In which there are storms in the night

[rolanni]

The contractor has been, the contractor has wrought, and the contractor has gone away again to that place where contractors go to rest from work well-done, and curses well-said.  All hail, the contractor.

Today, there are chores in the morning, and travel in the afternoon.  We have tickets for Varekai this evening, which I am looking forward to with much excitement -- even, perhaps, excitement unseemly in a woman of my years.  I've been wanting to see Cirque du Soleil live for YEARS.

Tomorrow, it's back to writing and sorting.  I think I may take an hour or two every morning for the next hundred years or so to go through shelves and drawers and closets and set aside those things that we don't need, and simply have because we have them.

For those following our continuing adventures with the ACA, aka "Obamacare" -- it transpires that the clearing authority needed not only proof of our IDs, but Proof of 2014's income (yes, we are still in 2014; I checked several calendars, just in case mine was malfunctioning).  So, I spent an evening when I should have been writing doing a Profit and Loss for the year thus far, and listing such projects as I hope to see payment far, going forward into the year.

Now, one of the more interesting things is to transpire on this front is that the royalty payment we received earlier in the week has put us very close to my estimated income for the entire year of 2014.  So, in my abundant spare time I'm going to have to get with the ACA and figure out a new insurance premium.  Which raises the question of how the ACA accounts income -- by quarter or by full year.  I fear it will be annually, and that we'll find ourselves playing catchup for the subsidies we did not "deserve," though we needed them, at the beginning of the year.

Well. It'll be fun.

In other news, we had a ripping thunderstorm come through last night, all the flowers in the meadow next door are flattened right to the ground this morning, and fog is rising out of the trees.

Comments

[mama-abbie.livejournal.com]

Hooray for Cirque du Soleil live! There is so much more going on during the performance than is shown on the videos. Get there early and enjoy the hi-jinks of the clowns warming up the audience.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip!

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

You remind me how glad we are to have graduated to Medicare.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Steve gets to do Medicare next year. I'm still gonna be coping with the ACA for a couple years.

[caoilfhionn.livejournal.com]

Thank you for talking about your ACA experiences! I am also self-employed, and while I have somehow avoided a lot of the documentation problems (probably because my income is much more predictable than anything involving royalties, or because my state left me to fend for myself on the federal Marketplace), I, too, have to report an increase in income midyear. In my corner of the world, this seems to involve reapplying for coverage entirely, and I am terrified that I will screw things up. So I truly appreciate that you're mapping out bits of the territory and sharing as you go!

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

All hail, the contractor

who has also been paid no doubt... grin

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

*echoes* All hail, the contractor!

And the circus tickets!

On the subject of contractors...

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

I'm not certain whether this will get past Eljay's brain-dead spam filter. Apologies if it doesn't.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

I think subsidies are by year. Still, they are delivered with the 2014 taxes in 2015, yes? Or the deficit billed then? How it works is still a mystery.