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Chota Mota for a Day in May
May. 10th, 2010 11:26 amGreetings from Lin who hasn't posted for awhile! I have some recent chota mota to share -- chota mota means "this and that" in Urdu (literally "small fat") for those who are new to my friends list! So here is my recent this and that, in extremely random order...
I got tired of my journal's background not fitting properly because of my computer's screen size, and since I was feeling like it was time for a change, I've been playing with my journal's style a bit. When it came right down to it, I didn't want to change the theme, so I only changed the background picture and some of the coloring -- it made a big difference! Now I'm happy again with my LJ. ;-) I'm not sure how you all see it when you look at my journal, but hopefully it looks as nice to you as it does to me. Now I just have to work with my profile page to make it more interesting and less random.
I have been feeling a bit cranky about all the Mother's Day hype that's been on TV and in my email from Hallmark and online, etc. Mother's Day will be forever linked to my mom's passing now -- since she died the day before Mother's Day two years ago -- and for some reason, it seemed particularly on my mind this year. Maybe it was partly because I wasn't going to be able to spend the day with my dad and family -- who knows? However, I am happy to report that all is well again, after a very sweet sermon at church yesterday in honor of mothers. Somehow it set me right again, and today I am thinking happy Mom thoughts! :-)
Today my goal is to sort and file all our papers. One of the things I'm looking for as I sort is a copy of last year's income tax forms -- it seems the IRS doesn't think we filed last year, and they are holding our for-once-hefty refund from this year until we file or they determine if we owe something or not. Since we don't trust them to figure it properly to show we don't owe anything -- and since we DID FILE -- we are trying to find those sadly not-in-the-right-file-folder forms from last year. This is the second year in a row we've had some kind of stupid problem with filing our income tax, hope it won't become a trend.
I have been watching a lot of anime lately, as well as listening to Japanese audio, and I'm really feel like I'm starting to pick some of it up. Not in a tangible way, but I bet if I started studying it a bit now, I would make some progress. At least with spoken Japanese! I love other languages and have a good ear for it, as well as a knack for learning them -- that was my major in university -- so I'm thinking seriously about trying to learn Japanese, just because it sounds cool. Hopefully it won't mess with my ability to speak Urdu... ;-)
The rest of my chota mota will have to wait until another time -- my hubby is hovering in the background, making "I need to use the computer" noises!
I got tired of my journal's background not fitting properly because of my computer's screen size, and since I was feeling like it was time for a change, I've been playing with my journal's style a bit. When it came right down to it, I didn't want to change the theme, so I only changed the background picture and some of the coloring -- it made a big difference! Now I'm happy again with my LJ. ;-) I'm not sure how you all see it when you look at my journal, but hopefully it looks as nice to you as it does to me. Now I just have to work with my profile page to make it more interesting and less random.
I have been feeling a bit cranky about all the Mother's Day hype that's been on TV and in my email from Hallmark and online, etc. Mother's Day will be forever linked to my mom's passing now -- since she died the day before Mother's Day two years ago -- and for some reason, it seemed particularly on my mind this year. Maybe it was partly because I wasn't going to be able to spend the day with my dad and family -- who knows? However, I am happy to report that all is well again, after a very sweet sermon at church yesterday in honor of mothers. Somehow it set me right again, and today I am thinking happy Mom thoughts! :-)
Today my goal is to sort and file all our papers. One of the things I'm looking for as I sort is a copy of last year's income tax forms -- it seems the IRS doesn't think we filed last year, and they are holding our for-once-hefty refund from this year until we file or they determine if we owe something or not. Since we don't trust them to figure it properly to show we don't owe anything -- and since we DID FILE -- we are trying to find those sadly not-in-the-right-file-folder forms from last year. This is the second year in a row we've had some kind of stupid problem with filing our income tax, hope it won't become a trend.
I have been watching a lot of anime lately, as well as listening to Japanese audio, and I'm really feel like I'm starting to pick some of it up. Not in a tangible way, but I bet if I started studying it a bit now, I would make some progress. At least with spoken Japanese! I love other languages and have a good ear for it, as well as a knack for learning them -- that was my major in university -- so I'm thinking seriously about trying to learn Japanese, just because it sounds cool. Hopefully it won't mess with my ability to speak Urdu... ;-)
The rest of my chota mota will have to wait until another time -- my hubby is hovering in the background, making "I need to use the computer" noises!
