serafaery

Needed to lock down my last couple entries because of too much detail about money/income related to the messed up taxes fiasco. I'm still feeling nauseated and unsettled about it but slightly less, it will diminish as I get used to the fact that this is just my new normal, now. I know they cut something like 81% of the staff at the IRS so they're basically purposefully messing up people's taxes and letting us drown in the fallout. My issue of payments from a secondary spouse not being applied to a joint return is known and common, the software is antiquated and can't resolve the two SSNs automatically, who knows if/when it will get fixed or what. But at least, it happens enough that they probably have a system in place for fixing it, once they get through the stacks of mistakes and eventually reach mine? Going to try not to pay it so much upset and attention, it's just really hard. We already bent over backwards and went so far out of our way to make sure we did everything right and this is clearly their mistake. So. Trying to relax about it.

It's a tough adjustment taking away Avalanche's free reign. She keeps going to the cat door and crying. I am wondering if I seal up the mystery hole in the bottom of the fence under the clematis and maybe somehow install a barrier so she can't climb up the tree, maybe that will solve the problem, or at least make it so I can let her out when I'm here at the house but not necessarily watching her.

I need to do some research on pet GPS devices, too. If she had something that actually worked and also alerted me immediately if she leaves, that would allow her more freedom also.

I am pretty sure when we lost her the other night she was just hiding under the neighbor's deck and not coming out. I shined my flashlight under there but it's a huge deck and I couldn't see all the way inside of it.

So I am playing with her and hyper focused on her in the mornings in the yard so she doesn't go anywhere, which takes away from all of my relaxation in the mornings, as it's about an hour of pure Avalanche supervision and play, but I want her to have some freedom and playtime so, I will get used to it. Just a tough adjustment.

It's fun to daydream about building some elaborate structure that she could run up like the tree but in the middle of the yard so she can't escape. But that's probably way overkill.

It's such a perfect day already. I need to get dressed and head to the dentist. Grateful I got in! Not looking forward to images as I just had that done, but will probably have to start over since this is a new doctor. sigh. At least it's close by.