Oy and Double Oy...
Doing taxes...
Been doing them for 40 years....
Started mid March -
And that was after I'd already sorted countless receipts
And tried to figure out what new forms, if any, I had to do this year,
Due to my mother's death.
It was challenging to do new forms for my daughter's college stuff the past two years...
Turns out there are 10 Federal forms and six state forms...
I think that's it for this year. I
've already redone the 'final' 1040 twice -
Which also meant fixing other ones connected to the 1040.
Thought I was in the home stretch.
And now I have to do it again -
Which means I have to redo most of both the state and the federal forms.
I keep missing things.
I add and re add.
And pencil in and pen it in...
And tried a little bit of white out,
But that's not clean enough.
And this is not good for my eyeballs and brain.
So I try not to stress about it.
It is what it is.
I know people will say go to an accountant.
An accounting friend gave me some advice.
I visited H&R Block and got some advice there.
To hand over everything now for someone else to do doesn't make sense.
Years ago - twice, I went to accountants to have taxes done.
Each said that the IRS would love me because I keep such good records...
So I do my own.
At some point I will go to someone else to do them -
Once I don't have to try and explain everything I've done and why...
When I have fewer forms -
And then not for three years after that -
Cause they can always ask for three years' returns.
If there's been mistakes over the years - they've been corrected and adjusted for by the government.
Side bar:
I was just looking for a can of coconut milk
To make the ginger carrot soup today
That's part of my supervised health cleansing diet this week
(Did a year ago under guidance of Cathy Sloan Gallagher -
And twice since then on my own-
Not quite as successful those times)...
COULD NOT FIND the can -
I knew it was in the lazy susan cabinet.
I remember putting it there after buying it yesterday -
And know that there was a can in there before that, too.
COULD NOT FIND THEM.
I asked my husband if he might look.
It was right there.
As soon as you open the door.
Enter stage right: VISUAL AGNOSIA:
It's hard to identify a single object in among a bunch of stuff.
I don't 'see' it.
So gave my brain a boost on sardines and multigrain toast with kim chi...
And heading in for ....
Round....50?
Of my taxes.
Side Bar:
Makes me think of the Netflix series, 'Wallander".
Kenneth Branagh plays a detective who develops Alzheimers,
After watching his father succumb to it.
I can relate.
W. is trying to organize his thoughts to solve a missing person case-
With many crumpled up pieces of paper littered about.
My office looks like a bomb hit it:
Piles and and piles of papers and files,
And cards
And music stuff, An
d garden stuff
And sewing stuff....
And I plan to get to all of it,
Bit by bit -
After the flippin' taxes are done.
While I don't think that I have Alzheimers
(It's not in my family genes)
I do wonder if Lyme Disease speeds up the aging process?
People try to say that the forgetfulness, etc, etc, etc, is due to aging.
No.
I wasn't like this before the Lyme Disease.
No where to anything like the degree of everything that's hit me
Since the Lyme.
Side Bar:
Had a neuro visit two weeks ago -
Dr. wants to rule out Multiple Sclerosis
And Neurological Lyme.
And has a bunch more tests planned.
I might not do all that's being asked.
To what end?
First test is the VEP:
Visual evoked potential...
Have to look at a checkerboard screen for forty five minutes.
I'm concerned about that literally making me sick -
Setting off an ocular migraine.
Called the office about it.
No one got back with an answer.
So I'll just close my eyes at some point I guess,
And see what that tells them.
...Until next time,
Still planning to head back to the six month point post Lyme:
Winter of 2016,
With a nutrition consult
And starting to chart my symptoms after my visit with J....
So much going on then.
Peace out,
Wishing you wellness.
Lisa
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