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beccatoria) wrote2008-06-25 12:33 pm
beccatoria) wrote2008-06-25 12:33 pm
MONEY! ENDLESS MONEY!
DUDE.
I RETURNED MY TAX THINGY TO THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE I QUIT MY JOB A FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE END OF THE TAX YEAR AND FIGURED THAT THEY PROBABLY OWED ME ABOUT £300.
SO THEY WERE PRANNITS AND I SPENT MONTHS CHASING THEM AND BEING TOLD I HAD TO FILL OUT DIFFERENT FORMS AND GETTING CONFUSED.
AND FINALLY, TODAY, I GET MY CHEQUE.
FOR £1,381. THIS IS APPROXIMATELY $2,700.
WTF?!
MONEY! ENDLESS MONEY!
I mean everything on looks...vaguely right (not that I really understand taxes) and basically it looks like they were taxing me at the wrong rate for eighteen months. o.O
But the point is, I just got nearly a grand and a half of FREE MONEY.
I'm torn between the desire to be responsible, use it to pay off 90% of my overdraft so I can go to S. Korea almost debt free (which would be nice since at part of the reason we were going to go there was to help get rid of lingering college debts), and the desire to take some of it and go SHOPPING. I'm not even a shopping-spree-a-holic. There's nothing I even want right now.
I just.
MONEY. THIS IS MORE MONEY THAN I'VE EVER BEEN GIVEN IN A CHEQUE BEFORE. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS HAPPENED. *FLAIL*
I RETURNED MY TAX THINGY TO THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE I QUIT MY JOB A FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE END OF THE TAX YEAR AND FIGURED THAT THEY PROBABLY OWED ME ABOUT £300.
SO THEY WERE PRANNITS AND I SPENT MONTHS CHASING THEM AND BEING TOLD I HAD TO FILL OUT DIFFERENT FORMS AND GETTING CONFUSED.
AND FINALLY, TODAY, I GET MY CHEQUE.
FOR £1,381. THIS IS APPROXIMATELY $2,700.
WTF?!
MONEY! ENDLESS MONEY!
I mean everything on looks...vaguely right (not that I really understand taxes) and basically it looks like they were taxing me at the wrong rate for eighteen months. o.O
But the point is, I just got nearly a grand and a half of FREE MONEY.
I'm torn between the desire to be responsible, use it to pay off 90% of my overdraft so I can go to S. Korea almost debt free (which would be nice since at part of the reason we were going to go there was to help get rid of lingering college debts), and the desire to take some of it and go SHOPPING. I'm not even a shopping-spree-a-holic. There's nothing I even want right now.
I just.
MONEY. THIS IS MORE MONEY THAN I'VE EVER BEEN GIVEN IN A CHEQUE BEFORE. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THIS HAPPENED. *FLAIL*
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I hope to make progress on The Thing before next week! What happened was I had all these other things I've been meaning to get to and I finally decided that, OK, I'm going to work on accomplishing those things so I won't have them to stress about any longer and then I can work on The Thing. ;) The awesome thing is that in addressing the other things some cool things happened! :)
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But I do have an idea! Yesterday I found out a friend is coming to stay for a week in a few weeks' time, so I think I might put a chunk of the cash aside for a Grand Day Out Somewhere. I think I like that idea. But we'll see what she has to say on the subject...
Re: the Thing! YAY! And hooray for Other Things that make Cool Things happen. And Things.
Regarding my own schedule, some stuff has been pushed around, so I'll probably be working on the Prelinger Thing this weekend and early next week, but then hopefully we can get to the Hilarious Thing later next week? Hope that's all right? But also send me stuff whenever you're ready because it's not like I can't MULTITASK! (Well okay, I'm not great at that, but I also have the attention span of a goldfish, so many things at once = good).
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And A Grand Day Out sounds...grand!
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Now I just have to hope that I can do as well with the Thing which, if you hadn't gathered from my recent post, I'm looking forward to! (Though I hope it's clear the post is in the spirit of bouncy boredness rather than bugging you specifically - there really is no hurry except my own meanderingly short attention span... :p)
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