The Happy Ending

6 pm Alright. The music has stopped. ...Now I can put on my own! As I begin Fernando's assessment...

6:09 Oh wait! My Haiti donations would go onto next year. ...I'm getting my work fiscal year mixed up with the govt's fiscal year.

Is someone playing basketball in the hall??

6:14 Okay, charity fixed. And the grand result... (drum roll please)

We're in the black! That's weird. Unexpected this is.

6:22 Corrected a wee snafu re. T5...

6:28 Alright, let's send these puppies off.

6:45 Ahhh. No more neighbour noises. No more tax files. No money owed. Enjoy rest of day off.

Tax Drama Day 2: boyz and noise

I'm trying to fill in my taxes but one of the boys upstairs is blasting his hip hop music. I don't generally mind the noise by the boys, but it's a wee bit DISTRACTING right now. "You darn kids!"

Watching The Doctors!

Aha! This "ahems" I still have will be called a "chronic cough" if it lasts over 8 weeks, and it's very common. Well I'm not at 8 weeks yet.

I think I'm at risk of becoming addicted to The Doctors (and sub-addicted to Dr Oz, who I watch on commercials from The Doctors.) It's given me a reason to get up by 3 PM!

Today on The Doctors they're doing C Words. Next up: Cavities!

getting nostalgic

Last year I was doing my taxes while cat sitting. And I apparently used the word "poopy", in relation to tax paying, back then too.

Friday, May 1, 2009

chores

I'm doing my taxes late for the first time in years. I'm usually pretty good, but I just had money-inertia this month. Now I'm looking up my McGill files to see if I had any tuition or pay, and I did. Oh sigh... more things to enter. Poopy. At least the tuition should help out. Didn't realize I'd paid any in 08.
...

At least I can watch Dynasty while doing taxes.

And here's a quote from 2006 where you can see my frustration with Quicktax (finally figured out it was UFile I used last year):

" I've been working on my and Ben's taxes today. But let's not talk about Evil Tax Software. Because it's evil. "

the thrilling drama continues

4 more receipts recovered! I'm just gonna go for it now. Woo!

Or probably I should go to bed. Poopy. :-(

yay!

I found my old charity receipts! You get more back if you lump your charity receipts together every few years (at least, for me, because the amount I give isn't huge), so I haven't done them the last few years. And every April I think "I should find those old receipts and do them this year" and every year I'm too mehhhh and can't be bothered. But I finally did it! (Somewhere during my MA all my paperwork went to pot. I kept everything, I did my taxes, I paid my bills... but nothing got organized or thrown out.)

Now the only remaining mystery is where are the receipts for my Haiti donations... maybe I got email receipts for those. And so the search continues...

moneymoneymoneymooooneeeey!

Taaaax time. The way I get through tax time is to focus on the positive--all the things my taxes pay for, that I'm glad they pay for. I'll need that this year, because I'm back to paying them! Gone are my heady school days of receiving money. Now I have to pay back My Debt to Society for a dirt cheap education.

It's alright, I'm ready. Bring it! Bring it tax software!

The real problem is I can't remember which site I used last year. I tried a new one and liked it waaay better than the one I used to use--much clearer. But which was it?? Must investigate...