The New Ka-Tet Cantina

[Anni M]

Gimme a TEE
Gimme a GEE
Gimme an EYE
Gimme an EFF...
a NICE EFF, not a nasty one

[MrsBook]

Hello, folks. It's turning out to be an awful Friday here - all bad weather and stress.

I have a terrible phobia of paperwork and I just spent all morning applying for Medicaid for my family. I feel like such a failure. I keep telling myself 'if self-employment taxes weren't so high,' 'if the economy weren't so bad,' 'if I could move away from this place where I'm caretaking an older relative,' but it all boils down to the same thing: oh woe is me, life is hard, and I'm not hacking it. I feel like instead of giving back my family is pretty much breaking even in our contributions to society (ie our self-employment taxes are just about what private health insurance would cost per month, so by accepting Medicaid we're 'paying' for our own public health care and otherwise contributing zilch unless you count my frequent high library late fees as a contribution).

I spent all last night staring at Paul Krugman's 'tax contribution over the course of a taxpayer's life' trying to make myself get that at different points in the average life span people give and take. No dice. I have never felt so poor as I do right now.

Sorry for the downer. I could spill this to my husband but it wouldn't exactly lift his mood, he's been miserable over the same things for longer than I have.

Good luck everyone, take care of yourselves!

[blunthead]

Gimme an EFF...
a NICE EFF, not a nasty one

Now I'm confused.

[Anni M]

Now I'm confused.

Um, just Gimme an EFF!

[Anni M]

Hello, folks. It's turning out to be an awful Friday here - all bad weather and stress.

I have a terrible phobia of paperwork and I just spent all morning applying for Medicaid for my family. I feel like such a failure. I keep telling myself 'if self-employment taxes weren't so high,' 'if the economy weren't so bad,' 'if I could move away from this place where I'm caretaking an older relative,' but it all boils down to the same thing: oh woe is me, life is hard, and I'm not hacking it. I feel like instead of giving back my family is pretty much breaking even in our contributions to society (ie our self-employment taxes are just about what private health insurance would cost per month, so by accepting Medicaid we're 'paying' for our own public health care and otherwise contributing zilch unless you count my frequent high library late fees as a contribution).

I spent all last night staring at Paul Krugman's 'tax contribution over the course of a taxpayer's life' trying to make myself get that at different points in the average life span people give and take. No dice. I have never felt so poor as I do right now.

Sorry for the downer. I could spill this to my husband but it wouldn't exactly lift his mood, he's been miserable over the same things for longer than I have.

Good luck everyone, take care of yourselves!

(((((((((((MsBook))))))))))) You take care. Positive vibes xxooa

[blunthead]

Um, just Gimme an EFF!

Ah. I feel much better now.

[Todash]

Hello, folks. It's turning out to be an awful Friday here - all bad weather and stress.

I have a terrible phobia of paperwork and I just spent all morning applying for Medicaid for my family. I feel like such a failure. I keep telling myself 'if self-employment taxes weren't so high,' 'if the economy weren't so bad,' 'if I could move away from this place where I'm caretaking an older relative,' but it all boils down to the same thing: oh woe is me, life is hard, and I'm not hacking it.

But you are "hacking it," dear. You are not burying your head in the sand. You are doing what is required to take care of your primary responsibility: your family. ("If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much." --Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) Once you get that settled, THEN you can worry about the higher-level view. I'm not saying don't think about it; do. In fact, perhaps find ways to "pay it back" in other ways. It's not just money, you know, that helps others.

But also realize that yes, in fact, the economy IS rather mangy right now, and we DO all have different circumstances at different points in our lives, and no matter what--NO MATTER WHAT--this too shall pass. Nothing is forever. Not the good times, not the bad times. If we keep that in mind, then we will cherish the good times and remain strong through the bad ones.

This too shall pass.

[Todash]

I hear ya! Our living and dining room still have dimmers. I find that watching movies with the dimmer on lowwwww is better than hard lamp light bouncing off the ole Samsung, right?

Exactly. In fact, that's why I keep a substantial layer of dust on everything. Cuts down on painful glare.

[Anni M]

Todash! What a charmingly simple and helpful hint! Cheers!

[Jojo87]

Want to wish everyone a great week!

A new month again. For me October always feel like a Halloween month I don't know
why maybe because snow hasn't come yet and mornings and evenings are dark and it's
usually rain a lot in October here especially. Today it's been cloudy. But I think
it will start to rain later today again.

Was woke up with a sore eye AGAIN this morning and had no medicine for my eye. So
was going to work half blind. After a two hours or so my eye was getting little better and
I could continue to do my work.

Hope all else is feeling well or getting better very soon. Send healing vibes for
all who need it.

Take good care friends and stay safe.

((all in need or not))