February 8, 2018

I appear to have already broken my own blogging resolution and that is to write an entry, no matter how short, at the end of each day. This is likely because I dealt with a very stressful time the last couple of weeks & even though I wanted to blog and write about in my journal or in this medium, to do so would have been inappropriate and unprofessional, so I abstained. I recently started writing daily in journal again as I'm trying to finish the journal book that I've had for close to 10 years and have written in on and off for close to 9 years. I'm trying to finish the journal book this year.

I finished my taxes yesterday. It was the earliest I've ever finished them. We'll be receive a nice refund check, certainly not as large as if we'd had children this year, but certainly the largest we've ever received. I'm not going to thank #45 and his ridiculous tax reform law for it either.

Today is my uncle's (mom's brother) birthday. We don't speak much, but we are connected via "friends" on Facebook. He's 65 today. I sent him a card with a little note and pun joke in it and posted a birthday GIF to his Facebook wall. We don't speak much, mostly because we don't see eye to eye on many things and his personality is the opposite of mine, so I'm sure I've gotten on his nerves a lot over the years. hopefully he has a nice birthday with his wife and daughter, my cousin.

All for today.

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