taxing times

[fflo]

(1) Meant to start my taxes this past weekend, but found all kinds of other chores to attend to instead.

(2) Just got new tax assessment on house from city. Not sure when the house payment will jump, but my estimate is that it'll jump about $233.00/mo. (The effect of the previous owner's having been in the house for 20 years.)

(3) Most taxing of all are issues not involving taxes (directly).

Still debating whether to talk more of (3) openly or in "friends-only" entries.

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(1) Me too.
(3) Actually, me too also, and similarly debating. Most likely not going to talk about it though, due to the presence on LJ of the person causing the problems and the fact that discussing my problems with said person on LJ feels problematic regardless of whether I filter em out of the tries or include em and regardless of how many other people I filter out. Unfortunately, it also feels problematic to even discuss the problems one on one with the person I'm having them with, since said problems basically add up to, "You're too miserable all the time and your misery is making all my conversations with you miserable!" and the minute I start complaining about it, such complaints become an additional justification for more misery.

Actually, even misery itself would not be that much of a problem; I just need it to have rational explanations. For example, "I'm miserable because my girlfriend murdered my dog" would elicit plenty of sympathy from me. But "I'm miserable because I'm convinced I'm ugly no matter how many beauty contests I win and no matter how much I proclaim beauty standards to be subjective I still feel that I am somehow objectively ugly by all possible beauty standards" and also "I'm miserable because I'm convinced I'm evil even though I can't actually name any evil acts I've committed except accidents but I'm convinced that my body is just inherently evil whether I act upon it or not and its mere existence is an evil" doesn't really go over well with me.