=6min27sec/daily

Must request transcript of previous year’s state return in to obtain info from line 31. Hard copy no longer in my possession. Having trouble setting up online account with state website. What else is new? I feel like I’m chasing my tail sometimes. Other times, I’m progressing at a glacial pace.

Everything is relative though.

Sleeping on the fold-out sofa has caught up with a vengeance. I want to work it out myself. I don’t want to go to the doctor. I might have to anyway, but I can at least try icing, heating, stretching, walking & an otc pain med.

I’m on the floor tonight. Not sleeping through the night. Sleep has been poor lately as it is. Doesn’t help that mother gets up at 3am & she’s not exactly light on her feet. Earplugs can’t touch it. But whatever, it’s free rent.

I really do not want to go to the doctor, but I probably should. I’m just being stupid & stubborn as per usual. All I need is an rx muscle relaxer & anti inflammatory, but I don’t want to go to the hassle. I hate going to the doctor.

None of this is going to get my taxes done either...

“The Change”

Father said I “howled” in my sleep this morning & that it “made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up”. What a Drama Queen.

I’m in a middle school, walking polished corridors in the late afternoon. I am leaving, but must pass through a mall to exit the building. I am out on the sidewalk looking into the horizon of a parking lot.

I am re-entering the mall, because I’m not really sure where I parked my car, only to find myself burrowing further & further underground until the tile turns to dirt.

I see a makeshift door & peek inside. I see an adult female around my age. It’s not me. It’s a woman I have never met. I meet her eyes & then duck back into the corridor so as not to intrude.

I turn around to go back the way I came & see a raccoon tumbling around the corner in a playful fashion. A young man is following. I’m trying to talk, but my words are garbled.

The more I am trying to talk, the more garbled my speech becomes & that’s when I “howled” so that the hairs on father’s neck “stood up”.

I woke myself up at that point, because I was like, did I just yell out loud?

I think this is me processing my butthurt about a number of things, including doing my old taxes, inevitable human conflict & how perimenopause isn’t “helping”.

It’s a good thing though. I want to use these things as stepping stones to own.

=6min24sec/daily

On line 35 of my state return.



Now must find 2014 state return. Where?

=5min32sec/daily



So it seems not only did I break the 5 minute barrier, but I also may have finished my federal return...

1 down, 1 to go.