Hello,
I noticed that a lot of ppl come to this page looking for a way to convert their tax file to pdf.
I had the same problem, you can scroll down a bit to find it, or find the problem HERE.
And more importantly, the SOLUTION HERE.
Archive for March, 2006
Tax Program ppl
gassy boo-hoo
Gas prices here in C-town have been about $2.47 to $2.59 from day to day. People were lining up when one of the stations were givin it away for a mere $2.36 a week & a half ago.
Well, a couple of weeks ago, I heard that it’s going upto $2.50 & will stay there til August.
WELL, I heard this morning (from the same source that was right-on about prices all last summer), that it’s going to get to $3 a gallon by Memorial Day, & will hover there, & then may get as high as $4 a gall until August!
I am not pleased.
WHAT!?!
oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. just WAIT til my mom hears about this. I need to call her RIGHT NOW!!! This is what I just saw:
And I can’t believe my eyes. Ok, normally I don’t write about celeb gossip. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think I’m above it or anything crazy like that. I just read about it (all the time). And my fave place to read about it is at Chelsea’s Mama’s blog. If you haven’t checked it out yet, click on “CUZ” in my sidebar. She thinks like I do, & even puts in the heehee’s in the exact right places, where someone (ok, me) would snicker or laugh out. I read it everyday.
But, all this time, I swore up & down that Seacrest is gay. (not that there’s anything wrong w/ that). I swear he was! I can’t believe he’s straight!
Oh, wait, I’ve had a min for this to sink in. It’s gotta be a publicity stunt. No man is that comfortable getting a mani/pedi, & not gay. I’m gonna try to scan in pics of what I’m talking about, but they were in one of the 2 Oscar issues of People recently. That’s it for now, I’m going back to leaving the celeb postings to the pros. 
update: I talked to my mom, & she said it’s ok if he’s straight & I shouldn’t be so crazy about this news. She also said (she’s a bit of an Idol-head) that there’s some “big news” w/ Paula, but neither of us knows what. If you know, could’ja tell me please?
the merger! (well, maybe)
I love when different shows & stuff w/in the same genre merge together. Like, my fave Scooby-Doo cartoons were the ones where they hooked up w/ Batman. My fave Jetsons were where they traveled into the past & met up w/ the Flintstones (& vice versa).
Soooo, you can only imagine how absolutely THRILLED I must be right now. Yes, folks, feast your eyes on this:
Now, I’m not sayin that one strip’s gonna “visit” the other, but I am hoping!
And for those of you who may not be familiar w/ Mos Def, I wrote about him a whiles back, check him out in my archive (there’s a pic).
gay marriage is wrong. Right?
‘Kay, so I got this email from one of my bestest friends; & at the bottom, she said to pass the email along to others. BUT, she sent the email to about 100 ppl, & all the ppl I know were in there. So, I’m just posting it here instead. Feel free to copy it & email it to all the ppl you know though. Haha, know though. That rhymes. haha.
top 10 reasons why gay marriage is wrong:
1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.
7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8 ) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.
9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
note at the bottom of the email (so I’m posting it here instead):
PASS THIS AROUND IF YOU ARE FOR GAY MARRIAGE (i’m not trying to guilt you into posting this again, but i think it’s great and it’d be cool if it got around).
mis-leading chips
OK, I’m not trying to mislead anyone here. My cake did look a lot like the cake below, w/ a minor difference. My cake did not have chips in it. I don’t do “chips” in my food. (I also don’t do lemon wedges w/ my food or water, but that’s a story for another day).
I don’t like chocolate chips or sprinkles in my cake or frosting, or ice cream. I don’t like chunks of anything (chips, sprinkles, tutti-frutti-thingies, fruit, etc) in any cake, cookies, or jello. All through college, I ate Edy’s French Silk ice cream; & I separated the chocolate chunks they put in there & threw them out.
There are exceptions of course. Everyone that knows me, knows that I make up rules & then have exceptions to them all. That’s just how I roll. Cookies, obviously, can have chocolate chips. But not M&Ms in them, that’s just weird. And we can’t forget Ghirardelli’s triple-chocolate-chunk brownies.
Mmmm, ghirardelli trip-choco-chunk brownies. They are yummy. There’s this guy where I work, & he used to bring in these brownies every once in a while. But he hasn’t done it i
n a while (about a year). I think it all stopped the time he put some oregano in them. No, not “oregano” (in quotes), but real oregano, the spice. To see if ppl would notice. He also had a card to Costco (they only have this on the east-side of Cleve, not the west side; regardless, I don’t have a membership card), so he bought me a box once a while ago. He went to buy me another box a few months ago, but they don’t carry it anymore. Now, they only have Hershey’s triple-choco-chunk brownies. They’re still damn good though.
choco
Is it ok to have a piece of chocolate cake w/ chocolate-fudge frosting for dinner?
It may be important to add in that I’m sick (& have been sick), & had a super-crappy day. I thought it was ok, but have been told that it’s not how things are done.
