The Deal Is!

Some people love to top, they can’t be the underdog-ever.  My daughter has a friend that is a topper, she’s only 11 so she may not know it yet but she will soon find out, she’s a topper.  She recently came over and noticed my daughter had gotten a new bed, it’s a queen size and she shares it with her sister.  The friend says. “my bed is way bigger than this, mine’s two twins pushed together.”  Now, if I am not mistaken, two twins pushed together either makes a double, or at most makes a queen, but no bigger than a queen.  The kid goes into my room and looks at my king size bed and says that hers is bigger than that too.

We have been topped by this girl with our 54″ big screen, her parents have that big of a tv in their bedroom apparently she says and their living room tv is just plain bigger than that.  She’s topped our vacation last year, we went to a local fun spot in Washington called great Wolf Lodge, we had a blast.  We came home and told the topper and she quickly pointed out that her family went to Hawaii, and Florida for vacation that year and that they would be going back to Hawaii in a couple of weeks.

We were topped by her on the 4th of July, we went to the local Indian Reservation and purchased a nice layout of sparks, she came running down the road as ours were going off and said that her and her dad were going to make a last minute trip to the rez also cause so far they had only safe and sane stuff from the local grocery store.  They came back with some big guns.  It was a great show, we enjoyed their works but our still took the cake according to our standards.

We really like the little girl, don’t get me wrong, we take her everywhere with us, she’s my daughter’s best frined in the neighborhood.  It’s just that the topping can get a little much at times.

So It’s income tax time again… I already got my refund and spent it, went through TurboTax again.  Didn’t get as much as I did last year or at least it didn’t feel like it.  I did spend it though.  Spent a little on a gift for my boyfriend, spent some on groceries at Costco, gonna buy $100.00 in makeup and other things at Sephora probably today, also gonna get my Jeep fixed next week.  The Jeep is in for a 60K tune-up and windshield replacement, brakes for the front and rear, and a fix on the heater since it currently only works on levels 3 and 4 nothing blows out at 1 or 2. I also need to get some new seat covers for the Jeep, Ranger had an accident in the backseat yesterday so we gotta fix that.  I would have liked to get my stereo fixed since something is up with the amp, it buzzes a lot of the time, probably a ground, I also would have liked to get the Jeep detailed but that’s just too much to spend on being lazy.  I’ll just clean the car myself and save the money. 

I lowered my amount of tax that I voluntarily give to Uncle Sam, I used to give and extra $80.00 per month split between two paychecks, but I thought this year I would liquidate some of my cash from my paychecks and see if by having a little more money if I will be able to learn how to budget and save.  If I can’t that will suck, but I am going to do my best.  Next year’s income tax can’t come fast enough, I have too many wants which I can justify to be needs-lol!  I hope you all do some responsible things with your income tax but don’t forget to save a little out for something nice for yourself, I did, and I feel great about doing so!

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