What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[MrPopo]

It's a good thing we learned how to dissect dead birds in middle school, instead of ever being taught about taxes in school. Rigggggght?

I hear this complaint all the time and man... 1040ez never struck me as confusing, even at 17. 1040a isn't much worse either. Maybe I'm just better at math than I realized?

You also need reading comprehension.

[ElkinFencer10]

It's a good thing we learned how to dissect dead birds in middle school, instead of ever being taught about taxes in school. Rigggggght?

The high school where I went and the one where I teach both offer personal finance classes. Most students just don't take them.

[REPO Man]

Monday my mom contacted me to say that since she'll be going to poker she wanted me to watch my great-grandmother (who's been bed-ridden for a while and sleeps in a hospital bed in the living room) and great-uncle (who has major back problems, I believe relating to swollen discs in his spine).

And by the next morning she revealed that I'm basically moving in. My brother and his wife have been wanting me to move out for a while since every day I'm there is another day my niece doesn't have her own room.

But my moving in is mostly until the camper is fixed up. The camper, which my mom got back around late-summer/early-fall with the intent to have her and I live in in, is gonna be my new place (I believe she's gonna move into my great-uncle's main house at some point). But first the door has to be replace, the windows fixed, the camper moved to the back yard, and then I have to fix up the inside (clean, move my stuff into it, furnish, and drop a bug bomb or two, and so on).

But until then I'm sleeping in my great-grandmother's old room, which she hasn't slept in for ages. There's an HDTV, but they only have cable. So Monday I brought my Ouya with me (they also have WiFi). And in the meantime I'm also helping out, mostly with my great-uncle and great-grandmother, who are both bedridden like I said earlier.

Not gonna lie... I kinda miss my nieces, though I didn't realize this until I saw a Fruit-by-the-Foot commercial and remembered when my youngest niece said she wanted that (that's kinda her deal, saying she "wants that" whenever she sees a commercial on TV and likes the product they're selling). But I don't miss my youngest niece asking me to watch her when she wakes up before everyone else and then fusses me out whenever I go into my room and don't come right back out.

[fastbilly1]

What kind of camper? If it is big enough you might have hookups for amenities like a washer and dryer or water heater.

[Phades]

I claim 4 and am still getting back several thousand this year. I will probably bump it up.

I like the cash boost, but it would have been better for my family to have that extra few hundred a month. That would have really helped out.

[REPO Man]

What kind of camper? If it is big enough you might have hookups for amenities like a washer and dryer or water heater.

Not enough room for a washer and dryer, but there's a washer and dryer here in the main house. Don't know about the water heater. But I know that the sewage system might be able to be hooked up so I'll have to use the bathroom in the main house, but I believe we can get water hooked up so I can still shower and wash dishes.

Also it has a gas stove and I'd much rather have an electric stove and I'm certain getting the former out is impossible and as such getting an electric stove won't happen either. So I'm just gonna just see how much I can do without a stove, which might be easy if I get a toaster oven and a griddle.

[MrPopo]

Also it has a gas stove and I'd much rather have an electric stove

I have literally never heard anyone say this ever.

[Stark]

Also it has a gas stove and I'd much rather have an electric stove

I have literally never heard anyone say this ever.

He prefers uneven cooking and likes to wait a while before getting it near the temp he is looking for.

[Ack]

I mean, yeah guys. Proper electric stove-fueled nutrition is the only way you will ever have enough strength to powerlift a hot water heater.

[Blu]

I mean, yeah guys. Proper electric stove-fueled nutrition is the only way you will ever have enough strength to powerlift a hot water heater.

I was wondering if something about lifting a hot water heater was coming. You never disappoint, Ack.