Wow Suzi! I think I knew that but forgot.

I have never gone and except for 1 year, I have done my taxes myself. I can't do it anymore - lost patience and with the move I don't feel like dealing with the bullshit.

Do you have any tips for me (I booked an appt with them next month) in terms of having them prepare my taxes? I was planning to bring my last three years of returns and spreadsheets for tax items. Is that sufficient (she says, with her anal-retentive side coming out)

Heee. They probably only need last year's, but having multiple years can be helpful. And whatever paperwork you have for this year. With a move, you will need the mileage and all the costs related. The fact that you are even thinking about what to gather a month a head of time means you will not be one of those people pulling numbers off the ceiling.

means you will not be one of those people pulling numbers off the ceiling

I appreciate the optimism you have shown and I hope to live up to it.

I'm still holding a grudge that my parents were not avocado fans and subsequently I never had it until we moved to California when I was 16. First bite was like, "OMG I NEED ALL THE AVOCADOS NOW!" To think of all those years I missed with my precious!

Theatrical Buffistas, I've been reading about Peggy Clark (Kelley) this evening. She was a friend of my grandparents in their retirement, apparently! Very interesting woman I would never have heard of if my father hadn't happened to mention her in passing.

I will never forget my old coworker who lived in Santa Barbara, and was fairly eccentric in general, but she didn't like to go out to restaurants, because she only likes plain food and every place near her put avocados in everything.

85% of flowering plants are not only bisexual but hermaphroditic, i.e. their flowers have both male and female parts.

Well damn, I've been thinking of plant sex completely wrong for years. I always thought flowers:fruit::testes:ovaries. But apparently plants are kinkier than I thought.

Someone called into work to ask if we were hiring, because if we were, she had an excellent candidate to recommend to us! 1) We are not hiring. 2) If we were, we'd like for that person to submit their own resume and request for hire (rather than someone using their limited influence on the city counsel to bully us into hiring a buddy of theirs), and 3) your recommendation based on the fact that she is a Tree Steward means that she needs to seek volunteer hours to maintain that status, thusly, we would love to have her work for us for free! --immediate hangup.

I have found my sweet potato!

Sadly, I can't remember where I bought it, but what I baked right now is exactly the light yellow/light green sweet potato we eat in Jamaica. And if I can bake it, this means I can find it and make pudding, and where there is pudding, there is heaven.

I just need to remember where I bought it, and what it was called.

And stuff.

OH MY GOD my husband has been on the phone with the Houston realtor for like an hour. STOP TALKING, people.