[HairOfTheDog]

Good Morning!

Penny, skiing again! - What a life! hope it is clear for you! How many more weeks are they gonna still have snow up there? - Where do you ski, anyhow? I mostly skied at Crystal.

Rosie, sorry you have taxes on top of other money trouble! - I got a good refund but ecurbh will owe. Is it your band income? or are you claiming more than one exemption on your W-2?

[RosieCotton]

I'm assuming it's the more than one exemption thing? Dunno what else it could be. I barely made anything with the band...most of the gigs we did were for free...so I didn't think I even needed to include those. I would think unless you made over a hundred or something over the course of the year, no one is going to care.

But I could swear I just checked one exemption.

Then, I also got one unemployment check this year, plus what little was in my retirement fund at the company I was working for. So those may have done it, I don't know!

It's mostly just the timing that makes it so tough. Otherwise I wouldn't mind so much. Ah well. Such is life.

[Penny1]

Hehehe....what a day! Everone at work is going to be SO jealous when I show up with the sunburn I got from skiing in the sunshine today. It was gorgeous up there! I went to Crystal, which is where I go when I'm skiing the lifts. When I want to do backcountry or a lot of cross-country climbing and mucking around, I go to Mt. Baker. Usually on a day like today, I'll head up to Mt. Baker, just for the scenery, but I didn't have time to go that far away today.

I have a new pair of skis to break in, and I absolutely LOVE them!

I almost feel guilty for having so much fun!