I learned that the song “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis exists. And that it is “F*ckin’ Awesome”.
To see if you enjoy it as well, check out the YouTube video below. I must say, this song really makes me want to go thrift store shopping (you hear that, lazyhippimama?). Maybe Goodwill needs to use it in their TV commercials or something. Or maybe Savers?
This week I learned that if I don’t leave the house much, then I don’t spend much money. It makes for long, boring days, but at least I am not hanging out at Meijer just for something to do. Which then leads to unnecessary spending.
This week I also was reminded of something I already knew: If you go to the dollar store and say “Gosh, everything is only a dollar”, then you end up leaving with 20 items;P
This week I learned that I can still write fiction.
I pulled out an old short story and have been working on it. I hope to debut it on my blog in the coming weeks.
I declared the story “finished” probably 18 years ago. But something kept nagging me about it–a scene here or there that I knew needed a rewrite, facts that were just a little bit off.
I thought this story just kept nagging me because I consider it the “best” story I have written (more for its length than anything else). But, in retyping and revising it, I realized that it speaks to a deeper part of me than I ever realized before. That this story was going to give me an opportunity that life will never give me.
Although I thought it was finished, it has a few more story lines that need to play out;)
This week I learned that taxes are all about rules (I LOVE rules!)…except for the exceptions (I HATE exceptions!).
For the last five days (including this morning) I took a 20 hour free tax class (i.e. unpaid training) for a potential tax preparation job (that I have to test high enough to get).
The media has banged the drum this week that employment is up. I think the 15 strangers sitting in a room for four hours a day on their own time for a 50/50 chance at a job shows that there is no improvement in my area of the country.
I also learned that in cases of divorced parents, if the child is treated as the qualifying child of the noncustodial parent, the noncustodial parent can claim an exemption and the child tax credit for the child, and the custodial parent can claim the child as a qualifying child for head of household filing status, the credit for child and dependent care expenses, and the earned income credit.
Did your head explode yet?
I am thankful for this potential job opportunity. But it totally drives me nuts to be learning this huge wealth of knowledge and not know whether I will actually be able to put it to use or not.
The Valastro Family
It is a family business and their family is huge! Being an only child, I am fascinated by watching how they negotiate their roles as family and employees (one sister doesn’t do so well at this. She is herself, and it doesn’t matter who she is interacting with). Buddy (the Cake Boss) has a very big ego, but I love it when something surprises him and his eyes bug out and he gets all worked up.
I am also addicted because I watch it on streaming Netflix and Cake Boss has closed captioning. Other shows, like say Hot in Cleveland, do not. I need closed captioning so I can watch while my toddler naps or sleeps at night & I will not wake him.
But today, today is a sad day. I have watched all the seasons of Cake Boss on Netflix (all four seasons:( Now, what will I do?
“Not” stalk the cast members on Facebook, perhaps?
Ralphie Boy on Cake Boss
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