Present and Accounted For

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s been a while. Johnny Rocket’s head is probably exploding. Some big changes in my life, which I will blog about sometime this weekend. In the meantime, here’s a few things you can do while you wait for more Moxie brilliance.

1. Read this blog. I found Dumb Little Man via Blogspot’s little “Blogs of Note” feature, and now I am hooked. They include all these lists and links to sites with information on how to make your life easier. I like easy. I also like Sunday morning.
2. Think about doing your taxes, if you haven’t done them yet. That’s what I’ve been doing for a few weeks now, especially since I discovered I would owe a good bit of money. I don’t know which is worse: owing money in taxes, or getting a big refund only to realize that the Feds didn’t pay interest on the money they borrowed from you for a whole stinkin’ year.
3. Donate 10% of your tax refund to charity, if you have your refund check already. Have you heard of the 10 Percent Solution? I haven’t completely followed this practice, to be honest, but I love the simplicity of it.
4. Eat some Easter candy. My favorite Easter candy is a Reese’s peanut butter egg. Soft, chewy jelly beans, like Starburst jelly beans or the speckled pastel ones, are also good. I’m not a huge fan of chocolate bunnies – usually the chocolate is poor quality and life is too short to eat nasty plastic-tasting chocolate. Unless you’re PMSing something fierce.
5. Support your neighborhood retailers. Give the mom-and-pop shops some love by buying from them. Yeah, their prices might be higher than Wal-Mart, but that’s because they have a higher overhead. It won’t kill your wallet to spend $5 there.