Did you hear that sigh of relief just now? That was me, having finally gotten our taxes pulled together to a point where our accountant can work her magic and then file them. We’ve got complicated taxes, what with John’s home office and my never-ending education and expenses related to the cult we run on [...]
Do you ever think about the sheer wonderfulness of idioms in the English language? They’re so diverse, so eccentric, so… bizarre! Take the idea, for example, of falling “ass over teakettle” in love. What on earth? Or being so hungry you could “eat a horse.” In the interest of full disclosure, though, I should note [...]
I visited my local post office today to get a new passport. Technically, I also visited my local post office yesterday to get a new passport, only to find that their “passport office hours” were not the same as their “regular post office hours,” and as such I was too late to “get a new [...]