so we filed our taxes yesterday.
why are those forms so complicated? they ask questions and then give you links to explanations of the questions that just confuse you more. i don't know if we answered everything correctly, but we sure tried to be honest and i think that's all you can do when it's so ridiculously impossible to understand.
anyhow, somewhere between the student credit and the marriage credit we landed a large sum of unexpected cash. it's nice to know that uncle sam recognizes that a family living below the poverty line deserves a break once a year.
what did i do with my refund? i went to the toy store.
well, first i bought a plane ticket to florida so i can visit my brother, his wife, and my darling baby-girl niece. then i went to the toy store to buy all kinds of presents for a sweet little girl.
to tell the truth, toys 'r' us did not impress me at all. such cheap crap in there--everything is mass produced and plastic with batteries. ugh. even the cabbage patch kids have hot pink stripes in their hair. and what is with these 'bratz' dolls? they are so ugly. everything is so sexed up. where are the toys that speak to childhood innocence and wholesomeness? i looked at the baby dolls there. some were downright scary. i can't believe someone would manufacture (and yes, they are manufactured, not crafted) those ugly things. the rest were so cheaply made. half of them came sitting on toilets. disgusting. i left toys 'r' us empty handed. well, okay. two very small gifts from there. but i had hoped to buy heaps.
today j. and i went to ipswich for lunch at choates. a lovely teriyaki chicken salad for me and a ham and cheese sandwich for j. then we walked across the street to the best specialty toy store i have ever been to in my life. all the toys in there scream wholesome innocence and childhood. we walked away with heaps.
