Mother’s Day
May. 11th, 2026 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI have a hard and fast rule against going out to eat on Mother’s Day because restaurants are, on the old-fashioned term — cray-cray on Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day and I 100% go out to eat plenty, I do not need to participate in the madness.
I walked with M. I looked at tons of patio furniture online (or, as R. refers to it, “Paddy O Furniture” and further makes dad jokes about it).
T. came over with his suit shirts and shoes for me to deliver to Washington DC for his internship this summer. I ordered a Halfday. I’m going to bring it on the train with me to Baltimore and hand it over to my sister while we are at Balticon and she’ll bring it back home with her and get it to him when he gets there. As One Does. She’s going to hand over a couple pillows that A. and I bought in Richmond a year or so ago and didn’t care to bring home on the plane, and some of the towels that we sent her way when we decided to change a color scheme in one of the bathrooms. This is a pleasing solution to getting him set up for the two months he is in DC while not buying more stuff AND not shipping a bunch of stuff all over the place.
We arranged this late last night, while we were also making other schemes and plans and researching the impact on one’s Medicare Premiums for Parts B and D of selling a house. Because this is apparently a point of concern for someone who may or may not be moving into the new house with us. I had previously been unaware of this corner of the tax code / entitlement law, so I had to look up the information, but it doesn’t look like the damage could possibly be worse than $10K, and honestly, if you manage to hit the max or exceed it, didn’t you get enough money out of the avoided capital gains (on the exemption amount)? (Answer, oh yes you definitely did! THAT is a part of the tax code I am aware of.)
I walked with M. I looked at tons of patio furniture online (or, as R. refers to it, “Paddy O Furniture” and further makes dad jokes about it).
T. came over with his suit shirts and shoes for me to deliver to Washington DC for his internship this summer. I ordered a Halfday. I’m going to bring it on the train with me to Baltimore and hand it over to my sister while we are at Balticon and she’ll bring it back home with her and get it to him when he gets there. As One Does. She’s going to hand over a couple pillows that A. and I bought in Richmond a year or so ago and didn’t care to bring home on the plane, and some of the towels that we sent her way when we decided to change a color scheme in one of the bathrooms. This is a pleasing solution to getting him set up for the two months he is in DC while not buying more stuff AND not shipping a bunch of stuff all over the place.
We arranged this late last night, while we were also making other schemes and plans and researching the impact on one’s Medicare Premiums for Parts B and D of selling a house. Because this is apparently a point of concern for someone who may or may not be moving into the new house with us. I had previously been unaware of this corner of the tax code / entitlement law, so I had to look up the information, but it doesn’t look like the damage could possibly be worse than $10K, and honestly, if you manage to hit the max or exceed it, didn’t you get enough money out of the avoided capital gains (on the exemption amount)? (Answer, oh yes you definitely did! THAT is a part of the tax code I am aware of.)