A few things to piss me off…

Mmmmmm where to start?

Oh OK.

Well, Jimmy had I had a grand old time on the Dell website last night choosing our new computers.

Of course being a boy, he likes anything that has touch screens and voice commands and cool, awesome, funky "2010" techological wizardry.

Whatever.

Because he asks for so little (apart from beer and sex – heh) I’m occassionally willing to accomodate his "Oh WOW, this system does THIS…" man excitement @ shiny, new toys.

My only issue was this: buying a brand new, state-of-the-art laptop that goes *BING* in the night seems a little wasted when you’re planning on taking it down range (See: Sand-pit, deployment, ass-end-of-the-world & terrorist paradise for further information) with you. It’s not unheard of for these lovely, spanking new machines to come back dust/sand ridden because of the revolting conditions.

Course, we think he will spend a majority of time on the FOB (Forward Operating/Operations Base – Whatever) doing lots of little things that people in his position usually do. I’m sure there will be time spend doing other things but whatever those are I’m choosing to ignore because I’m a spouse and the idea of my husband being anywhere near the nasty people makes me plug up my ears and hum like an insolent child. "La-la-laaaaaaaaaa"

So yes. In MY mind, he will be nice and safe and secure and if you know any differently, kindly keep it to yourself. I don’t care for conveys, tanks, trucks, war zone, red zone, bloody terrorism zone, fighting, shooting and whatever else soldier people typically count as a regular days work. Uh-uh. I’m switching OFF the news channels and watching comedies and LOTS of Monty Python!

Anyway, I digress.

So yes… I sort of got a little bugged when he saw this laptop and fell in love. It had all the geeky tech spec’s that any man nerd would drool over (my nearly husband) and my only qualm is WHY would you spend $1000 on something that can read your mind when you’re going to a nasty, dusty place (where daily showers are a luxury) and where that laptop will possibly return dead from a grossness overload?

My therory is this: buy a cheaper system, flog the living hell out of it and when you return to U.S civilisation (sometimes) you can get another brand new, shiny laptop that has all the bells and whistles!

No? Makes no sense? OK, sorry.

Still. I built my home PC… and it only cost $500 since we have a nice monitor etc so I ended up indulging his whimsical laptop desires (because nothing else "had it all") and his excitement was cute. I gotta admit… I feed off his happiness.

Right. So. Now comes the ire:

We’ve been lazy. Not filed the taxes until now. Blah blah blah… I must have been living under a cloud BECAUSE I thought that given his income and the amount he paid in taxes etc etc, he would get back a couple of thousand.

I mean. When he filed jointly with bitch-face (who never gave him the "agreed" 50% of the refund) his refund was about $9,000!!!
Yes, that includes claiming the kids etc.

Well seeing as she didn’t keep up her end of the agreement by providing him with his portion of the return, we decided that he needed to file on his own this year. Mind you, I shouldn’t be surprised since she hasn’t done ANYTHING in the last 7 years…

So he’s had us to support. Ya know… if cow features had flipping well got the divorce over and done with and we had our residency, this would not even be an issue. We’d be classified as dependants and Jimmy could claim us all and yadd yadda yadda. We’re not though… we’re nothing and he can’t even  claim his kids because snot hole is the custodial parent (even if she doesn’t work) and he agreed to allow her to claim them. How do you get a refund back when you don’t have taxes to lodge??? Like… is this government that idiotic???  Anyway, my theory (being a randomly bitter old cow) is that since she hasn’t kept up with any portion of the agreement, that he should just claim them. Unfortunately he does everything by the letter and she gets away with financially raping people.

So. This means that out of about $19,000 in combined taxes he gets back $1000.

It’s almost laughable. She gets back three times that and she didn’t even work and she doesn’t have to declare the child support as income.

I’m bamboozled.

So needless to say, I’m really angry. We’re got a wedding reception to pay for in a couple of months and this essentially means that there will be no luxuries until then so I can save every last penny towards it. I’m very lucky that most everything else is paid for. I was hoping to get a new couch with the taxes but that’s not going to happen. I was also hoping that some of it could go towards my greencard application (but that won’t happen either). So I’m just really annoyed.

I must call my mother and get her to send me MY group certificates (W2’s) so I can lodge last years Aussie taxes! I’m certain I can claim something and get back some money!!!

Later skaters.

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