"Then just pull the shower curtain and don't look. I GOTTA GO!"

"That much?!" Momoko set her W-2s next to her 1099 from Oracle and sighed, scrolling down the IRS webpage. "Okay. 'Notice 2005-77 provides that a nonresident alien whose only U.S. source income is wages is not required to file a U.S. federal income tax return'," she read from the federal website, "'unless his U.S. source wages exceed the personal ( Read more... )

Momoko had called on Friday morning to tell Jaime that she was going to be late coming home this weekend due to a last minute job from Oracle. It was an easy one, she'd assured him ( Read more... )

Momoko had spent the morning putting in job applications and then the afternoon shopping for birthday presents for Lion-o and Jono. Now, she was just looking around the city and trying to get used to where things were. She was going to be moving here all the way in just a few weeks ( Read more... )

For the first time in a while, Momoko had a nightmare wake her. She had no idea what had triggered it, and couldn't really remember any details, but the feelings from it were strong enough that she didn't want to even try to go back to sleep for fear of having another. Instead, she transformed and took off out her window for an hour or so of flying ( Read more... )

Jaime had enough to move, but Momoko had insisted on taking a few of her own things along as well, so the u-haul was rather tightly packed. Jaime had insisted on driving the whole way, so Momoko had insisted that they at least stop in a small town along the way for a break and to eat the lunch she'd packed ( Read more... )

"/No. By the time I got home he'd pretty much calmed back down and mom was the one upset. You totally need to explain things better, Nee-chan./" Kuriko made her sister's old Hyper Blossom doll do a cartwheel, landing a kick squarely in the chest of a Ted Kord Blue Beetle action figure. "'Ah! I've been defeated ( Read more... )

Momoko shrieked in frustration. Internally of course. He was her father, no matter how old she was or how crazy the declaration that she go to her room.

She grabbed her phone and sent a quick message to Jaime:

My dad just grounded me. Forever. No mention of threats to you but my mom's eye was totally twitching. Xray all packages before opening ( Read more... )

For anyone who may be excitedly looking forward to getting invitations to Momoko's graduation from college? Well, you were probably receiving the mass whine email she was sending out...

It wasn't lengthy like the one she was sending to her parents or the Reyes', but it got her point across...


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Momoko dangled the take-out between Oracle and the monitor she was facing. "I brought dinner! You do like orange chicken with almonds, right ( Read more... )