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Date: 09 August 2007 01:08:37
Good day everyone!
Deary me I have been rather remiss in my wiblogging this week.
There is possible progress on the dog front, however I'll find out more about that later... possibly tonight... but not allowed to get excited because it's by no means set in stone... or even in jelly. I have to keep my mother from getting too clucky too! She was very excited when she heard about the potential dog.
But my dog now has a bowl - my mother bought it yesterday. It's blue stainless steel with a non-slip base. Blue is a good colour because dogs can see blue. Although I suppose that dogs would generally be more excited by the smell of their food than by the colour of the bowl. Hmmm perhaps we need a picture of my dog's bowl. Would anyone like to see it?
In other news, last night I did my tax return and will get back a nice potload of money - more than I thought! I love tax returns. I don't love them quite as much when I am earning enough to pay back my uni debts, however this year I was a sufficiently impoverished student to not have any HECS/HELP (HECS stood for Higher Education Contribution Scheme... it was replaced with HELP a few years ago. HELP might stand for Higher Education Loan Scheme... but I don't know) repayments taken out. AND they gave me a tax offset for being a low income earner. AND they've removed the stupid rule where if you're a student for half the year and move into full time employment, you have a reduced tax free threshold (which doesn't apply to me this year but it was a stupid rule because students who work are already paying tax with the normal tax free threshold - that rule cost me a couple of thousand dollars last time I graduated). The final AND was that the whole process took less than half an hour. I am a tax-filing demon! Even with three employers, government benefits, uni debts, private health fund and a sponsor child!
In yet more other news, I am doing a load of washing. There's a slight problem in that I seem to have run out of clothes to wear today. However hopefully I'll find something to maintain my modesty when I go out in a few hours... oh! Which reminds me! I have another picture to post if it hasn't been thrown out!