more paperwork in the form of a tax amendment or paying additional fees to the IRS.
Now that we're getting down to the wire, Klein shares some of the dumb, last-minute filing mistakes you'll want to avoid.
1. Mixing up your federal and state taxes. Tax-preparation software and e-filing can catch a lot of errors, but you're the only one who can keep your envelopes straight. "Even if you're using apps to track your spending and software to file your taxes, you can still send your check to the wrong place," Klein reminds us.
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A Slate columnist argues that childless Americans should pony up some more cash for taxes and that parents should get a bigger break.
This post comes from Krystal Steinmetz at partner site Money Talks News.
Nonparents should pay higher taxes so that lower- and middle-income parents can receive a much-deserved tax break. That's the proposal of conservative Slate.com columnist Reihan Salam.
"The willingness of parents to bear and nurture children saves us from becoming an economically moribund nation of hateful curmudgeons. The least we can do is offer them a bigger tax break," Salam, who is childless, said.
Not surprisingly, Salam's proposal has ignited a fiery debate, as you can see on WNYC.org.
"Childless by Choice" from New York City said, "How about couples who have more than two children pay MORE taxes, given that they've now foisted upon a dying planet yet another mouth to feed, another consumer of resources, and another generator of waste and pollution."
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If you got some Stuff We All Get at a fancy event, or won a cool contest prize, Uncle Sam wants to know about it.
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You might be able to score a free lunch these days, but get anything beyond that and the Internal Revenue Service may come after you for taxes.
Lucky enough to score an $80,000 goodie bag at the Oscars? You'll owe something in the neighborhood of $26,400, if you're in the 33 percent tax bracket. Won an iPad in a raffle at a conference? That would be more than $100.
Stuff We All Get, known to most as "swag," comes with no direct price tag to you. We all score a few promotional t-shirts or pens every now and then, and while you may think they're gifts -- or, worse, utterly useless junk -- they're not gifts for tax purposes since they weren't given to you out of sheer generosity.
Instead, those so-called gifts are taxable income in the amount of their fair market value, and you need to report them to the IRS and pay the appropriate tax on it.
"People go to events all the time, and if you go to an event for your job and get certain swag, it affects you," says Lisa Greene-Lewis, a certified public accountant at TurboTax.
The rules on swag aren't new.
Taxpayers have just days left to file for $760 million in unclaimed 2010 tax refunds or the money will revert to the U.S. Treasury.
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April 15 is the last day of a three-year grace period for filing your 2010 taxes. And the stakes are huge -- $760 million is up for grabs, Forbes said. If you're owed a refund, there's no penalty for filing your taxes late. But if you don't file by April 15, all unclaimed refunds will be turned over to the U.S. Treasury.
If you meet certain income requirements, you aren't obligated to file a tax return. But that doesn't mean you aren't owed a refund. According to Quicken Loans:
Even if you don't have to file a tax return, the reality is that it can still be a good idea. Perhaps you have had money withheld from your paycheck. If that is the case, and your income is low enough that you don't owe, then you have a refund coming.
Forbes said the IRS estimated that more than half of refunds waiting to be claimed are more than $571 each.
Retirement experts call it a game changer for the 50 million or so households in the US that own an individual retirement account.
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This column has been updated to clarify that the one-year period during which two or more IRA-to-IRA rollovers should be avoided starts when the IRA owner receives the distribution.
Uncle Sam's Tax Court just ruled that the one-rollover-per-year rule applies to all of a taxpayer's IRAs rather than to each IRA separately. And that ruling, experts say, is in direct conflict with IRS Publication 590, the bible for IRAs.
"Industry leaders, financial advisers, and everyone else who handles IRAs are stunned," said Denise Appleby, the editor and publisher of The IRA Authority.
According to Appleby, there are two ways to move money between IRAs:
- Transfers, which are not reported to the IRS and not reported on a tax return. The IRA owner never touches the money. You can do this as often as you like, whenever you like, Appleby said.
- And rollovers. With this method, the IRA owner takes the money as a distribution and they have 60-days to rollover (put back) the amount in an IRA. And this, you can do only once per 12-month period, said Appleby.
According to Appleby, the IRS, through their publications and regulations, has said for at least 20 years that the rollover method applies on a "per-IRA" basis. In other words, if you have 10 IRAs, you can do 10 rollovers for the year (12-month period), as long as an IRA does it only once (or the year).
It costs an arm and a leg -- and sometimes another arm -- to raise a child. These tax breaks can help you recoup some of that money you spent on diapers.
This post comes from Carolyn O'Hara at partner site LearnVest.
It's no secret that raising kids is expensive—but did you know that it's now reached price-of-a-vacation-condo-at-the-beach and splurge-on-a-Bentley expensive proportions?
The cost of rearing a middle-class American child from infancy to the age of 18 is now an estimated at $241,000—and that's before you start getting those college bills.
Fortunately, parents get a little bit of financial relief every April, courtesy of the U.S. government.
Your little ones can nab you a number of tax breaks, but unless you're an accountant yourself, it can be easy to miss out on them.