This pic looks just like the cake I made yesterday. My cakes are absolutely dee-li-cee-ous! That’s mainly cause I have a secret ingredient that I add (only a few select ppl know). But this time, I forgot the secret ingredient! Everyone still said it was grand though.
big hair
I sometimes wish my hair was bigger. I have lots of naturally curly hair, & sometimes I like it all sleek & smooth & sophisticated. Sometimes straightened. Sometimes wavy/curly, but laying more flat than not. Well, maybe it’s cause I’ve had that Roxette song “Dangerous” stuck in my head for this entire week. But my hair can’t be big enough for me. I’m talkin BIG. Like Diana Ross big. 
Well, maybe not that extreme, but you get my point. You know, just maybe “country star” big.
I did an image search for “big hair” & found this painting by Blake Flynn. And now I want to see it in person. I wonder if it’s textured. I think that would be really cool if it was.
what a diff a day makes
OK, yesterday morn here in Cleveland, the sky was pitch black. Huge thunderstorm, raindrops the size of my fist! No, I’m not exaggerating. So, maybe my fists aren’t that huge, but that’s still a big raindrop. In the morning, I was making my coffee in the kitchen & I look out the kit window. The sun is coming up, the sky is bright, & the rays are shining down. Then, I walk out to the living room, & look out the window there. Pitch black, dark gray clouds rolling in. Very eerie. Cool, but eerie.
Then, in the afternoon, the skies opened up. The clouds drifted away. Pure sunshine. So bright it hurt your eyes. All over the ground were tree limbs that just weren’t strong enough to make it through the day. It was still windy out, but bright & windy. Sunny & 67 degrees for the rest of the daylight hours. 67 & SUNNY!!!
Well, this morning I woke up to 30 degrees & snow. Still windy, so the snow’s now coming at me sideways. As I drove up toward the lake (I work North of where I live), the snowflakes grew in size. At first, they were these teeny-tiny little specks coming at me super-fast. Going up 71, they got to the size of a half-dollar, & were now more fluttering around as my windshield hit them head-on. They stuck onto my windshield glass & melted away into nothing-ness. Oh, & they were so white & clean & fresh & new. Then, they were gone.
Well, now I’m told that near where I live, the snow’s coming down; an inch an hour. I was told we’re going to get 3 to 7 inches today. Here’s what the winter storm advisory online (below). Wild, huh?
The national weather service in cleveland has issued a lake effect snow advisory…which is in effect until 7 am est wednesday.
A wind advisory remains in effect until 6 pm est this afternoon.
Expect winds of 20 to 30 mph with gusts at times of 45 to 50 mph to continue through this afternoon. the winds will slowly diminish through this evening and tonight.
Motorists in high profile vehicles should use caution until the winds subside.
EWTN
There’s this televangelist dude on tv in the evenings. And whenever someone in my fam is watching tv, & the show ends & he’s about to start, they’re always like “change it QUICK, before HE comes on!”. Not that we hate him or anything. We just don’t watch him, & he’s got too much energy for that time of day (10 pm on a weeknight). Everyone’s been working all day, & he comes on all shouting & stuff.
Well, I was working out this weekend, & there are tvs in front of where the treadmills are. This isn’t a big deal for me cause I usually read while on the treadmill anyway. But this weekend, an older dude that I don’t remember seeing before (I usually see the same ppl in there everyday), approached me. He put his magazine on a treadmill, & asked me to “save” it for him while he went to the restroom.
Let me give you some background info. It was Sat afternoon. There were 8 treadmills in the room. Guess how many ppl? No, go ahead & guess. Yep, just 2: me & him. Who did he think was gonna “steal” his treadmill? So, he goes & comes back, & very politely “thanks” me for watching the machine for him. I said “no prob” (c’mon, what was I going to say?). So, then he asks if he can change the channel on the tv. I’m now on my 3rd Jane Green novel, so what do I care. Instead, I said “sure thing”. You won’t believe what he put it on . . .
EWTN. Now, you may not be familiar with this (I wasn’t). But it was a televangelist type program. He switched it to this voluntarily. I’ve just never seen something like it before. I didn’t know what EWTN stood for (it was in the corner, like the NBC peacock symbol); & I didn’t want to ask. But I soon found out it was the Eternal World Television Network.
A few mins later, one of the regular Sat afternoon older-guys came in. He looked up & the screen & was like “what the . . . [looks at me, reading] can I switch this to the news or something”? Then the guy on the treadmill by me tells him that he put it on this b/c he wanted to watch it, & has he never seen the Catholic television station? [to be honest, I hadn’t]
So, apparently, this is called Eternal World Television Network, & he went on about the nun that was talking. The “show” he was watching was a re-run that originally aired January 11th, 1994. Yes, folks, 1994! My world was opened that much more that afternoon.
I wonder what he would’ve said if he knew the book I was reading was about a girl who got herself all knocked-up before marriage. And I can’t imagine what my mom would’ve said if she was there when the dude put it on this channel.
