This has been a stay at home day. It was nice to have a day at home. I have felt sleepy tired all day and it was good to be able to relax into that feeling today.
Kathy’s son and grandson from CT arrived midafternoon. I have known for some time they were coming but it was a surprise to Kathy. Her birthday is tomorrow and they came to celebrate with her. I’m grateful I don’t have to keep their secret anymore. It has been hard to not say the wrong thing and tip Kathy off that they were coming.
I fixed meat loaf, baked potatoes, green beans and a cherry jello salad for dinner tonight. We had Dairy Queen ice cream cake for dessert. It has been good to see them and to visit with them. They will be here until Saturday. They are staying at an AirBnB up the street a block from my house.
I hadn’t fixed a meal for quite some time. I fixed Kathy’s favorites to celebrate her birthday. We had lots of leftovers so hoping they will all eat the leftovers over the next two days.
A friend of a friend had a Zoom meeting with me today. She asked me several questions about Love in Action and my understanding about the immigration issues. The 30 minutes went by quickly. She was easy to talk to and seemed interested in the Love in Action project. I have no idea what she will do with the interview or I will ever see bits of it sometime in the future. It is gratifying to know there are lots of people working on the immigration issues from a lot of different angles and perspectives.
Tomorrow I have to be in Emporia by 9:00 for another tax shift. I am hoping a lady will show up afterwards so I can help her with a couple of things. She was to have come yesterday but didn’t make it.
I don’t have too many errands to run after taxes tomorrow. Hoping I can get home fairly early in the afternoon. Kathy and her company are going to go visit Hartford and spend the day touring the area. They are going to take her out for dinner tomorrow night for her birthday.
Not sure what the plan is for Friday. I have the makings for pot roast if they decide they are eating here. Otherwise they can find somewhere to eat out again. They leave late morning Saturday so it will be a short visit.
I got my income tax refund today. As expected they deducted one of my estimated tax payments saying they didn’t get it. I have proof that they did so will wait for their letter explaining what happened and then will send in my proof and trust they fix their mistake. I had sent an extra estimated payment in December and I bet they saw that and didn’t look for the January automatic payment. I trust this will be fairly easy to resolve.
Has anyone gone to the IRS offices in Topeka or Wichita to settle a dispute like this? It is one of the way the websites recommend I use to resolve this. It might be worth a drive if I could take care of it in person.
It was a beautiful day in KS today. Temperatures were in the 70’s and it wasn’t too windy. I could live in a climate with days like this all the time. It is to be even warmer tomorrow and Friday and then another cold front is coming through. Crossing my fingers that the 28th will be like today.
I managed to sleep all night using my CPAP machine. It woke me up but I turned it off and then back on and was able to go back to sleep. I think that happened a couple times though so my sleep got interrupted a couple of times. Hoping my body adjusts and learns to ignore the air leaks. I ordered some head bands that the guy I got the machine from suggested. I will wear them to help keep my mouth shut at night when I fall into a deep sleep. Fingers crossed they will work and I will figure out a way so I can sleep without getting woke up all night long.
Spent some time reading the news and listening to the hearings that were happening today. I was able to not fall down the rabbit hole doing so. I feel a disconnect of some sort between me and the news. Most of it seems to remote and yet so damaging and at times even childish. My heart goes out to those that are being personally affected from all of this. We feel it in remote ways like the increase in gas prices and the consequences of the silly laws that are being passed. At times I keep asking myself is this real?
Grateful that Kathy’s son and grandson had a safe journey today, grateful my tax refund came even though it was too little, and grateful for this perfect, spring day.