phone it in | Random 5 Friday ...

[iPhone5 - 02/19/14] 

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.” 

-Margaret Mitchell

RANDOM:

1.  For the life of me and millions of others, I will never understand who in their right mind concluded it was okay and justified to charge a person a tax on their purchase not only at the time of the transaction, but each and every.single.year.thereafter for as long as they own that item?

I guess I should be grateful they only apply this extra tax to vehicles and not TVs, refrigerators, earplugs (especially earplugs/headphones because our son has lost enough of these over the past 5 years to keep Sony/JVC/etc in business).

2.  My husband had a close call the other evening with a road-crossing deer.  He did not have as much luck with the red-light-running idiot.  Dented, but not defeated.

3.  The temperatures (and you knew this was coming) - anyway, the temperatures made it into mid-60s today.  If I didn't know better I'd swear I could smell bonfires of winter coats and boots.
Break out the shorts.  Slap on the sunscreen.

4.  I have officially qualified for the "Crazy Cat Lady" - I looked out the window (over the ears of one gray feline) and counted 3 cats sitting on the fence, 1 cat at the food dish, and 1 cat sitting on the stoop looking in the window at said gray feline.

5.  New yummy treat: Pretzel Crisps by the Snack Factory - especially Buffalo Wings.  Not gluten free, but no cholesterol, no saturated or trans fats, and low in the sugar count.  Mucho good.

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and one for the road
- tell me I'm not the only one who literally laughs-out-loud at the Esurance commercial where the lady posts pictures on her (living room) wall, and saved 15% in 15 minutes - then "un-friends" her friend who saved more in less time

"that's not how it works, that's not how any of this works."

BEATRICE

I laugh because I can see myself among this group.

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