wendybooth

I am only 42 but still remembered 17. When I was growing up my grandma did not have indoor bathroom. We had to use a chamber pot and take it out in the mornings to the wooden outhouse. My grandmother when she was alive NEVER had a shower or bath in an indoor bath tub. I still remember Charles Chips being delivered to my house that was the best day of the week. I remember walking home from school and buying bottle coke from the 5 & dime in Matthews, NC from not eating lunch at school and saving our money for on the way home. We got in trouble all the time for walking down the railroad tracks instead of taking the long way home. Oh the memories are great!!! When we were innocent!

I bet the bananna has peanut butter on it LOL

I know that I don't post much to this forum but enjoy reading everyday. Thanks to everyone!!!

thank you VERY MUCH!!!

Well here in NC we are forcasted for 6 degrees tonight. It was 14 this morning. I live in a rural area and have to keep water running in the house to keep the well from freezing.

I think that H&R exploites the people wanting their money NOW!!! If they would call a regular preparer they would learn that just 5-7 days wait would save them hundreds!!!!

I had something like this happen about three years ago and the next thing I knew was that all my data disappeared. Then the hard drive died. I recommend making a backup ASAP as well. Then go to newegg.com and purchase a new backup harddrive and install on your pc as a slave and save data to the slave as well then all can be retrived very easily. That was also the year that I learned to do a backup of all ATX files at shut down of the software. I had only been doing backups about once a week. Now I do a backup each time I shut down the program.

We have used Brother MFC 8460N for two years with no problems. It is easy to use and inexpensive. We bought at local Office Depot. The only complaint I have is that it uses about 4 toners a tax season and we do about 400 returns. The toners are around $90 we did replace the drum this year and it was around $100.

We've all had trouble with our animals, but I don't think anyone can top this one: Calling in sick to work makes me uncomfortable. No matter how legitimate my excuse, I always get the feeling that my boss thinks I'm lying. On one recent occasion, I had a valid reason but lied anyway, because the truth was just too darned humiliating. I simply mentioned that I had sustained a head injury, and I hoped I would feel up to coming in the next day. By then, I reasoned, I could think up a doozy to explain the bandage on the top of my head. The accident occurred mainly because I had given in to my wife's wishes to adopt a cute little kitty. Initially, the new acquisition was no problem. Then one morning, I was taking my shower after breakfast when I heard my wife, Deb, call out to me from the kitchen. ' Honey! The garbage disposal is dead again. Please come reset it.' 'You know where the button is,' I protested through the shower pitter-patter and steam. 'Reset it yourself!' 'But I'm scared!' she persisted. 'What if it starts going and sucks me in?' There was a meaningful pause and then, 'C'mon, it'll only take you a second.' So out I came, dripping wet and butt naked, hoping that my silent outraged nudity would make a statement about how I perceived her behavior as extremely cowardly. Sighing loudly, I squatted down and stuck my head under the sink to find the button. It is the last action I remember performing. It struck without warning, and without any respect to my circumstances. No, it wasn't the hexed disposal, drawing me into its gnashing metal teeth. It was our new kitty, who discovered the fascinating dangling objects she spied hanging between my legs. She had been poised around the corner and stalked me as I reached under the sink. And, at the precise moment when I was most vulnerable, she leapt at the toys I unwittingly offered and snagged them with her needle-like claws. I lost all rational thought to control orderly bodily movements, blindly rising at a violent rate of speed, with the full weight of a kitten hanging from my masculine region Wild animals are sometimes faced with a 'fight or flight' syndrome. Men, in this predicament, choose only the 'flight' option. I know this from experience. I was fleeing straight up into the air when the sink and cabinet bluntly and forcefully impeded my ascent. The impact knocked me out cold. When I awoke, my wife and the paramedics stood over me. Now there are not many things in this life worse than finding oneself lying on the kitchen floor butt naked in front of a group of 'been-there, done-that' paramedics. Even worse, having been fully briefed by my wife, the paramedics were all snorting loudly as they tried to conduct their work, all the while trying to suppress their hysterical laughter......and not succeeding. Somehow I lived through it all. A few days later I finally made it back in to the office, where colleagues tried to coax an explanation out of me about my head injury. I kept silent, claiming it was too painful to talk about, which it was. 'What's the matter?' they all asked, 'Cat got your tongue?' If they only knew! Why is it that only the women laugh at this?

