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| I've been a bit tardy here and I'm awake rather early. It's after midnight. I slept early after doing tax stuff. I've not finished of course. Mostly getting my receipts all ready and then finding information about the invoices that I received from several vendors. It's not exciting but it will help my accountant, if he still wants to work for me, lol. I know that last year or before I was in such a state of mind that I had a very messy tax life at the beginning of the year. So I had to get all of these things gathered up and the accountant wasn't happy. Consequently, I had to go through an audit and then it went a bit like a slow pain in the butt and then they said it was ok, so I was relieved. It's not uncommon to go through audits esp if there's a lot of work on things and then there was that thing that I had to withdraw my IRA from my bank in toto and so the IRS saw that and got a bit sad at me for having a huge income all of a sudden, but that is as one has to go through. I learned to have to - well, it's water under the bridge. But if you happen to withdraw a large amount money like an IRA (even if you're over 59 1/2 that amount will figure in your taxes as income et cetera et cetera). Now I'm a little stressed a bit because of well, I've got job! I got interviewed and then they hired me on the spot. I had a similar experience with a co in the area but I didn't like the job. I'll be trained starting in the morning. They will have someone go through training with me over the internet. It's a bit of a change but these things are now de rigeur for people, I hear, so I'm quite happy to do this. I was thinking how it was fun to be an independent owner of a business but if the money gets a bit dried up there is a lot of misery! I am VERY GRATEFUL TO GOD for this good blessing. I've tried and tried to get a job, it didn't matter what but it had to be something that wasn't in science because I've had it with science jobs. I was looking into things like clerical, or, admin stuff, or some marketing and communication stuff. I also looked into regulatory but these jobs can be quite fraught with stresses like having to do things in a hurry or getting to talk to the FDA (which I've done) but it's really rather like going back to some place that I'm not happy about. This new job isn't quite clear about what things I'll do. They asked if I had a good typing speed (I think I do), and if I were accurate with math and statistics. I confessed that I only remember some things of statistics like the old T test, et cetera. I wasn't asked more about that. They asked about code of conduct and also about privacy. I'm sure they are very concerned about this. I'm thinking about getting an office space to lease or rent, or even a small one bedroom or smaller apartment nearby. That might be where I can do the work and it will be seaprate from my house. I'm not quite sure about this yet. I have called or emailed a few of these places, some from the Purdue research park spaces, and some apartments in town - like there is one by the post office and then one closer to Purdue, and one which seems to in th emiddle of the Chauncey area which might be cool. I'd go there and work then step into th estreet for a break and get a coffee from some fast food place, or even take nice walk. I'm not that sure of course. The pay might not be enough to pay for a lease monthly. The last choice is to get my one bedroom that I'm using as an office that has a nice new desk but it is a bit messy and I need to see if I can have Dad take away the bicycle (the stationary one) in th emiddle of the room. Then there's a short file cabinet that I hardly use. Then well, a little stand for the kitties (that was where they used to stay when in the room being acclimated to the house when they were first new babies). I will be doing some of this clearing up today God willing. I'm not quite up to all this activity. I do have to remove and 'perhaps file in the trash' some of the stuff (old files and books that I have no wish to read). Dad already went to Mass yesterday and I"ll be trying to clear up that office room. I have an idea that they'll be looking at me (it'll be like that) while training me, and there's a poster of something I bought a while ago- it came from St Joe's Indian School. It's a painting (not a real one) of an Indian camp with a teepee and a small fire on the ground. In the setting sun. It was a nice picture and I had some money to spend - I also bought some Indian-artist made things - like a nice reddish clay pot that now holds a lot of my pens and other things next to my laptop. I used to think I'd put it under St Michael the Archangel's statue in the living room where I'd put a few things as petitions to see if He would take a look and maybe bless them. I did this for a while, but Dad in his own way of things took it away and so I had to rescue it and now it's holding pens and penknives et cetera. Haha. I don't know what I'll do with the business I guess I'll not write creatively any longer. I will put my stories that I've got or started where they are. I have no real wish to get into another tizzy with hacking people. I cannot go through such a horrible experience again. I know that writing is fun and creating new characters and ideas is fun, espcially with my Muse, Colin. But it's not such a good income earner I've found. I've nothing more to add. I seem to be a bit dazed still by this rather good turn of events for me. I will be trying to save my money so I can get some things paid off (bills and taxes and such), and then I'll put away a few dollars so that I can at least get a few Christmas presents. I'd like to find a good thing to do for some favorite charities of mine. It's a secret, haha. Guess that is all she wrote, haha. Love, Mary |
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