Taxed... fuck

Last year that asshole that I worked for didn't take taxes out of My checks. I kept saying that I wanted him to but he kept saying I would come out ahead. He even tried to hide me from the people that oversee the short term disability, asking Me to stay home that day.

I finally got out of there and to My current job which is fine but the four months of last year when he didn't take out taxes are KILLING me. So, today I paid them and FUCK it was painful. We are putting it on one of our credit cards because I didn't want to work out any terms with the IRS. Just don't want them any deeper in My business than they are already.

Last weekend, we went to DC to see the Cherry Blossom festival. It was truly beautiful. It was also vey busy and LOTS of people there. There was a fireworks show that night. We were having sushi on Friday night and decided to go. We just grabbed a hotel online and took off. Charles loves to drive so we were all snuggled into our hotel room by 2:00 am. I say "we" because we took the dogs. In the future, I want to see to it that andrew is comfortable enough in our home to "house sit" for us. I also hope to bring him along on some of our road trips.

That will happen when he begins to approach his 2nd goal and finds his own apartment and gets out from under the Gestapo . finn is working on some goals too and although they are longer term he's making progress as well. I'm envious of his success with going back to school but so very proud of him too. Anyway, as we drove into town on Saturday morning. I saw this:As I drove past it, I thought about how My money would be there in just a couple of weeks. Then we went here:
As I looked at the cemetary at Arlington, I felt sick that My money would be used to finance more killing. There were peaceful war protesters at the White house. I thought to Myself, they should be here with their signs. Pleading with people not to add more dead men and women to this cemetary. Charles said it would be to flagrant and the cemetary was off limits to protesters but I thought, their pleadings are wasted on the idiot in the Whitehouse but the people coming to Arlington have to vote. THEY have a chance to help turn things around.

Luckily, we moved on and came out of My blue warhatingtaxworryingirshating blue funk. We parked and went into Georgetown to have lunch and My mood rallied.
I was standing here looking at this canal and lock system and I felt such a sense of History. I love history. That is what finn is studying and I love hearing him talk about it. It was a beautiful spring day and we had a really nice lunch and did a little shopping at the mall of Georgetown.
There is a bar there in Georgetown celebrating the Boston Red Sox. Charles was itching to go in and have a beer and you can see above why I VERY strongly declined. No need to go LOOKING for trouble.

We went back to the hotel to drop the dogs off and have a little nap before dinner and then headed back to have dinner at this little French restaurant. We went out to listen to a little music then headed home.

By the time we left on Sunday, I was in a better place. Who can stay stressed with beautiful tiny pink flowers everywhere. Besides everyone knows pink is My favorite color.
Kiss kiss

Ky