It was a good day. Truly!

[thrihyrne]

You know why? Here's a few reasons:
~ went by to my new roommate's house and signed a lease, got a key, and we chatted. It's going to be a very, very good fit. She's excited I'm moving in, I'm excited to be moving in. Our personalities will mesh well, and I'll have plenty of alone time to write and whatnot. And heat. My room has a heating vent that works well. :) I'll be moved in next Saturday, I expect.
~ finally finished up the baby booties for fungus_files' newest bub and got them posted to her.
~ had a wonderful, so much needed phone conversation with risiepookie this morning. I'd begun to despair of ever actually getting her on the phone, and we had a good half hour chat. What a treat!
~ enjoying the reality of being able to have weekend plans with both evannichols and snottygrrl since we all live here. It's just so novel!
~ work included a viewing of The Princess Bride, with pizza, movie snacks and popcorn. I really do love working at Portland Opera.
~ quick but appreciated call to cim_halfling. ♥
~ my housemate is out at a play tonight, and with my hallmate gone, I've had the house to myself since I got home, so have been able to update my website and do other things and have music on and just totally chill out. Bedtime is coming soon..

The one WTF element is the State of Oregon's revenue department. I posted here early in tax season that I hadn't filled out my OR state income tax form properly, so they sent me a bill for $92. Which I promptly paid online. Then, a couple of weeks later, they mailed me a check for $92, saying I'd overpaid. If that weren't eyeroll-worthy enough, today I received in the mail a follow up bill, saying that not only did I owe them $92, but they've added on a 5% late fee. o_O
Um... I'll be calling the Department of Revenue tomorrow to please ask them to make up their minds one way or the other.

Tomorrow's Friday! Fics are being written! I'll be moving to a warm and cheerful environment! What a great thing. Oh, and I saw the new Star Trek. I was entertained, and had an insta-crush on the young Spock. No in-depth analysis from me on this film.

Comments

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

that sounds so positive! i hope the move goes really well.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

It should be great. She's actually housesitting for several days, so I can move things over and go ahead and put them in my room so it's just the few major items next Saturday (bed, desk, computer).

[txdville.livejournal.com]

tax departments are fun aren't they? *rollseyes*

Sounds like a very good day.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I spoke with a representative this morning and figured out what had happened. I'd paid online and paid it to my initial return, not my initial deficiency letter. Headdesk indeed. So now I'm sending them a check with an explanation letter and that should be the end of it.

It was a good day! Today should be as well; need to keep working on a Wraeththu sex scene, lol.

[cim-halfling.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am SO glad you called last night!! It was so unexpected and happy-making.

I am still grining about our visit last week. What a treat to see you in person and re-connect.

And I'm loving the good news about your new digs. I have to say, I while do love what Julia did with her house, you are right about it NOT being an environment that welcomes others to live there. Beautiful place to visit but...

Hopefully we will have a longer chat tomorrow!

*HUGS*

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

It was lovely to have our brief chat! Yes, Julia's house is great, but it really is a manifestation of her. It didn't really strike me until I was talking with my aunt about the new place and that my room is totally empty, and she said, "Well, that's how it should have been anyway. You're renting a room- you should have the whole room." That's it in a nutshell. After being woken up at 5:00 by one of the cats who wanted to be let outdoors, I was woken up again by the neighbors who are loud and their car is loud (I've had the window open; yet another reason to move on!) and then had crazy dreams about Julia and moving. In my dream there was an additional bedroom and she was going to have one of my Opera colleagues move in an the room was totally empty; I remember thinking, "That's not fair!" LOL.

We'll talk this weekend!

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Congrats on what sounds like a very, very good move!

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! And I don't know that I ever replied to your comment about meeting up some weekend in June— that would be great. I'll wait to get specific details until I'm moved in and then we can look at calendars. :D

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Perfecto.

[persephone100.livejournal.com]

So, so good to read such very happy news from you!

My mother-in-law had a similar WTF experience with her taxes. Makes you wonder if they even have a clue!

I'd love to see the new Star Tek movie. The only person in my family who's interested is my oldest son. Hopefully, we'll get to go together and see it.

Sounds like life is good!

***hugs***

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

I'm at a good time right now! And very pleased about it. A second evening in a row coming home to a blissfully empty house; empty save cats, anyway. :D

Got the taxes thing resolved; am now sending a check, again, and explaining what happened. Sheesh.

I think you'll get a kick out of the new ST. It's a fun romp, though Kirk does get beaten up several times in the movie!

(((hugs)))