That's why we asked Michael Goldfine, a New York City–based certified public accountant, and Jeffrey Schneider, an enrolled tax agent based in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, to highlight the 11 deductions, credits and tax strategies that every parent should know about—whether you have a toddler, or a college senior who's just about to graduate.
Many Americans think the IRS is the villain of tax season, but identity fraudsters are lurking. Don't let them wreck your finances and your life.
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine – let's call her Mallory - got an unsettling call from her accountant. The accountant had been preparing Mallory's taxes, hit "Send" to e-file the finished return, and it was rejected. Someone had already filed a tax return using Mallory's Social Security number. She'd been a victim of tax identity theft.
The accountant called the IRS, but they wouldn't talk to her. Mallory called and was directed to the fraud department. While she was on hold, she made more calls: one to a friend at the FBI, another to the FTC and the last one to me.
Mallory had just become a statistic. The aftermath of tax identity theft is messy, and since 2012, the number of victims has been on the rise. Millions of Americans who expected refunds—often desperately needed to make ends meet -- have waited the better part of a year to get their money back -- and even then only after they had traversed a paper labyrinth to prove to the IRS they had been the victims of a crime.
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Katie Stark is a lifelong fan of the Tigers who wanted to spend her 27th birthday celebrating with friends and family at Comerica Park.The June 22 game was going great. The Tigers beat the Red Sox by a score of 10-3, and Max Scherzer became the second Tigers starter to go 10-0."When we went to leave after the fireworks, my wheelchair was not where I left it. Apparently somebody must have taken off with it," said Stark.She told us they parked her wheelchair exactly where an usher instructed never thinking it would be a problem.Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at just eight months old, all she wanted was to be comfortable for nine innings."I didn't sit in it because I like to be as normal as possible, and I don't like to sit in my wheelchair for very long. I like to sit in a normal seat with everybody around me and cheer them on just like everybody else," Stark said.The missing Nova wheelchair is bluish purple in color and has a cream DTE tag attached. Without it, Stark's movement is limited. She is having to hold off on long distance outings because they are just too much physically. She now spends a lot of time at home with her dog watching the Tigers on TV."Who would want to steal a wheelchair? It doesn't make sense to me, but somebody must have needed it more than I did," Stark said."I hope whoever took it, they didn't take it just to throw it in the street. I hope they took it because they needed it," said mother Theresa Buero.We're told Stark's family did file a complaint with Comerica Park, as well as with Detroit police.We have since reached out to Comerica Park. They said they are aware of the situation and will try to help the family out as much as possible.
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New PDRA Webinar – Online Contests on Social Media
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You've heard it all before, just like us. Like us, follow us, pin it to win it, etc.
But whether or not you're a fan of popular sites such as Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest, they have proven so effective for so many retailers that they are now almost a mandatory part of doing business.
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Independent paint and decorating retailers put a bow on 2012 with a positive fourth quarter that gave them an overall sales increase of 4.1 percent when compared to 2011.
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There's no better place in the industry to see big names than the PDRA-sponsored Paint & Accessories Show at the National Hardware Show®, which this year takes place May 7-9 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nev.
Top names from the paint, coatings and paint sundries/tools category will be exhibiting at the show, making it a valuable experience for independent paint and decorating retailers to attend.
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Do you ever see posts and images on Facebook and wonder how they did that? In the next PDRA webinar, you'll learn about some online tools that paint and decorating stores can use to enhance all forms of social media.
Best of all, these tools are free and simple to use. With such topics as adding text to images, creating photo collages and using custom color schemes, the webinar will look at a variety of options to keep your online communities entertained and engaged.


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Car Diddy Bag
This tutorial is for a multifunctional Car Diddy bag. Use it as a litter bag (the interior is laminated for easy cleaning) or as a toy/activity bag.
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8 layer cake squares (Martinique)
3/8 yd Moda laminated cotton (Martinique)
Two (1") D-rings
1. Cut 5 layer cake squares according to the following diagram. You will now have (20) 5" squares!
2. Cut 3 layer cake squares according to the the following diagram. You will now have (27) 3" squares!
3. Layer a 3" square on top of a 5" square and stitch in place. Repeat for a total of 18 sets.
You will have two leftover 5" squares and nine leftover 3" squares. Set these aside.
4. Slice each square on the diagonals.
5. When you peel back the corner, you'll see a dog tail underneath.
Snip the dog tails off to keep the block from getting too bulky.
6. Mix and match triangles.
7. Sew triangles together to create 18 new squares.
8. Lay out nine squares like the picture below.
Sew the squares from each row together.
Then sew the rows together. Repeat this step to create another exterior panel.
9. Layer the two exterior panels from Step 8 right sides together. Stitch down one side, across the bottom, and up the other side. Please be sure to leave the top open! Turn right side out and press.
10. Take twelve of the 3" leftover squares from Step 3 and stitch right side together to create a long strip. Take two more 3" leftover squares and stitch right side together to create a short strip.
