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Catching up...sorta

Today and tomorrow are going to be my drop dead deadline to get all my details done for my taxes and send them off to my bff in California. I find that it is a very upfront portrail of what has happened in the past year. How the money comes and goes is very interesting to me, yet I look at stuff I didn't need to spend money on and wish I had thought that out better. Ah the past.

I have stressed over my new spreadsheet to record my material life so much that my sister in law has taken notice and keeps asking "is it done now"? I tell her not yet, as I tweak this column and add that formula. I guess I do love spreadsheets. I do wish I had a wee bit more knowledge of it, but then I wish that about all my computer programs.

I am not sure if I posted info or pictures of the Christmas present I was making for my little brother and his wife yet. I began it in October of last year and I am just now beginning to find the finish line on it. It has taken on a few changes, as the artist in me agonized over each element. A few things completely changed after I painted them, and a new portion began. It has been quite an undertaking, but probably one of the most satisfying project I have done in a long long time. Also while unemployed and living in the spare room of my sister and sister-in-law, a good diversion from my current unemployed circumstances. I have called it the BROTHERBANNER. I have even given it it's own hashtag.  #BROTHERBANNER (you can see more on my Instagram pages here: https://www.instagram.com/phawkinsbead/

So here is an update. I will go into more detail in the next blog post as to the how-to came about.