Lifestyles of the poor and nameless

Hip hip hooray! It's Friday. Was it just me or did this week FLY by?. It didn't seem to be flying when I was at my desk praying to be at home, but in retrospect, things moved quickly. I wish there was a way to slow down the weekend.

It's April 15. Did you do your taxes? I've been struggling with them for weeks and now the 11th hour has arrived. I finally thought I finished them last night, only to realize that I might have used the wrong form. By the way, don't ever move in the middle of the year...and if you do, don't earn any money until the next year has started. My tax woes were compounded by the fact that I had to file federal, PA AND NY tax. Trying to figure out how to offset the money I earned and paid PA tax on was nothing short of nightmarish. I did it all myself, and somehow it seems like I'm entitled to refunds. That just doesn't seem right. So if I disappear for a while, it could mean that the I.R.S. got me.

My favorite part of doing the taxes was mailing them off. I didn't have any pre-printed IRS envelopes and the odd size of the W-2s prevent the forms from fitting in a regular A10 envelope. So I made my own envelope out of oversized paper and I taped it together. I hope they don't think it's a letter bomb or something....it did look pretty bootleg.