11. Fold each strip right side together and stitch along each long side. Turn right side out and press.
12. Edge stitch the long ends of each strip.
13. Slide two D-rights onto the middle of the short strip. Stitch a line to keep D-rings secure.
14. Measure 1.5" in from each top corner of the exterior. Baste strips in place, sewing through only one layer of the exterior.
15. Now grab your laminated cotton. Isn't it fabulous? You're going to love sewing with it. Okay, back to business... Cut two 11" x 11" squares from the laminated fabric.
Layer right sides together and stitch both sides, leaving the top and bottom open. Leave the lining wrong side out and place the exterior inside the lining, with right sides together.
Pin the top edges together and stitch all the way around.
16. Pull the exterior through the opening in the bottom of the lining. Hand or machine stitch the opening in the bottom of the lining.
17. Tuck the lining into the exterior and top stitch all the way around.
That's it! You're done. Loop your sassy new litter or toy bag around the front headrest and secure with the D-rings.
A cute and functional way to minimize mess!
19 comments:
- Me and Madeline said...
Love it! I've never used laminated cotton before, must try this!
- April 23, 2010 at 12:19 AM
- craftthefinalfrontier said...
What a fabulous bag. My son turns 28 tomorrow....much too old to be sitting in the back with toys! I can see it being put to good use slung over the passenger seat when I'm in the car on my own. Thank you for sharing.
- April 23, 2010 at 4:03 AM
- Sara said...
Great idea! I love it!
- April 23, 2010 at 5:48 AM
- Cara said...
Where would you find the laminate cotton?
- April 23, 2010 at 6:39 AM
- Connie W said...
- April 23, 2010 at 8:00 AM
- Andrea said...
I really really like this idea...the back of my van always looks a mess...
- April 23, 2010 at 8:41 AM
- Crystal Hendrix said...
I will have to make one of those! So cute!
- April 23, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- Beverly said...
Great idea! I'm going to give this a go. Where do you get the laminated cotton?
- April 23, 2010 at 9:48 AM
- Marcia said...
hmmm, the pictures don't come through.
- April 23, 2010 at 11:00 AM
- Jenny Garland said...
Moda sells the laminated cotton. I would check around at your favorite local quilt shop for it.
- April 23, 2010 at 11:07 AM
- Chris said...
Hmm, if you put a zipper or some velcro at the top and skipped the strap it might make a good wetbag too.
I have some oilcloth, which is maybe thicker than laminated cotton, but I might try it with that.
- April 23, 2010 at 1:01 PM
- The simple life... said...
Looks great! I am ready to give it a try. We will have to look into the laminated cotton for our store.
- April 23, 2010 at 2:35 PM
- Melissa Stramel said...
Love this idea! I'll be making one.
- April 23, 2010 at 3:11 PM
- Jennifer said...
Very handy. I love the way the blocks are made. I might use your technique in a quilt!
- April 24, 2010 at 8:54 AM
- Five Little Crafty Birdies said...
Thanks for this cute idea! Gonna make a few of these. So cute! Love it!
- April 24, 2010 at 10:37 AM
- Angela said...
The laminated cotton featured in this tutorial is actually called Vinyl Coated Fabric by Moda fabrics. You can find it at your local quilt store that carries Moda or by doing an online search for Moda Vinyl Fabric or Moda Vinyl Coated Fabric.
- April 26, 2010 at 10:35 AM
- onlymehere said...
We have something similar in our car that I use as a garbage bag! I'm almost an empty nester so we just use it for ourselves. When I'm alone it's easy to flip around so it's on the front of the passenger seat and easy for me. I empty it after each trip out of town.
- April 26, 2010 at 1:31 PM
- john & natalie said...
I am making this right now and can't wait to finish it. It's such a cute idea. I'm confused though because you say you have 2 extra 5" blocks and 9 extra 3" blocks but then when you come to making the strap you say to use 12 of the 3" squares for the long section and 2 more of the 3" squares for the short section. How are you getting 14 3" squares?
- November 26, 2010 at 8:36 PM
- Sew Flippin Cool said...
I need to make one of these. Not only for organization, but also to keep the kids from scuffing the back of my seats. I've included your tutorial in the post Must Make Monday- Bags on my blog, The Handmade Experiment. http://emilyflippinmaruna.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/must-make-monday-bags/
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this kit is so much fun to work with! i made two versions of my page, one with the wordart showing and one without, and put them both in a single preview:
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Debra - just sent you the link to my LO.
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These are looking so beautiful! You've reeled me in! I'm off to snag Holly's gorgeous kit ... sign me up!!!!!
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I haven't had that happen, but if I had pics with someone else's child on Facebook, I wouldn't be surprised if that child's family tagged themselves so that their own family could see them.
DH is such an enabler!
He goes on about how we can't afford all these new kids shows and the cruise and all that and today I walked in the house after dropping off Josh and he goes "You know, new kids tickets to Fenway aren't very expensive on ebay...why haven't you gotten any yet?"
