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It's the second most wonderful time of the year
Published on March 9, 2006 By Ms Mitchell In Humor
YESSSS!!!!
Today is the day we look forward to every year. As soon as it's past we count approximately 365 or so days till it comes again. We plan, we dream, we make lists. Maybe next year we'll start decorating the house for it and sending out cards. It's (insert trumpet fanfare here)

TAX RETURN DAY!

Tax Return Day is the one day a year I can afford to take my large family to a restaurant that doesn't have color pictures of the food on the menu. Then I let my little darling shop for whatever their little hearts desire (up to a certain predetermined dollar limit). With whatever is left, I get caught up on all my bills and eliminate all the debts I can.

Looking at it one way...It's ok to go crazy again because I just paid off my therapist.
My son can wear a cap and gown to graduation because I just paid the fee.
My car insurance is good for another six months (with two teenage sons...you know)
I can throw away these contact lenses I've been wearing these WAAAY past the recommended thirty days and buy a new box.
Hey! I can even buy some bras that have an underwire that is actually shaped like a U.

By morning I will be broke again. We will be counting the days untill next Tax Return Day. But for the moment I am square with everybody and that feels almost as good as Christmas spirit.

Comments
on Mar 09, 2006
And here I thought I was the only one who went a little mad on tax day.

Party on!
on Jun 06, 2006
This comes three months after you posted this ... I wanted to tell you that you have this great gift as a writer. I want to encourage it as much as possible. You have this great eye for detail and making connections that is at once familiar and disconcerting, poignant and funny, world-weary and wide eyed. Thanks for all the great writing you've shared on this site. From the snippets of your life that you've shared here, I imagine you've had quite the life. I know if you wrote a book, I'd buy it.

I can only imagine how crowded your life is, but for yourself and the rest of the world, I encourage (beseech) you to make time for your writing.

You're a real inspiration. Shalom and thanks, Buddah Moskowitz