The Dentist

I haven't been to the dentist in a while. I've been thinking about making an appointment just to get it over with. I'm sure I'll get lectured about flossing. I floss pretty routinely but sometimes I lose my way and I get more irregular with it. Either way since it has been around a year and half since I've been to a dentist I'm sure that I have a fair amount of plaque buildup that should really be taken care of.

The other night I had a dream I went to the dentist and my hygienist was Donna from That 70's Show. She told me I had a cavity in one of my lower teeth along the front and that they were just going to pull the tooth out altogether. It didn't really sound that bad coming from her and I haven't really decided whether this was a nightmare or not. I'd probably say it wasn't because I woke up before any extracting took place.

I haven't really ever broken the visit every 6 months routine until this time around. Unless things have changed they don't have hygienists that look like Hollywood actresses where I get my teeth cleaned. (Donna above, Jackie below). One can only hope....or dream I guess.

Hockey Team Photo

Somewhere there's someone from this photo who can tell us about what happened next. I want to hear that story.

Poop Mustache

Tax Cheat

Turns out I was cheater in 2005. I got a big fat envelope in the mail from the IRS last week that turned out to be a bill with interest added. The letter said they had records of $6300 something in income that I hadn't reported on my 2005 return. I remember when I did my taxes that year that I left some out but I thought since I hadn't heard anything for so long is wasn't anything anyway. I practically forgot about it. I got a 1099-misc with that amount on it a while after I got all the rest of my tax documents that year. I used Turbotax on the web like usual and when I tried to enter this income, it led me down a path of questions that I had no answers for. I think they were questions like what was my company name and what was its' Federal tax ID. I didn't like the look of it and since I couldn't answer the questions I made a note in my records and I just skipped it. I figured they'd come after me later if it was an issue. This income was the second lump sum my employer paid me for creating our website. When I reported that same source of income on my 2004 return, Turbotax didn't ask me all those weird questions. My employer paid me as an outside vendor rather than an employee so it wasn't on my W-2 like normal and my checks for this never had taxes or anything taken out of them. I've used that money mostly for investments since then. Good thing I'm disciplined and I didn't blow it on bags of weed or hookers or something so I won't have any problems paying this bill now. Actually I'm using my return from this year to pay it. What sucks is I was making plans for that money before I got this bill in the mail. I got a few thousand back this year on my return and now I have to pay it right back again.