So, because I don't need to be told twice-or usually even once-I was immediately on facebook, messaging my SIL to see if she wanted to go, she couldn't go, so I messaged another friend (because I'm sick of going to NK things on my own or being the one nobody really knows) and I'm waiting on her...and I just know that at some point after the show I'm going to get grief about it...but this is one of the few things I completely enjoy doing and dammit I'm going to do it!
I had just caught her on twitter and she said she was bummed because her sisters didn't want to go, so she wasn't going. So when my SIL said she couldn't, I messaged her.
There is some serious feuding going on because they're touring with the backstreet boys, LOL. It's like you have to be team nkotb or team bsb. I like both.
Kate, I think that kids just don't think sometimes the way we do. I bet Josh just got some on his hand and figured that the wall was a good place to wipe it off....I mean it's gross so better on the wall than on my hand. Plus the wall gets magically cleaned off. He's probably not thinking hey what can I do to gross out and annoy mommy.
And I hope that you get the tickets! Everyone should get to do things that they enjoy.
I confess....I don't know how all you ladies in the south do this. Yesterday it was 94 (and humid) here. Last time it was that hot was two years ago. Today it's supposed to be 96 or 97 and humid and break a record. Normally in a whole summer, we might have a couple of days above 90....but this is early still in the summer.
And it's not like you can enjoy this outside because of all the little knats and bugs flying around with it being so humid.
I would much rather have it be cold than this! I like 50's and 60's best.
I just don't go outside after 8:30 am or before 7:30 pm between Memorial Day and September 30. Unless it is to swim and I tend to think it is too hot to even swim, but JoJo wants to go so I go...
I hate summer.
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
Bridget that pic is just hilarious!!!
Kate, I also wouldn't worry about the poop. Ky used to do that, it is when I made him start cleaning up his own bathroom. My younger brothers all did it too. I figured it was a gross boy thing. My older brother did it as well and his thinking was similar to what Jennifer said, he didn't want poop on his hands/fingers so he put it on the wall. He also used to wipe his boogers all over the wall by his bed, we shared a room so I had to constantly look at the booger wall. That was when I realized, as a 5 year old, that boys were some gross creatures.
It is suppose to be the same temp here today Jennifer. Ninety four is not that bad IMO anymore. Once you are in the hot weather for a while, you get used to it. It took me about 3 years to get used to it but now as long as it is around 95 or less and there is a breeze, I'm fine. I admit though that I do hate summers here and long for October in May since we have such mild winters and it is wonderful weather IMO from the end of September through the middle of May.
Forgot to mention that my DH completely healed from his hurt knee. I didn't even say "told you so." But he did cut me some, I-know-you-want-to-say-I-told-you-so looks LOL. And I did, but I don't like to do that. I just told him I was happy it was nothing and reinforced the idea of waiting a day or two to check for improvement before going to the doctor. He also cancelled the MRI, which even though we didn't have to pay anything for, I'm happy he did because I hate wasting expensive medical procedures, plus if too many people in our group act like him and go get all these procedures for sprains, then our premium may go up and I don't want that. I did tell him that, which was the main reason he cancelled it.
Chrissy, it isn't so much how hot it gets ( though it does get HOT, over 110 degrees in August), it is the duration. Two summers ago we had over 40 days straight, EVERY SINGLE DAY over 100. I am sure it is just like winter up there where there comes a point where it just starts making you crazy.
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
I'm miserably cold the second it gets below 75. I hate it.
Right now we don't have a/c in our windows because we expected to be moving early July (it's now going to be later July) and it's not normally this warm so early in the year yet. We've already had a couple 90+ days, and tomorrow is going to be 94 (I'm excited ) I was just telling Rich that I was liking not having a/c and he said, "Don't get used to it."
If it were me by myself, I wouldn't have a/c at all.
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Will one of you ladies in the hot zones puh-lease send me a box of sunshine and warmth? I love heat - don't even mind humidity that much. Not only is the Bay Area a lot cooler than my hometown of Los Angeles, but it's been unseasonably cold and rainy lately. It's making me want to wear black all the time and become insufferably too hip for everything.
People are always surprised when they hear I grew up right here. I'm so sensitive to getting cold, they think I must have been raised in S Cal or a desert.
On another note, I just found out that my dad, aunt, uncle and their spouses got together to celebrate my grandmother's 86th birthday this weekend. No one said a word to us about it. While I don't see her often, I do feel left out and a bit offended. Dad was just at our house Wednesday too. I don't understand them.
I have a hard time breathing outside with it like this. I would die without AC. Once it's past the very low 70's during the day, my central air goes on. I think that I would divorce DH if he tried to not let me have AC....I'm that crabby when I'm hot and sweating.
Plus Cosmo needs central air....she is too much a princess to be that hot. When it's nice out, she will dwadle outside....when it's like this, she's done and ready at the door faster than when it was 2 degrees out there!
Awww Chrissy.....I would be hurt by that also. I don't get families like that either.
Myles, bay area would be my ideal weather! If it wasn't for the earthquakes, cost of living, and population density....I would love to live in SF.
