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We went to my sister's house tonight for dinner and to get our taxes done.  Keeping up with our new found eating habits they made a delicious salad and soup.   Ben actually did most of the cooking.  It was a good time with a good meal. While my sister did our taxes I played with their adorable puppy and waited to hear the actual figure of how much we were going to owe.  Turned out, I worried for nothing.  We're actually going to be getting a return.  To answer Alli's question from yesterday, you do not have to file Married.  However, most people do because you tend to get a better result.  For example, we had each filed individually Dave would not have been able to deduct the interest from his student loans but because we were filing together, we were both able to and apparently I have enough taken out of mine to cover the both of us.  

On a totally unrelated note, Dave and I began a Couch to 5K program.  Basically today involved walking for 5 minutes to warm up then alternating between running and walking for just over 20 minutes.  We'd run for one minute, walk for a minute and a half, and run again for a minute.  We repeated this until 8 times.  Running for a total of 8 minutes to today.   This week we will do this two more times before bumping the running up to a minute and a half and only walking for a minute.  After about 9-10 weeks, we will be able to run a 5K.  Of course, we may be incredibly slow but we can then work to just pick up the pace.  My sister in law is doing this as well.  My brother in law was always a runner.  Hopefully, by the end of May or the beginning of June we might actually be able to run a 5K though I'm not about to sign up for one anytime soon.  The best part of this program is the iphone app that walks you through it.  It works wonderfully with whichever playlist you want and the woman who talks is all British.  

So overall a good, productive day.