Just got the tax returns done. They were almost done I just needed to wrap it up and hit submit. You would think I would do it sooner if we got money back as we usually do. With the state return, because Hollace is in private school we get an education credit which is good for about $350 extra. Cool.
Today Hollace had a birthday party to go to. I dropped her off and then took off on a photo excursion. I have been uninspired lately, typical winter blahs, when it came to photography. Today I forced myself out to shoot something. In two hours I think I got a lot of new material to feed my photoblog and Flickr stream. I started out frustrated that everything I wanted to photograph was while driving down the road. It is never easy to just pull over and shoot it. Today I stopped anyway.
I decided to go into Libertyville and walk the quaint small town street. First though I had to try and find a barn I always see while driving the tollway. It had a nice message on it and interesting colors. I did manage to find it. I think now looking at it, it is a barn for the Girl Scouts or something. It is their colors and I swear that is their logo on the barn and the sentiment sounds all Girl Scoutie. It said, “Help other people at all times”. Anyway, I got my shot and then some.
Yesterday I had my first appointment with Dr. Penny. At first I was worried because they seemed to forget my appointment. I guess if they would of remembered it they would of canceled it. It was Penny’s first day in the office after being sick and was only working every other hour or something.
My first impression of Penny was not good but it turned out that she wasn’t too bad. Better than the work therapist I tried the last time. She did get a little holy roller on me and apologized if it gets too much for me and to tell her to back off. She shys away from meds (which I do also) and she told me she is a short term therapist and 6 sessions (what EAP from work will cover in whole) should do it for me. Whatever, I just hope it works.
After work or rather after I picked up Hollace for after school care, we headed out to Salutos to celebrate a guy at work’s new job out of CN. It was a little awkward but not too bad.
Today Dorothy got released from the hospital and is now in the nursing home. RAW comes home tomorrow after 10 days. Hollace while missed him isn’t too thrilled because that means she has to go back to her own bed.
Speaking of which, I think I will join her now and go to sleep. We are going to try to go to the Lutheran church tomorrow. Hollace needs to deliver a thank you card to a girl there that wanted to buy someone something so she bought Hollace a rubber stamp book since it was just her birthday. They left it on our door last week. Also to avoid the Girl Scout leader wondering why we didn’t make it to the front of the grocery store to sell cookies during tradional church time. I guess those Catholics just assume you will go to Saturday evening mass instead.