/sigh

It’s been a bad week for me.
On Monday I tripped over one of my daughter’s toys. The toy had a bar on it that scraped the shin of my right leg on the way down. I would take a picture and show it to you, but it’s really gross. My leg looks like one colossal bruise from the knee to the ankle.
Sometime between Monday and Tuesday, I managed to misplace a $3,000 tax refund check. I’m sure that it’s in my apartment somewhere. I’m even sure that I probably put it somewhere, but I have searched and searched all of my usual places for putting things and I cannot find it anywhere. I’ve already spoken with the IRS and they can cancel the check and send another one, but that process will take several months. We can survive without it for several months, but life would be easier if I could find it. So, I’m now shamelessly soliciting prayers that we find that check. I feel like an idiot for losing it.
I am feeling extremely stressed and have probably been spending too much time on the Internet anyways, so I’m going to cut back on blogging and commenting. For real this time. Really.
Post comments as normal, I will do my best to get to them.

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  2. :( Dude. That sucks.
    Three things always make me feel better.
    1)–Hot food
    2)–Hot bath
    3)–Hot sex
    Not necessarily in that order…though, come to think of it, that order ain’t half bad.
    I’ll be praying for you to recover the check: I’ve done that before and it is SO stressful. And I vote you take all the time you need away. Wish I lived closer, I’d bring you dinner or offer to babysit or something. :)
  3. Katie ~ If you lived closer I would lift up my pant leg and make you look at the nasty bruise conglomeration on my shin, and then you would weep and claw out your eyes.
    So Brian, do you still want to meet me this weekend?
  4. Really, it’s simple: Pray to find the check, and you will. The practice of praying to find small things has never failed me. That’s “30 years” and “never”. Promise!
    Good luck.
  6. and then you would weep and claw out your eyes.
    Sounds very Greek tragedy. But they say Greek tragedy was supposed to produce catharsis, so who knows but that it would actually be quite therapeutic for me.
    I think you should send me a pic or something, help me cut down on therapy bills.
    I don’t wanna get into it with those guys on your other post, but FWIW, my friend Amanda says three things are always funny–and I have to agree.
    1)–Burps
    2)–Farts
    3)–Guys getting hit in the crotch
    I think you could safely add to the list:
    4)–Licked cupcakes
    5)–The Daily Universe’s “apostates” typo
    I’m sorry, but that’s funny. I think you could bring it up twice a week, and it still wouldn’t get old.
  7. Jack, I spent yesterday pulling brains out of mice; you really think your leg is going to disturb me? The more important question is “do you like carrot cake?”
  8. No answers to prayer on the check front, but my husband claims God told him that vanilla ice cream is His favorite kind. That’s certainly relevant information.
    FWIW, I did wake up this morning and my leg hurt a lot less.
    Pulling brains out of mice, Brian? Is it wrong that I think that sounds like fun?
    I think carrot cake is the finest flavor of cake in the world. For serious.
  9. “Is it wrong that I think that sounds like fun? “
    No, it just means you haven’t spent the entire day doing it. But trust me, today is even more (or less, depends on where you’re sitting) exciting: placing the dissected tissues in an indigo solution and homogenizing them with a specialized blender.
  11. Guillotines are almost never used anymore. The most frequently used forms of euthanasia are CO2 or large dose of anaesthetic (followed by decapitation).
  12. Ah…. I’m sorry about the tax return check. That’s why we just have it go straight to our bank account. Though that isn’t full proof either. (We had a friend put the wrong routing number in, off by one number, and someone else got her money! Luckily they were able to get it back though.)
    Hope your knee feels better too! :)
  13. Yeah, it’s a long story, but I submitted the return in September and the IRS screwed up the paperwork so that it had to go to the Taxpayer Advocacy service, and they couldn’t do direct deposit even though that’s what I signed up for. Normally I always do direct deposit.
    My leg does feel much better. The check is still missing but I’m less stressed about it. If we haven’t found it by Monday we’re just going to start the paperwork to have it re-issued. Did I mention how much of a dumbass I am for losing it?
    Anyways, Easter is upon us and I’m feeling much better. Have a good Easter Sunday tomorrow everyone. :)
  14. September?
    Wow, I usually have mine done by the second week in February, with refund money in hand less than three weeks later.
    Hope you can get a swift resolution to this.
  15. It was a 2006 tax return that I’d never turned in. That was the year I had my daughter and I didn’t realize the government gives you a crapton of money for having kids, so I didn’t initially file it. So I finally turned it in last September, and they screwed it up and I’ve been waiting ever since, and now I’ve screwed it up.
    Oh well.
  17. Brian, here’s what happened with Chase today:
    You remember that check I lost back in April as described in this thread? It came in the mail today, so Paul and I rushed to the bank to deposit it before we could lose it again like the dumbasses we are. I owe my father some money, so my plan was to deposit most of it and take out some of it in cash to give to my dad.
    Got to Chase, waited through the long line only to be told that they could not give me cash back on the check unless both Paul and I signed it because it was made out to both of us; otherwise they could only deposit it in my account. Paul was waiting in the car with Harley. So I went out to the car, had Paul sign it, then came back in and waited through line again.
    Then they told me that they still couldn’t give me any cash back on the check because it needed to sit in my account for a day to clear. Bottom line, they wouldn’t let me just cash the damn check, and they sent me out to the car to have my husband sign it for nothing.
    I complained that WaMu actually cashed checks when you asked and credited them to your account immediately, and they looked annoyed. I’m sure it’s a bit like telling a jock that the skinny, geeky kid he used to beat up was better in bed.
    Anyways, that check has arrived just in time to pay for my moving expenses, so it’s probably a good thing that I lost it back in April and didn’t spend it. Hooray!
  18. Fair enough. It sounds like you did have to deal with someone who wasn’t really interested in helping you. I mean, policies are policies so there’s not much wiggle room there, but they should have been more upfront with you in the first place (and not made you wait in line when you got back!).
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