Call It In

My friend, Cissie from Tacoma, just texted me. She says this blog will be easy from here on out. Just copy and paste. Regular days, I guess, is what she meant. But, I can’t abide by that. Taken to its logical extension, at some end point, I will be “calling in” or “copy and pasting” my entire life. Since this life is all I get, I would prefer to savor all the small changes every day. Sure, lots of things are the same every day. If you have a regular job, it’s 8am every M-F. Same thing for breakfast. Every day. Cup of coffee. Every day. Where are the subtle differences? This morning, my wife overslept. Had 20 mins to get ready. She did it. Do I need to ask her if the day was the same? No. And she did not get angry and take it out on me or he dog or whatever. She is balanced though at times she can’t see it. I have to remind her what kind of people she interacts with each day. Most are unstable. Makes you begin to believe your stability is the instability. Don’t believe that. Next. I fixed her coffee. No changes there. Except I put it in the Mercedes Benz cup I bought her when we got her car. This triggers better memories than some other cup. No change to routine, but big change to routine. I fixed her oatmeal. Same right? No, I had to grab a to go package in a cup, different type, threw in some fruit, plastic spoon, eat in car. Eating in the car is a change to routine. Every spoonful fraught with peril. I have a great story about that which I will save for another day. And this was a routine, normal, call it in day according to my friend Cissie. Btw, Cissie has lost 27 lbs this month. She is probably light headed. Lol.

Though, my morning was quite normal. My mornings are queued up to everyone else. I seldom have an appt early. Mostly because I don’t do early. For me, 11am is early. That way I can get everyone out. And me too. And run errands. Then work. It’s a living.

Today not much going here. Going to work direct. Maybe meet with the auditor. Don’t know and don’t really care. Yet. Will see.

Want to mention. Cissie just texted crowing about a cheap PC she bought. Personal opinion, no such thing in PC land. None of them last. All PCs just wear out or obsolete out within a couple years. I purchased my first Apple four years ago. It is still running like a champ. NO problems, no bugs. They send me operating system updates and new op system software for free. I am always up to date. The hardware itself, besides looking cool, never breaks. Nothing wears out. It’s awesome. I paid double what Cissie did for her bargain. If I knew how great Apples were, I would have paid more. Having a trouble free computer is priceless. Keep your bargains. I know, you buy cheap, and that’s what you get. Sorry Cissie.

Got to work. We have a new client, a bakery. So Katrina picked up a selection of pastries from the bakery. I had a chocolate almond bear claw. I think it was very good. I really like bear claws. I very, very seldom if ever go to a bakery for donuts or pastries. Back when Marika was little, before school and kindergarten, she spent her day with me. All day. Wherever I went she went. Work, errands whatever. Anyhow, she very often in he morning said “can we get a donut?”. So I would have one too. When my donut buddy started school I no longer had a little voice directing me to the bakery. So no donuts for the most part since 2000. Only occasional.

So, back to work. Auditor was there plugging away. She had no questions or concerns. I guess that’s a good thing. She will be outta here today. I won’t hear from her for a few weeks. Then, I don’t know. I am sure she will find a bad thing to beat me with.

Dropped of my car to detailers at 1. I need the seats and carpet shampooed. The seats have dog stains all over the back of them. I think dogs wipe their mouths and faces on them. Carpet is just dirty. Will see how they do.

I have a couple appointments later in the afternoon, till then office drudgery. I managed to prepare a few income tax returns. I think I do that for a living. Not so sure. I spend more time on admin than anything else.

Met with my 3 o’clock. They own a corporation and after 25 years are closing up shop. They would like advice on how to cheat the government with this soon to be closed corp. I don’t do “cheat” so we talked about what the corp can do before it is closed and done. Hard to handle some requests, have to be diplomatic. These folks closed my office door in order to talk. Always a bad sign. They left happy.

My 4 o’clock just needed help with a notice received from the IRS. We called together answered a few questions and voila the rep said you will have your refund in 9 weeks tops. Good outcome. Client ok. We shot the poop for a few minutes. That’s half of my job, talking to people, calming them, making them laugh. And here I thought I was an accountant.

Worked on a few more letters till 5. Cara gave me a ride to the detailer. Dropped me off. I have one thing to say, wow was my car clean and shiny.

Remember, the car has 211k miles on it. And it looks new. Sorta like me.

Today, being Tuesday, has always been taco Tuesday. We bring home take out from a local carniceria. Today no exception was made. I picked up carnitas and chile verde for dinner. I should mention, I also tried to pick up the Rx right before the food. Had same luck as yesterday. Doctors office did not respond to pharmacy.

After getting home I impressed Emily with how amazing my car looks. She is jealous. Can’t blame her.

Dinner was fabulous as always. After eating I spent time in the kitchen helping emily prepare food for the first day of school. I’m a saint I think. I will never meet the people who will eat this food. And I will never know the kids in the class. I am back office support. Unnamed and ignored. Only Emily knows.

Well, it’s a work day tomorrow so we are already headed to bed. Nothing more to share today or want to share. See you all tomorrow.