Bed Bugs and Taxes

I try to be as optimistic as I can. Life is easier when we dwell on the good things instead of the bad things. Take today, for example. I could complain about a few things, but I'm going to try to focus on the good things about today.

First, I don't have bed bugs. I never really thought I had bed bugs, but today I was at my mom's house and she planted the idea in my mind. I was showing her the weird itchy bumps all over my body and she got on the handy-dandy world wide web in search of photos of people with bumps on their skin similar to mine. What did she find? Bed bugs. Being faced with even the slighted possibility of bed bugs is very unsettling and totally creepy.

Fortunately, I got a call from my doctor not long after this that put an end to the bed bug controversy. My blood results were in and they show that the fun little liver disease that I had my last pregnancy, known as Intrahepatic Cholestasis of Pregnancy (ICP), wants to make another appearance this pregnancy. The main symptom of this disease is very intense itching that keeps you up all night. (Which also explains why I am blogging at 3 am.) To read more about it, you can click here.

The great news is that now is that there is a reason for my itching and my mom's theory of little bugs crawling all over me at night can be dismissed. But, did I check my bed tonight? Yes, more than once.

Ok, so admittedly it does suck to have ICP, but I already knew that the reoccurance with it is 60-70%. At least now I now and I can stop worrying about whether I am going to get it or not. Oh, and another great thing...all you mean people that voted that my baby is going to come late are now officially wrong! Most ICP patients are induced around 37 weeks.

So instead of staying home and feeling sorry for myself, I went to H&R Block and had them take a look at my taxes from 2007. Yes, 2007, not 2008. Apparently the IRS doesn't take too kindly to people when they leave off important things from their taxes, like the sale of securities. Anyway, I forgot to include that on our tax return and the IRS didn't like it.

Since I had already screwed up once big-time,we decided to have H&R Block double check my amended return so that we didn't get in trouble again. And guess what? Not only did I do it right this time, but the lady said that it was so quick and easy for her to look over, that she wasn't even going to charge me! How nice is that? I told her that I was now going to be their personal spokesperson and that I was going to tell everyone I knew to go there.

So, some may say that today might have been kinda crappy. I might realize it tomorrow- especially when I'm out of my mind tired from being up all night itching. But, for now I'm going to feel happy that we don't have bed bugs and that somebody helped me with my taxes for free.

Feel free to leave a comment about why your life sucks so that mine will continue to seem ok.

PS: Please forgive me if any of this resembles nonsensical incoherent rambling. I'm very tired and I really have no idea if this will make sense tomorrow.