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN GUILTY HAVE YOU EVER BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN AGE AND THINKING, SURELY I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD. WELL.... YOU'LL LOVE THIS ONE. MY NAME IS ALICE SMITH AND I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST. I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA, WHICH BORE HIS FULL NAME. SUDDENLY, I REMEMBERED A TALL, HANDSOME, DARK-HAIRED BOY WITH THE SAME NAME HAD BEEN IN MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS SOME 30-ODD YEARS AGO. COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACK THEN? UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCH THOUGHT. THIS BALDING, GRAY-HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS WAY TOO OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE. AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED MORGAN PARK HIGH SCHOOL . 'YES. YES, I DID. I'M A MUSTANG,' HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE. 'WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE?' I ASKED. HE ANSWERED , 'IN 1975. WHY DO YOU ASK?' 'YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!', I EXCLAIMED. HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY. THEN, THAT UGLY, OLD, BALD, WRINKLED, FAT ASS, GRAY-HAIRED, DECREPIT SON-OF-A-BITCH ASKED, 'WHAT DID YOU TEACH

I would not pay for technical support unless the software could not fix the problem.

This touched my heart so I had to share>>>>> The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, Transforming the yard to a winter delight. The sparkling lights in the tree I believe, Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve. My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep, Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep. In perfect contentment, or so it would seem, So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream. The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near, But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear. Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow. My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear, And I crept to the door just to see who was near. Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night, A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight. A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old, Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold. Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled, Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child. 'What are you doing?' I asked without fear, 'Come in this moment, it's freezing out here! Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve, You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!' For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift, Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts. To the window that danced with a warm fire's light Then he sighed and he said 'Its really all right, I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night.' 'It's my duty to stand at the front of the line, That separates you from the darkest of times. No one had to ask or beg or implore me, I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me. My Gramps died at ' Pearl on a day in December,' Then he sighed, 'That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers.' My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ' Nam ', And now it is my turn and so, here I am. I've not seen my own son in more than a while, But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile. Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag, The red, white, and blue... an American flag. I can live through the cold and the being alone, Away from my family, my house and my home. I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet, I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat. I can carry the weight of killing another, Or lay down my life with my sister and brother.. Who stand at the front against any and all, To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.' ' So go back inside,' he said, 'harbor no fright, Your family is waiting and I'll be all right.' 'But isn't there something I can do, at the least, 'Give you money,' I asked, 'or prepare you a feast? It seems all too little for all that you've done, For being away from your wife and your son.' Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret, 'Just tell us you love us, and never forget. To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone, To stand your own watch, no matter how long. For when we come home, either standing or dead, To know you remember we fought and we bled. Is payment enough, and with that we will trust, That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.'

Shameful!!! I really failed!!!

What happened with me was that after I logged in I set that as my homepage and had no more problems!!! I just re typed the address and logged in and set as homepage and it works with no problems.

I am glad that I am not the only one!!! LOL I have senior moments at 42 how shameful!!! My kids think I am ancient! Mama do you remember this???

Never mind I was having a brain lapse!!! I figgured it out!!!

we have an audit for a farmer and need just the 4562 statement with the details on it and I can not for the life of me figure out how to print just that page. I don't want the whole return because it is too many pages. Any help would be appreciated.

What is so funny is I teach high school and will post his to my students tommorrow. I will let you know what the answers are!!!!

That is too funny... in my neck of the woods we need 100 Baptist, 10 Cathloic and 50 Methodist. That is from the south. I needed this tonight!!!!

I to have used ATX since 2000. I will agree with you I will probally renew my ATX next year. I don't have many complaints because I only have a few clients. I like the form based software of ATX. I have tried others but with my limited PC skills the learning curve is too steep. Thanks for the uplift!!!!

WHEN MY HUSBAND PROPOSED TO ME 22 YEARS AGO, HE BOUGHT THE ENGAGEMENT RING AFTER BEING ON LAY-AWAY FOR 6 MONTHS AND I BOUGHT THE DINNER WHERE HE PROPOSED. WE HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 19 YEARS THIS YEAR MOST OF THEM HAPPY AND WITH 4 CHILDREN THAT IS ALOT. HOPE YOU HAVE MANY HAPPY YEARS. WENDY BOOTH

Call the efile help desk at 1-866-255-0654 and if you have all the appropriate documentation they will give you the correct name. I have had this with some of the Latino returns that I do with children. Hope this helps.

If you print or click on anything after creating the efile it show rejected by the EFC. It was not transmitted or anything. You just simply re-create the efile and you are good to go. This happens with every return that I do because I create the efile to double check for errors before printing. Hope this helps.

this is a first for me. Spouse of taxpayer is in NSG home with alzehiemers and they have long term care insurance. Where do I imput this information? Any help appreciated! Wendy Booth

I have a client that last year diceided to become a travel nurse. She has income in NC, FL and AZ. The majority being in FL. Is she considered a resident of NC the whole year? She still has NC drivers liscense. This is the first travel nurse that I have done. She has been client for 3 years now. Young single and on the move. She has stated that she will be in FL for all of 08 if this helps. FL 15265 AZ 4843 NC 1391 My problem is that most of her income is in FL and NC is charging state tax on her of 883. Any help would be appreciated. Wendy Booth