I don't mind the cold (though it gets old after a while) but am not that fond of snow...well it will be fine once I can be retired and only drive on days I want to. But heat, nope turns me into a whining crabby b*tch if I have to be in it for too long. Thank god DH knows me so well and puts up with me when we have traveled in summers! He's good about making sure that I can rest in shade if needed and that I have lots of water. He tolerates it better than I do.
What our men do to please us!!! I'm also much like you are in the heat when it's cold out. I get so cranky and miserable I can't stand myself. On the plane in from AZ it was the 1st or 2nd week of April and the pilot told us there would be snow showers when we landed in Ithaca. I actually had tears come to my eyes and had to really fight to keep from crying.
Whoever wants the really hot weather can have it! I don't hate it-in fact I prefer it, over winter, but boy I wish we had a longer spring. I could really live where it's in the 60's and 70's year round. It's already going to be in the 90's here this week.
I'm sorry you were left out Chrissy that stinks.
It didn't appear any of my other cousins were there, either, but Tim & I are the only ones that really live close. I mean, that park is just 2 blocks from my mom's house. We would have gone if we would have known.
I remember when my dad's wife had a bday party for my dad but she didn't tell us. We stopped in and saw everyone there. She was very pissy to us.
What does keep me up at night is the threat of tsunami. See this map?
See Daly City just beneath San Francisco? The fault line juts out into the ocean just a bit offshore right there where my town of Pacifica lies. My house is up a canyon and 400+ ft above sea level so I feel ok about a tsunami striking while we're all at home, but Bodhi's little pre-preschool is 3 blocks from the ocean and the thought of him being there during a tsunami freaks me out. The school had to close down the day of the Japan tsunami.
When I play a tsunami out in my head, I think which way the giant wall of water would flow. The one mildly reassuring thought is that there is a 4-lane highway between Bodhi's school and the water (one has to cross an overpass to get to the ocean), and that road is kind of dug out below sea level, so the school actually sits at least 50 ft above it. The water would have to fill the highway, and still rise up above it in order to get to the kids. In the best case scenario, the highway would act as a super-sized gutter and send all the water a mile or so south. I mean who knows. It depends on just how much water there is. Enough of it, and it would still be very, very bad.
I don't think there's ever been a real tsunami near San Francisco (though Santa Cruz got hit with some bad waves from the Japan one, and there are tsunami evacuation route signs everywhere). So let's hope we never have to find out.
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chrissy, that stinks that they didn't think to invite you to your gramma's celebration. I think anyone who's a gramma must not feel like they have a lot of birthdays left. It would be nice to have as many loved ones around as possible for the ones you do have.
kate, that's a really sweet story about your DH. I can say mine has never bought an article of clothing for me besides maybe a sweatshirt.
Chrissy! Why would they do that? How rude.
Jennifer, we are near 100 degrees over here by madison. It's sweltering. Thank goodness my daycare is in the basement and it is so cool down here that I wore a sweater for most of the morning. I felt bad not bringing the kids outside but I don't want Sawyer in this heat.
Dbf buys me clothes and he usually does a good job. At any rate, he buys things that most woman would probably like. ( I'm so not his type it's crazy.) A few things I have in my closet that he bought that I will never wear but that I do appreciate: A hot pink pair of sweatpants that say Juicy Couture on the butt 2)A very soft angora wool half sweater. (I don't like those. They're like...sleeves and that's it) 3) a very expensive, very heavy gold and ruby necklace. It's beautiful but so so so not my style.
I have a lot of things from his that I do wear though.
I remember once when his mom visited us in Hawaii and she sort of sprung it on us that she'd watch Savana (she was our only then) so we could go out. I was ready in like 7 minutes. She said, "Wow, it must be great for M that you don't do anything to yourself and can get ready so fast. He's used to the opposite, his ex was always dolled up."
Hmmmm. Is it just me or do her compliments sound like insults? lol
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Two weeks ago my colleagues and I went to lunch with a member of our team for her upcoming marriage. She was dressed up as a bride to be and after that we went to the restaurant, near our office building. The lunch was great, the bride to be enjoyed herself and ofcourse pictures were taken.
Three of the pictures made me think "great, this could be part of a comic!".
On picture number one she looked pleasantly surprised and you can see her think "hey, what's happening?". On the second it looks like she is thinking "yum, that looks tasty!" and on the third she looks a bit sad, thinking "O no, nothing left... where did it all go??"
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|Arthur Hilton (East Yorks) was my grandfather, killed in action 3rd May 1915. He left a widow, Hilda Hilton, daughter Hilda aged 7 (my mother) and a son Leslie aged 3.
Arthur Hilton is listed on the roll of honour in Beverley Minster and his name appears on the Menin Gate.
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From the effects of Serjeant 1062 Arthur Hilton, 1st/4th Bn. East Yorkshire Regiment, killed in action 3rd May 1915, aged 31. The husband of Hilda G. Brown (formerly Hilton), of 17, William St., Porter St., Hull, he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. His battalion, as part of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division, was engaged in the Battle of St Julien, the second phase of the Second Battle of Ypres.
