Thursday already?

[susandennis]

Today is supposed to be cooler which is good because I have errands. I have a return to drop off at Amazon. I need salad from Grocery Outlet and I want a dozen Gay Cupcakes (4 would be fine and I may end up only getting 6 but they are only available in June and they donate a portion of the proceeds and they are so pretty. I have room in the freezer so maybe even a dozen. Maybe.)

Today's baseball game starts at 10.I want to get out and back before it heats up anyway. But the cupcake place doesn't open til 8 and Amazon and GO don't open til 9 and it's not quite 7:30 yet. So waiting...

Also I have laundry going. Just one load but I told the researcher that I'm meeting tomorrow in the coffee shop that I'd be wearing a purple Pride Ally t-shirt. Said shirt, however, was at the bottom of the dirty clothes bin. Fixing that now. Also found another Proud to be an Ally shirt at Amazon so ordered that up. June is too long a month for one shirt plus, there are all the other months.

I am spending money like The Tree That I Hate is growing it. My plan to make my spending public isn't working that well. Also bills due. I just paid my car registration $199. When you live in a state with no state income tax, you get to pay that income tax in the form of higher sales taxes, outrageous taxes on restaurant dining, car rentals, hotels and booze as well as car registrations.

The pool was nicely populated again today. I don't mind swimming alone but it's more fun with other people around. I swim faster. Plus, like today, when I get big splashy swimmers on both sides, I expend way more energy keeping on top of the waves. More bang for my swim buck.

Comments

[justphoenix.livejournal.com]

Aww, I wish we had gay cupcakes here.

[sextangles.livejournal.com]

Those gay cupcakes look kinda heavenly... enjoy!

[susandennis]

Sadly, they didn't have any! I'm going to check a different store on Saturday.

[sextangles.livejournal.com]

nooo! I hope your quest for the gay cupcakes will be rewarded D:

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

So many people in Texas (mostly who hadn't lived elsewhere, as far as I knew) used to brag about how there was no state income tax. And yet...I'm pretty sure that's where we paid the most taxes ever because everything else is so taxed to the hilt to make up for it. Especially property taxes. Property taxes in Texas are so ridiculous. My house here in Colorado is worth 3x what my house there was worth and our taxes on it are less than half what we paid there.

[susandennis]

My brother lives in Texas and he's always bragging about no income tax. It cracks me up every time because I know he's paying out the nose for stuff that he just doesn't notice. HOWEVER... if you are over the age of 65, your real estate taxes in Texas are frozen. They will never go up and you have several giant exemptions. My real estate taxes here go up higher and faster than 4th of July fireworks. Right now they are right at $800 a month. For a 1,300 square foot condo in a 100 year old building. Ridiculous.

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

People in my old 'hood, which has now flooded three major times in the past four years, dropping real estate prices dramatically, have been posting about their taxes still going UP. They are still raising property taxes on their houses that are now basically worthless (land value only in many cases). So wrong.

[susandennis]

I do not understand Texas at all.

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

ME EITHER.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

those cupcakes look too good!
I love swimming with friends but not some of my neighbor's kids. They're rude and act like they own the whole pool and you don't belong there.

[susandennis]

swimming with kids? hell no. my pool is 17 years + ONLY. i don't do kids.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

(Napoleon Dynamite voice) Lucky!