Audited AGAIN!
So i got an audit from NY state yesterday for taxes from 2003. This was the year i got my inheritance from mom.. so i was audited by the IRS too... but now im getting it from NY. $5600.. Money I don't have unless I break into my brokerage account, which i will have to pay the fines for doing that next tax season. So frustrating. I think it's really frustrating that you have to pay taxes on money you never asked for... but.. I guess Im going to take all my money out of the brokerage account.. about $26,000 in there.. ill probably open up a new savings account and put 15-20K in there, and the rest will be going to new york state. HSBC has a new savings/CD with a 5.5%apr.. which is pretty sweet.. So im off to the bank tomorrow morning to sort that out.
In other news..
Things are going really really well. Things with Drew are back to normal and im not letting myself get ahead of things.. one day at a time with this one. It will be a different story when I move to Vestal in August with my friend Melissa. The distance is whats making it hard for both of us. He's coming up tomorrow to hang out.
School is good... Puccini class at cornell is intense and I need to get going on a paper topic. Im really nervous about writting a paper for 2 verdi/puccini scholars. What new info/ideas can I possibly bring to them. Im going to see if I can do some kind of performance/presentation. I might just take all the puccini heroines and compare and contrast them... or take the death scenes and compare them... I don't know.. stupid Cornell!!
Singing is going GREAT! Things are really starting to click with my technique and my confidence has started to build. Im still postponing my recital to Ocotber, even though im done with Ithaca this coming may. (as long as I pass my theory comps!! GAH!!!)
Whatelse..
my twin was in the hospital last weekend with an Ulcer... she is fine now accept for the fact that she's probably really sick of soup.. Im just waiting for it to happen to me now... ya know the whole twin thang.. hah
I put in my audition packets to OperaWorks in LA, Seagle Music Colony in upstate NY, and Opera in the Ozarks for the summer. I find out about OperaWorks this coming monday.. seagle in mid-march and Ozarks end of march. Im also competing in the Rochester NATS at the end of March. Opera workshop is good. I have 2 scenes... Brittens 'rape of lucretia', im the female chorus. I also am Paquette in Candide .. were (once again).. doing "make our garden grow". Im just thankful I finally have some opera scenes.. I have a lot going for me this semester and I dont want to take it for granted.. gotta keep goin if this is what I want to do for my life!!!
ok - thats enough...
I just caught Greys Anatomy finally.. very sad episode and all i could think about was mom.. and ofcourse I cried.. but its a lot easier to cry now.. if that makes sense..
peace out,
Mel
In other news..
Things are going really really well. Things with Drew are back to normal and im not letting myself get ahead of things.. one day at a time with this one. It will be a different story when I move to Vestal in August with my friend Melissa. The distance is whats making it hard for both of us. He's coming up tomorrow to hang out.
School is good... Puccini class at cornell is intense and I need to get going on a paper topic. Im really nervous about writting a paper for 2 verdi/puccini scholars. What new info/ideas can I possibly bring to them. Im going to see if I can do some kind of performance/presentation. I might just take all the puccini heroines and compare and contrast them... or take the death scenes and compare them... I don't know.. stupid Cornell!!
Singing is going GREAT! Things are really starting to click with my technique and my confidence has started to build. Im still postponing my recital to Ocotber, even though im done with Ithaca this coming may. (as long as I pass my theory comps!! GAH!!!)
Whatelse..
my twin was in the hospital last weekend with an Ulcer... she is fine now accept for the fact that she's probably really sick of soup.. Im just waiting for it to happen to me now... ya know the whole twin thang.. hah
I put in my audition packets to OperaWorks in LA, Seagle Music Colony in upstate NY, and Opera in the Ozarks for the summer. I find out about OperaWorks this coming monday.. seagle in mid-march and Ozarks end of march. Im also competing in the Rochester NATS at the end of March. Opera workshop is good. I have 2 scenes... Brittens 'rape of lucretia', im the female chorus. I also am Paquette in Candide .. were (once again).. doing "make our garden grow". Im just thankful I finally have some opera scenes.. I have a lot going for me this semester and I dont want to take it for granted.. gotta keep goin if this is what I want to do for my life!!!
ok - thats enough...
I just caught Greys Anatomy finally.. very sad episode and all i could think about was mom.. and ofcourse I cried.. but its a lot easier to cry now.. if that makes sense..
peace out,
Mel