Tuesday July 24, 2012 Happy Birthday Bella

Tuesday July 24/12 update

Happy 38^th birthday to my sweetheart (she made a U-turn at 50).  Now she can start saving all her receipts too to get back 50% of the 12% IVA tax here.   6% will be a handy refund (up to $1500) when we submit all those receipts when we turn 65.

Bella was ill all night so I ran to the local Farmacia for some Imodium.  The pharmacist asked me how many I wanted and I said 20.  She actually gave me a package of 20 and the cost was 90 cents!  

Bella seems to be on the mend although she is not too spry she has decided on a pizza Birthday dinner as long as we go by taxi.  At least if she can’t eat it then she can bring it home.

Good news for us today because our maid had agreed to get an RUC and has now done so.  Because she makes under $27,000 per year she will pay no income tax, but she must pay the 12% IVA tax for her services rendered.  We have increased her pay accordingly and everyone is now happy and dealing above-board. 

I spent most of the afternoon making appropriate invoices for Rosa, for ourselves and generic ones for other customers.  Bella has promised to go make her a bunch of copies on Thursday.

I have made the dreaded $2 appointment with the Coopera dentist in San Joaquin for Thursday afternoon for minor repairs.  It is with trepidation that we make calls in Spanish but we are getting more confident as we learn more of the language and can understand most of the responses.  It is much more difficult to do on the phone as opposed to in person.
My apologies for the colour of the background at times in these blogs.   If I copy and paste something it does keep the normal background like the rest, it has a white background with the white lettering, so all you see is a large blank when it is uploaded.    My only option is to re-do the entire background in a different color....

Sorry, no pics today.   That was today’s excitement.    Hugs to all.