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Funeral services for Robert L. "Bob" Hamilton will be held Friday, May 13, 2011 at 10 a.m. at First United Methodist Church in Minden. Officiating will be the Rev. John Cannon. Interment will follow at Gardens of Memory in Minden under the direction of Rose-Neath Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 5 until 7 p.m. today (Thursday, May 12, 2011) at Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Minden.
Bob was born Oct. 8, 1939 in El Dorado, Arkansas and unexpectantly passed away May 11, 2011 in Shreveport following a long illness. He was a longtime resident of Minden; he was a graduate of Louisiana Tech University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and served in the United States Army. He was founder and co-owner of Custom Fiberglass Products, Inc. and a member of the First United Methodist Church in Minden.
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His parents, Ralph and Idelle Hamilton, preceded him in death.
He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Mary Ann Wilkins Hamilton of Minden; daughters, Haley Hancock and husband, Kendall of Cabot, Arkansas, Dianna Horning and husband, Brian of Norman, Oklahoma and Suzanne Leslie and husband, Bryant of Cabot, Arkansas; sisters, Peggy Bailey of St. Augustine, Florida and Bonny Hickman and husband, Joe of Hot Springs, Arkansas; grandchildren, Charlie and Mary Catherine Hancock, Sam, Clay and Lily Horning and Will Leslie.
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A rare release from this seldom cited and unique trumpeter, joined here by a glorious ensemble comprising harpist Zeena Parkins, violinist Carla Kihlstedt and Ikue Mori (electronics). With a guest appearance by singer Amy Denio. Timelines is a fairly abstract but highly disciplined work that models cosmic, animal and human histories. In the first piece we move from the birth of the sun to the present Ice Age; in the second from Dinosaurs and Mammals (via various mass extinctions); in the third from Homo Sapiens' appearance in Africa until 2000 years ago. Speech emerges only near the end. Lesli has supplied an annotated key to the time/music parallels which we will send with the copies of this CD so long as stocks last. It's otherwise pretty impossible to characterise the music, which is complex, open, multilinear, contemporary, transparent, directed and understatedly brilliant. Nicely packaged too. L
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Myles, my first question after reading that is -
What result do you hope to achieve by confronting your sister?
(Is it something for you, or is it something for her?)
My follow-up questions are:
Do you think you have a chance of achieving it? And do you think it is a reasonable goal?
These are the things my dh always asks me whenever I get in a quandary about confronting someone that is causing me emotional turmoil. Frequently, I end up talking through it enough that I realize I just want the emotional satisfaction of having the last word, or having made my point, or saying whatever to prove something, or telling my side, but when I start walking through the whole process about what the end result will be (satisfaction from having the last word? really? when all it's going to do is just reopen the argument, and the other person probably won't just take my brilliant incisive logic as the ultimate conclusion?) I realize that what I hope to achieve (maybe peace?) and what I am yearning to provide (justice?) are possibly quite opposed to each other.
So before I blather on and use up my daily parentheses ration, think a bit on exactly what you want to happen, and how you see it going, and how you see her reacting to this confrontation. I know it's hard.
Gwenn, I'd keep an eye on that HIPAA violator. As far as the smell commentator, I know it's rude, but sometimes people can't help but blurt out what kinds of things cross their minds, and it wouldn't occur to them that you might be offended, esp. if she realized that is was because of the AC and obviously wasn't because of your habit of peeing in the corner.
And it was so trivial of her ... the child said "bath" but instead of "th" it was more like a t with a stream of air. Wasn't a th in my book - wasn't exactly a t - but in the moment I wrote /t/. And she said "Oh, it wasn't a t. I would call that a th." But it WASN'T. So I later changed it to more precise t(h) meaning there was a stream of air. I hope she saw that when she read my protocol. *****!
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Myles - I am reading the Buddhism for Mothers book (it was you who recommended it, correct?). Love it - about halfway through and I can see how it would be helpful in stressful situations. Made me interested in buddhism as a philosophy and way of dealing with regular old life. I have found some podcasts to listen to and explore a bit.
I had a dream that my dad died last night. Ugh. I hate that. He already died 10 years ago - I hate it when my brain makes me live through it again.
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
Myles, I think I'd let dh tell him alone and I am really digging Lydia's advice. Wish someone had said that to me when I was battling my brother's wife a few years ago. I still cringe at some of the things we said to each other. Luckily we now pretend it never happened.
Gwenn, I would be so annoyed by both those scenarios.
My brother and one of my greatest girlfriends came over tonite. I adore them. She's a beekeeper and brought me some honey she harvested.
I spent the whole evening either breastfeeding or pacing and patting my fussy Sawyer but it was still a lovely time. They just left to go to Madison and likely to the capitol square where things are absolutely nuts right now as they passed that ridiculous budget repair bill in a very shady way.
katycat, what an awful dream. I hope it didn't throw you into a spin for the rest of the day.
