Doing the "Happy Dance"...or the Check is in the Mail!





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I'm a happy woman this morning!

Finally...my income tax return is done

and the checks (state and federal)

are in the mail!

This is a yearly ordeal for me.

Although I pay someone to do the return for me,

I still have to locate and organize all

the paperwork needed to do it.

Every year I promise myself

I'm going to find a better method

(i.e. better than just throwing everything

into a file in my desk)

in which to keep track of everything.

Here it is April and I've yet to do anything

to make next year's job easier.

But...I'm done for this year!

And, although it's painful to write those checks,

I remind myself,

the very fact that I have to write them

means I had income this year.

And that, is always a good thing!

I Can't Put It Off Any Longer...

The time draws near...

For the past several weeks, every time I go into the post office,

I've been assaulted/reminded...

I dread this every year.

Yesterday, I finally made a start.

The crazy thing is that I don't even do my own taxes.

I take my paperwork and have someone else do it for me.

But, still it always feels like a monumental effort.

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It could be worse.

My job is to collect all those little bits of paperwork

that have accumulated over the past year,

and organize them into some sort of meaningful

justification for a deduction.


I'm probably a tax preparer dream client because I'm

always totally organized when I arrive, but I still have

that nagging fear...

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I'm determined today's the day I get it all finished and make the appointment, hopefully for one day next week, and put the mess behind me.

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Then I'm going to treat myself to something nice.
Aren't these lovely?