Hey the taxes are filed, not just extended. Although I may go back and review later and file an admendment if it would make a huge difference once I get the medical expenses added up, but usually they don't add up to enough for a deduction. Luckily I had already taken care of the info for the rest. Only one gripe, my employer never takes out enough state taxes so I had to pay them. It really irriatates me, but then again I don't work for them anymore and other than that they were good to me, so I should quit complaining. Everyone knows taxes and death are inevitable.
I know this is a week of sorrow following the Virginia Tech Massacre. So while I am trying to interject a bit of humor with the following, please know I am concerned and praying for the school and it's students.
I got this last week and thought it was funny to share.
You might be a New Mexican if?
- You can correctly pronounce words like Tesuqe, Cerrillos, Acoma, Buena, Ocotillo, Pojaque and Isleta, and you know what or where they are.
- You have been told by at least one out of state vendor that they are going to charge you extra for inernational shipping.
- You expect to pay more if your house is made out of mud.
- You can order your Big Mac with green chile, not jalapenos, green chile.
- You buy salsa by the half gallon.
- You know what it means when they say it's from Hatch.
- Your Christmas decorations include red chile ristras, a ton of sand and paper bags.
- Most of your favorite restaurants beging with La, El, or Los.
- You have an extra freezer just for Green Chile.
- You consider Billy the Kid the state hero.
- You think 6 tons of crushed rock makes a beautiful front yard.
- You ran for state legislature, hoping to win, just so you could speed legally.
- You pass on the right because you think it is the fast lane.
- Your swamp cooler got knocked off the roof by a dust devil.
- You don't understand why some people find Roswell so fascinating, they have obviously never been there.
- You can actually hear the Taos hum.
- All your out of state relatives want to know if it is safe to drink the water.
- When someone says they visited "Las Vegas" you think of a small town in the NW corner of the state.
- You iron your jeans to dress up.
- Cowboy hats and boots aren't Halloween attire.
- Your other vehicle is also a pick up truck.
- Two of your cousins are in Santa Fe, one in the legislature and the other in the penitentiary.
- You know what it means when a waitress asks "red or green." (The official state question by the way.) She knows what you mean when you say make it Christmas.
- You don't think it's odd when you are in line at the grocery store and the conversations around you alternate every other word between English and Spanish, and you understand it.
- You have seen the bat flight at Carlsbad Caverns, and have a shirt that says "Bats need friends too."
- You price shop for tortillas.
- You think Sonic is "America's Favorite Drive In."
- You are relieved when the pavement ends, because it has less potholes.
- You know you are "special" because you are from the land of enchantment.
- You had forts out in the desert as a kid, which is also your backyard so to speak.
- You know what the night sky looks like full of stars and not pollution and light.
- You have swam in an arroyo, as an adult!
- You have cooked an egg on the sidewalk.
- You know or are a real Indian, uhm Native Americans.
- You know what a horny toad is.
- You can identify a quail, peacok, coyote, and roadrunner by the sound it makes.
- You stop to let a covey of quail cross the road.
- You can buys snow sleds in the summer to use at White Sands, but can't find one during the winter.
- You've slept outside on the trampoline, or in the back of a pick up truck.
- You have a relative or know someone in almost every town in the state.
- You love the smell of rain in the desert.
- You have at least one rattlesnake story.
- You have been to Mexico, just to party, shop, or for dental care.
- In the summer anything will work as a swimming pool, including horse troughs, puddles.
- You have ridden a horse through town and tied it up while you went in a store.
- You know how to barter in three languages.
- You could probably win on Survivor, since you have been hunting and fishing since you were five.
- One of your favorite pastimes is rock hunting.
- You have know where to find or have seen the duck races, the world's largest enchiladas, the VLA, bottomless lakes, petrified forests, pueblos, pow wows or rodeos.
- You spent your high school years saying you were leaving this backward hell hole and know you have either moved back or are planning to retire here.