Thanks for the advice and support about my sis, guys. It sounds like we're all on the same page with letting DH handle the actual talking to BIL, and that's fine. A part of me feels like it's a form of meddling for either me or Steve to "tattle" on my sister, but maybe that's just me still letting my sister get into my head. As you all can see, I'm taking no pleasure in this whole fiasco, trying to distance myself from it as much as possible, and yet I'm sensitive to the slightest suggestion from anyone that I might enjoy having this to hold over her.
Steve, OTOH, is very clear on what the "right" thing to do is in this situation. His own brother learned that his wife of 20 yrs had been cheating on him, got a divorce, got the house, main custody of the kids and after a lot of turmoil is happy with a new girlfriend. And all this happened within the last year. So he's looking at my BIL as though he's his brother in this situation and feels like he absolutely deserves to know.
I agree that BIL deserves to know. I just don't know if we're the way he should find out.
Whatever he does, I told DH this weekend that I'm going to stand by him no matter what goes down. Plus, I warned him not to expect BIL to thank him for the news.
Here's why: My sister's most recent lover is only one founder/executive of the company they all started. 5 years ago, my sister cheated on her DH with another guy who started the company with her, who also happened to be her ex-boyfriend from age 20-22. (A 3rd founder/executive is my sister's ex-boyfriend from age 21-27; yes there is overlap there. She cheated on ex-bf #1 with ex-bf #2. She also cheated on ex-bf #2 with my BIL. See the pattern?) My dh is utterly disgusted by her serial infidelity along with the "incest" and says she's being "passed around" by all the officers of the company.
Anyway, with the cheating incident 5 yrs ago, BIL found out, had a talk with her then-lover (ex-bf #1) behind closed doors and came to some sort of "gentlemen's agreement" with him that no one knows anything about. Since then, my sister has continued to go into work and see the guy every day, and this guy comes to all their parties, and even GAVE them half a million dollars for them to put down on their current house. Nowhere in there did my sister's husband put his foot down about the other guy's wife needing to know. In fact, he sees her at parties and just pretends his own wife hadn't been banging that poor woman's husband.
So that's the reason why I say that BIL might not thank DH for the information. BIL himself has a history of keeping other people's infidelities a secret from their spouses. There must be some part of him that believes that people might be better off not knowing.
DH says he's fully aware that BIL might not see things the same way, but says that he's going to go with what his own moral compass is telling him to do. Even if BIL tells him to go eff himself for telling him, DH says he'll still walk away feeling like he did what he thinks he should have done. (And that's why I love my DH.)
Along those same lines - and to answer your question, Lydia - I don't expect to get any satisfaction from my sister out of talking to her. I guess I didn't make that clear in my previous post about her. She's bi-polar, an alcoholic, and has an entirely different value system from my own. No, I can't see her sitting up and realizing what an a-hole she's been for the last couple of decades.
I just don't like leaving things unsaid if I really wish I'd said them. The last 4-5 months have been me doing what I call "s#i+-boxing" which is essentially me meditating negatively about her and consequently building a box of s#i+ in my head full of these negative thoughts.
The only other time I was in a situation like this was with that Ayn Rand ex-boyfriend guy I keep bringing up in here. He was so, so unjust and evil towards me. I stayed mad with him for 3 months and tried to bottle it all in, knowing I would never get through to him or make him see the error of his ways if I tried. I finally let it all out in a 13-page letter. Of course, he never conceded to even half my points (and there was another lame reconciliation attempt followed by a messy abrupt break-up that probably could have been avoided if I'd just continued not speaking to him). Still, I look back and feel good about the way I articulated my position on the whole matter in those 13 pages.
Hopefully, it won't be 13 pages this time around, but I'd like to at least try to make my position as clear as possible, even if I know she'll never agree with it. I have the same painful knot in my neck today that I had when I was mad at that evil ex-boyfriend of mine. They are the only 2 people who've given me this knot.
The plan is to make my case... to say 'Here's your position, and now here's my position. We differ on A, B & C and as a result of those differences, this is how you've offended/hurt me. I don't trust you and can't be close to you for those reasons.' I'll leave it at that, but leave the door open to her for future reconciliation if she should ever awaken to my point of view.
I know it won't be as simple or clean as that, but I just have to try. The thing is, I still love my sister. I wouldn't put this much effort into it if it were someone I didn't care about.
I confess, you guys are totally my sounding board for the situation. I'm working through all my thoughts and feelings as I type them out to you. So and thank you for being here for me.
My friend's sister works for the FDA, and even though she signed a non-disclosure agreement about the foods she tests, she did inform her family in no uncertain terms that they should stay extremely far away from Splenda. And still I use it on a regular basis. I'm workin' on kicking the habit, I swear. It's one of my last major vices...
I'm actually a little behind on stuff I have to do, so please forgive me if I don't log in tomorrow after laying all my problems on you guys. I really do appreciate having you guys here to listen to me.
I don't know when it's time to speak up in my own job. I said something on Friday and John was all sweet and understanding and sorry...but then Monday he was a tyrant and he even threw what I said up in my face. Wasn't surprised by that at all. He's quickly becoming a person I dislike. I can only make so many excuses for someone's bad behavior.
I know there was a lot more I wanted to say, but so much was posted I can't remember it all.
