so another week passes and i'm still prisoner in my own home. not much has gone on in the last week. wendy was gracious enough to pick up a gamecube for me. so i got 2 extra controllers and mario party 4. diem made a post on her blog yesterday. sounds like she's having a blast. i'm going in to get a mri done this thursday. hopefully it will reveal that i won't need surgery. i am finally able to lye down flat with only very minor discomfort, which should speed up the progress and let me get some descent sleep for a change.



i'm finally starting feel that i've run out of things to keep me occupied. i'm just doing things to keep me occupied, so i don't go insane. my latest downloads have been season 1 and 2 of x-men on the FOX network. then it was Ducktales. I think I have all but a handful of episodes. now i'm starting the most challenging collection of all. The Twilight zone from the late to mid 60's. none of that new crap. i have close to 100 episodes so far. which means i'm about 2/3 of the way done. and the other 1/3 is hard to come by. i have come up with all these different tips and tricks to get the downloads going through kazaa lite. pretty sure i won't have a complete collection. but that's better than spending $500 for the 48 dvd set.



one thing that did happen is that i was able to do my taxes, almost completely paper free. all i had to look for were the school loan interest forms that they had sent me that i discarded into a plastic bag, also known as my misc filing cabinet. i had also lost my w2 forms. being stuck at home, and only having a day and a half to complete it, i was getting a little frantic. so i gave turbo tax online a shot. and wow. i'm never doing taxes without turbo tax again. last year, i used taxact, and it wasn't nearly as good. i ended up losing a few hundred dollars last year because i did not know the proper time to file my losses in the stock market. turbo tax costed me $70 this year....way more than i was expecting. i'm definitely going to look for better deals online rather than paying full price because i've waited till the last minute. turbo tax is so convienient. i can download my w2's right from the website. and i can download my etade data right into in. right then and there, i have completed 65% of the forms i need to fill out. just click through the rest and you're done. i couldn't be a happier customer. i ddn't have to mail anything. i had to go jump through multiple hoops california has set up so i can file online. but after that got taken care of, i got away scott free without having to send a single piece of paper to the IRS.



i only have 2 weeks left before my vacation time runs out. i really hope that i'll be able to make it into work by then.