SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got my tax refund today! Along with my stimulus! (As Mo would say, I got stimulated.)

And, I even got to tow an offending vehicle out of my loading zone.

Things are looking up.

Progress?

Sen. Kennedy's office just called; they want me to write in a formal letter so they can proceed with my case.

Even though they're making me jump through yet another hoop, this is the first time anybody's referred to all this as "case." Maybe that's promising?

What a difference

...a week makes. This time last week, I had just begun the second performance test and I hadn't read the weekend section to the Boston Globe in quite some time.

Today, however, not only have I read the weekend section but I already have planned ahead to September, October, and November at the Kennedy Center, where I will be a frequent visitor this fall. (There is some good. stuff. Renee Fleming, Denyce Graves. You should come with.) Yes, the Captain and I are moving to Washington, per the Fabulous Plan B, and I am so excited. It is my time to be a kept woman and it's gonna rock.

In the meantime, I'll be packing up and getting ready to go. My firm has spoiled me not only with movers but with movers who will pack up my stuff. So the next several weeks will be full of all the fun things I never got to do in Boston, as well as regular phone calls to the IRS. And, per Munch's suggestion, to Sen. Kennedy. How can the IRS say no to the legislative lion (read: cancer patient)?