Lance and I did our taxes last night. Hooray! (Actually, I really don't mind doing our taxes. There's something gratifying about seeing your net worth for the year, and then raging against The Man for taking so much of it.)
We decided that I wouldn't edit for EditMyEnglish anymore, since I now get taxed at 50% for it. (It's that dang The Man again.) Kind of sad, since that was my last link to the grown-up working world; but then again, I don't really have that much spare time anymore and what precious little I do have I don't want to spend working. (I'd rather read or sleep (hah!) or blog.)
We got a decent return, and decided to do our patriotic duty and spend it. Hey, just doin' our part to help boost the economy, right?
So what exciting purchase did we make? A family cruise? A pony? New Wii games?
No - way better.
A water softener.
Woo-hoo!
We've been wanting to get one for about a year now. But we didn't know anything about water softeners, and then all these guys came to our house and told us our water was slowly killing us and then tried to sell us $2500 water softeners. And we just weren't willing to spend that much on an appliance. And they made them seem so complicated and important, and it was just more than we wanted to deal with.
And it still seemed like we really didn't know that much about them, and none of our friends or family knew much either. (Water softeners are like the red-headed step-child of the major appliance kingdom. No one notices or pays attention to them. They're just kinda there. Or not, as in our case.)
Anywho, we knew we needed one because our water is so freakin' hard. And we were tired of waiting. And we had been putting it off because we just didn't want to deal with it.
So we went to Sears, talked to a salesman named Gary for a while, and then made Gary very happy.
Like I said - just doin' our patriotic duty. I feel like singing the national anthem. :)
We decided that I wouldn't edit for EditMyEnglish anymore, since I now get taxed at 50% for it. (It's that dang The Man again.) Kind of sad, since that was my last link to the grown-up working world; but then again, I don't really have that much spare time anymore and what precious little I do have I don't want to spend working. (I'd rather read or sleep (hah!) or blog.)
We got a decent return, and decided to do our patriotic duty and spend it. Hey, just doin' our part to help boost the economy, right?
So what exciting purchase did we make? A family cruise? A pony? New Wii games?
No - way better.
A water softener.
Woo-hoo!
We've been wanting to get one for about a year now. But we didn't know anything about water softeners, and then all these guys came to our house and told us our water was slowly killing us and then tried to sell us $2500 water softeners. And we just weren't willing to spend that much on an appliance. And they made them seem so complicated and important, and it was just more than we wanted to deal with.
And it still seemed like we really didn't know that much about them, and none of our friends or family knew much either. (Water softeners are like the red-headed step-child of the major appliance kingdom. No one notices or pays attention to them. They're just kinda there. Or not, as in our case.)
Anywho, we knew we needed one because our water is so freakin' hard. And we were tired of waiting. And we had been putting it off because we just didn't want to deal with it.
So we went to Sears, talked to a salesman named Gary for a while, and then made Gary very happy.
Like I said - just doin' our patriotic duty. I feel like singing the national anthem. :)
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