Could this BE more complicated? Forget the wedding. The most complicated thing in my life right now is filing my US income taxes! I have foreign earned income (on which I have paid taxes to a foreign government) and after reading “publication 54” am fairly certain that I am tax exempt. Unfortunately however, I still have to file. It’s such a puzzle! I finally figured out that I needed to read publication 54. Then, half way through the publication I read, “Now refer to publication (970) if the above circumstances apply to you (which of course they did)…I feel like I’m going back and forth between publications like a “Choose Your Own Adventure!” I haven’t even started on form 1040 yet…The only good news is that I get an automatic two-month extension because I live abroad.
Not much else is going on right now. Work is incredibly boring this week; I have far too little to do. I’m not sure why, this is pretty unusual. Yesterday I ordered some stuff for the wedding. EBay is becoming my new favorite place to shop! I ordered a whole bunch of cute “wedding” disposable cameras for only $2.40 each! Trust me, that’s cheap! Especially since I used my Swedish credit card and the dollar is not doing well right now. (Very good for me as long as I have foreign income and shop in the US! Very bad for Americans who want to shop in Europe! Sorry guys!)
After work today I will finally go to the optician to get fitted for contact lenses. I’m VERY excited about this! For those of you who don’t see me daily (OK that’s all of you) I’ve become a constant glasses-wearer. If someone had to describe me they’d say, the petite girl with the dark hair and the silver glasses. It will be SO nice to dump those! Plus I will be able to wear sunglasses while driving again! :)
Yesterday I learned that my future last name means “brave” in Dutch. (It’s also an old word meaning “swift” in Swedish.) I like the Dutch, because when you put it together with my current last name (future middle name) I become “The Brave Embroiderer!”
Not much else is going on right now. Work is incredibly boring this week; I have far too little to do. I’m not sure why, this is pretty unusual. Yesterday I ordered some stuff for the wedding. EBay is becoming my new favorite place to shop! I ordered a whole bunch of cute “wedding” disposable cameras for only $2.40 each! Trust me, that’s cheap! Especially since I used my Swedish credit card and the dollar is not doing well right now. (Very good for me as long as I have foreign income and shop in the US! Very bad for Americans who want to shop in Europe! Sorry guys!)
After work today I will finally go to the optician to get fitted for contact lenses. I’m VERY excited about this! For those of you who don’t see me daily (OK that’s all of you) I’ve become a constant glasses-wearer. If someone had to describe me they’d say, the petite girl with the dark hair and the silver glasses. It will be SO nice to dump those! Plus I will be able to wear sunglasses while driving again! :)
Yesterday I learned that my future last name means “brave” in Dutch. (It’s also an old word meaning “swift” in Swedish.) I like the Dutch, because when you put it together with my current last name (future middle name) I become “The Brave Embroiderer!”
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