That's pretty freaky, Myles.
Sorry about your dream, Katycat.
I just had coffee with 3 other Americans I just met and it was so lovely. I'm happy.
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I saw the home page. Very disturbing. That name was just too coincidental, though.
BTW, I hadn't intended to come here. I just logged into APA on autopilot. I thought I was using a bookmark for something work-related. My fingers got the best of me. LOL.
Your subconscious mind wants to be here.
I just had a lunch date with Rich & Conner. Today is Rich's bday and he gets it off paid every year. It was a nice treat except Rich is in horrible tooth pain and has a dentist appointment for later this afternoon. It kinda put a damper on things. And Conner wasn't in the mood to be fully cooperative.
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Just makes me smile to look at. I would do it now but DH said this weekend. I can't believe he even agreed so will go with that. I don't know why it makes a difference if today or Saturday but it does to him. He likes a day or two to mentally prepare is what he says (he did that with the bloodwork we had done too...could have done it Friday after the appt but he wanted Monday so he could "mentally prepare" for it.
I went to an early lunch....but I'm pretty tired today coming in so early. I pretty much want to eat everything in site. Good thing I'm at my desk and can't really eat at my desk (my office I can but not out in public area). Don't want to cook tonight either. Think that I will stop off and pick up a take and bake pizza from the grocery store (they are very good...better than delivery pizza places).
Oh and on top of being tired, I'm ovulating and in pain from that. Which kind of sucks to have deal with that and AF and all....and have it be pretty useless.
While I don't have the magnitude of sister problems that Myles does, I do have recurring issues with my sister. So every few weeks, or every few months, and definitely a couple times a year dh hears me muttering about my sister and pacing around and then he hears more than he wants to hear about what she did or said and how she does this all the time and how she never changes and then what I want to say to her.
This thing is pretty useful for one-time issues as well as things like this with my sister, because we have the same old problems all the time, and I can predict pretty accurately how she'll react to anything. We have gone through periods of not speaking to each other and she holds grudges for decades. Every year around the holidays, she brings up how I was late for Christmas in 1987.
I think part of what dh is hoping to attain by reinforcing this with me is to not hear about my problems with my sister. But oh well. It's actually worked pretty well for me so far. Every time I start muttering again, he asks me what I want. I tell him. He asks if it is reasonable (given whatever situation I'm in with my sister). Usually it's not, so I come up with a reasonable goal. My sister and I have gotten along better since I've done this.
For work, I've started doing this too. And even if it's meant that I get less off my chest AT work, I think it's been better for me professionally that when I do actually say something, it is with a concrete goal and a solution in mind. If I just need to complain about someone or something, I have an outlet (like a co-worker, or a husband, or you guys) who will help me problem-solve without actually impacting the problem.
For your boss, Chrissy, for example, I particularly don't think it's a question of taking the high road, and I especially think that this is a good time to question what you hope to achieve by confronting him or talking to him about how he makes you feel, especially since he frequently uses any communication against you. If you hope to be able to just vent and make yourself feel better, that may only help temporarily, and will probably only hurt you in the long run. If you think that by talking to him candidly about how he's making you feel, he will change, that is a better goal, but then you have to question whether that is realistic, and it is probably not.
So if you want to vent, I would vent elsewhere- not to him. If you want him to stop behaving like a jerk, I would start documenting with the goal of reporting him. If you want to just get along and not make waves, I'd minimize contact and try to zen out as much as possible. That's all I mean by thinking about goals and results. Not taking the high road at all.
This is something I'm still trying to learn myself. Sorry it was so long.
I wouldn't be able to cope with life if I couldn't vent to Rich. I can whine about the same thing to him a million times over and he doesn't ever seem to get tired of hearing about it. I need him!
I can't avoid my boss. Like I said we're in a small room and it's just us. If I ignore him or if I talk to him, he has something to say. I'm trying to decide between just finding another job or going over his head. Yesterday he irritated me enough that I actually thought, "Why should I go? I haven't done anything wrong."


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Description:Intel® Xeon® Processor X5460 For the DL160 G5 and DL160 G5p(3.16GHz/Quad-core/12MB/120W/1333MHz FSB)Full Processor Option KitPart Number(s)Manufacturer Part# 446085-B21
HP Processor Kits:
Manufacturer Part# 446085-B21
This is the full processor option kit. It includes the
Processor(s), Heat-Sink(s), Fan(s), Thermal paste
and VRM (Voltage Regulator Module) where required.
Overview:Information technology professionals rely on HP quality to ensure maximum productivity. As the power of applications processors memory adapters and storage devices increases high-end computer users are seeking ways to optimize their system performance. HP provides leading solutions adding new levels of performance availability flexibility and management.
CategoryProliant Processor
Sub-CategoryIntel Xeon
Part Number446085-B21
Products ID458304
Product TypeProcessor
Processor CoreQuad-Core
Clock Speed3.16GHz
L2 Cache12MB
Bus Speed1333MHz
64-bit ProcessingYes
Processor SocketSocket LGA771
Thermal Design Power120W