I posted on Facebook today that Iowa has THE dumbest weather! Sunday it's in the 90's and I finally break down and turn the air conditioner on so Butler and I don't swelter upstairs and today it's barely 40 and I have the furnace running. The wind is blowing like crazy and it's raining, raining, raining. Twice when I let Butler out to go potty he just looked at me, turned around and went back toward the steps to go into the kitchen. Can't say that I blame him but I told him that he couldn't go potty inside while I was gone, and thank goodness he didn't.
Last night as it was getting later and I was reading the wind made it sound like I was out somewhere isolated on the prairie in the middle of the worst blizzard in history with the wind howling and swirling around the house. I just shook my head.
I FINALLY got my federal taxes e-filed and within moments was able to file my state taxes too. Then I had to wait to make sure the e-filing was accepted. By the time I went to bed last night I had not received a confirmation email that they had been accepted so I made myself a note to be sure to check on them today. Well at 5:58 a.m. this morning I received a text message that my federal taxes had been accepted by the IRS - 5:58 A.M.! The text message for my state acceptance by the IRS came at a more sane hour of 9:00 something.
My backyard looks like a cow pasture and the front yard is looking a little ratty too. Sometimes I'm......lazy and picking up the branches in the backyard has not been high on my list. Well sometimes being lazy has its benefit because if I would have picked them up Wednesday like I had planned on doing - I'd be picking them up again from what came down last night - before I'd be able to mow. Sure I could use the exercise but why go over the yard twice when I can pick all the branches up at one time :)
On a bright note I have a phone interview Monday afternoon for a company in Waukee that sounds very interesting. The interview will only last 15 minutes and I have no idea the salary - sometimes that's noted on the job posting on CareerBuilder.com but it wasn't for this position. Who knows - only God does at this point. I also did follow up a few moments ago with another employment agency I worked with 2-3 years ago letting the owner know that I STILL had not heard from the recruiter that handles Administrative positions - I was to have heard from the recruiter over three weeks ago. I immediately got an email back from the owner with a cc to the recruiter that he/she would be calling me right away and low and behold guess what happened? My phone rang and the caller ID was that employment agency - imagine that. Guess where I'll be at 9:00 a.m. Monday morning talking about a position? And I could tell that recruiter is NOT happy with me but tough noogies. He/she claims they left me a voicemail about another position I've been bugging them about and I told him/her that I did not have a voicemail from their company. I can prove I never received a call from this employment agency from the call log on my phone (I didn't say that to the recruiter). All I said in my email this afternoon was that I still hadn't heard from so-and-so and was wondering if the such-and-such position was still open because it was still on their web site.
Tomorrow if the weather allows LWF is helping with an Easter Egg Hunt across the street from the Well (what I used to call the Blue Building). I still haven't figured out why the hunt is tomorrow when Easter is not this Sunday - but then again I don't understand why taxes have always been due April 15th (unless the 15th falls on a weekend) that we have until April 18th to file them this year.......................
