<p>I just remembered…about 20 years ago I made a couple of sundresses for my daughter’s Cabbage Patch doll! I used the same method my mother used to make simple dresses for my dolls when I was little. 
:)</p>
<p>When did my D get to be so old? I know she’s married & in grad school but…it’s still a shock to think how many years have gone by. (Need a smilie here but can’t think which one.)</p>
<p>More than a smilie…I need a drink!</p>
<p>Bump.</p>
<p>I need marmots to take my taxes to the post office.</p>
<p>On second thought, perhaps they can mobilize the ■■■■■■ to form a babysitting club and earn enough to pay them for me too?</p>
<p>Un-bump.</p>
<p>I don’t want to think about taxes: 2007’s, nor 2008 quarterly, either.</p>
<p>Two words, learned via bitter experience: Registered Mail.</p>
<p>SB, I learned that same lesson. </p>
<p>The local (dive) bar was advertising a drink for today only: The IRS (“I’m Really Screwed.”) - I have never been in there, but I am definitely going in for one of those tonight. who cares what’s in it?</p>
<p>^^^ a Screwdriver with a twist and some salt on the rim to rub into the wounds.:D</p>
<p>Oh no! I filed electronically for the first time in my life and I just sent the checks by regular mail. Don’t tell me I have doomed myself to beaurocratic hell! That’s it. I’m parking here in the Alley. Do we have an extradition agreement with the US government?</p>
<p>No we do not! Marmots do not recognize the IRS. (Listen to her, she’s only been dropping by for a few weeks and already she’s acting like she runs the joint!)</p>
<p>Can anyone tell, is the sun over the marmot’s arm yet? It’s really been one of those days.</p>
<p>mafool, you’ve been a regular since the first day you showed up. </p>
<p>I could use a big one, to help me procrastinate dealing with the 10,000 things I’m avoiding right now. Please do not extradite me to carpool, work, grocery store, dishes, errands, dentist, parents, or ANYONE resembling a slacker.</p>
<p>awwwww. bats her eyelashes behind the umbrella in her drink.</p>
<p>You know, I think I’ll actually try to find some of those drink umbrellas. You can’t have too many smiles in a day, can you?</p>
<p>Okay I am pouring champagne right now (that’s a lie I am having a Jack and Coke Zero)</p>
<p>The reason for the champagne is our taxes are done. The second reason is I am making my New Years resolution 260 days early…next year I will not procrastinate and do my taxes as soon as I have all of the paperwork, instead of spending non-stop for 3 days! </p>
<p>So I raise my glass to all of you…Happy NEW YEAR…only 30 more days until they say our taxes for 08 are paid!</p>
<p>Ok, just got done checking which post offices are open LATE tonight. H forgot to include one form for his mother’s taxes (it’s sitting nicely on the kitchen table) so he gets to do two post office trips today. Sucks being him!</p>
<p>I had to remind college son who had not done his taxes yet to DO them last night. A half hour later he reported “Done!” Life is easy when you don’t own anything, have no dependents, and only had a summer job. And file electronically.</p>
<p>Champagne all around! Unless you’d prefer the screwdriver with a twist and salt on the rim. :(</p>
<p>S already has his state refund. Me, I got to look online and see that said state as well as Uncle Sam had cashed our checks. Yes, life is easier when you are in the DS and DD category. </p>
<p>I will take the screwdriver with all the accoutrements, because it - sad to say - fits my status today :(.</p>
<p>OK friends, I am in Zurich, Switzerland right now, and I just have to report on what I found in every single snack and soda vending machine in every train station in the city. It’s an orange cylindrical beverage container, with what looks like the name “C-ICE” on it and a graphic above the Swiss flag that has a big ice cube with… a POT LEAF inside it!</p>
<p>“C-ICE: Ice Tea With Swiss Cannabis – Fantastic Natural Feeling”</p>
<p>:eek: :eek: :eek:
(It’s made by a natural foods company, they make stuff like carrot juice and other organic beverages and the like.)</p>
<p>I had to buy one as a souvenir. It’s not opened, ya think it will get past the sniffing dogs at the airport? The ingredients list “syrup with hemp flavor” so I’m guessing it’s not like having a baggie of pot in one’s luggage, but I’m a little wary. Think I should pour it out and wash out the container before sticking it in my checked luggage?</p>
<p>Of course the real question is, why would one want hemp-flavored iced tea?</p>
<p>I think sinner’s alley has finally found our signature drink!</p>
<p>Bravo Mootmom!</p>
<p>“Fantastic Natural Feeling”</p>
<p>Hmmm. I remember college days…it was a fantastic feeling; I’m just not sure how “natural” it was!!! What do the sniffing dogs think about the hemp clothing?</p>
<p>DH goes to Switzerland occasionally for work and brings home bottles of Fanta (which have actual fruit juice in them, ala Orangina, compared to the chemical orange Fanta made in the US). Will have to get him to look for C-ICE next time, assuming Mootmom makes it through Customs!</p>
<p>mootmom–you definitely have to bring that bottle home unopened! (We all want a taste!)</p>
<p>And as far as hemp clothing goes, hemp fabric is about as far from the seeds as cotton fabric is from cotton seeds. Not a trace of cannabis, I’m sure. Or all those kids who wear the macrame hemp necklaces would never make it through security either!</p>
<p>hmmmm. The place is empty! Even the marmots are sleeping!</p>