Know what's worse than doing your taxes once? Doing them twice ( Read more... )

This has been a pretty darned sucky day. Bandaged my toe so I could go to work this morning, it bleed through the bandage (ugh). Got home to take care of it, and the gauze was stuck in the nailbed? Whatever you call the flesh that your nail used to cover. Soaked it 10 minutes, couldn't get it off. Soaked another 10 minutes, still stuck. Soaked 30 ( Read more... )

I did my taxes this morning. Usually I owe money, so there's never any drive to do it, and so most years it lurks over my head for months. I always say I'm going to do it, then never do until the last minute. It's always more dread and putting it off than work to actually get it done, so I kick myself for not just doing it. This year I did it nice ( Read more... )

This was going to be a post about my taxes. Weeks, months!, of stressing out about doing them, and it took me maybe 20 minutes total to get them done. My taxes are simple and straightforward because my life is simple... which made me think of a quote.

There was a simple man who had a simple wife (something something) had a simple life.My mother ( Read more... )

- I got FFXIV installed. I had to use my work email address, which I really, really did not want to do, but the game is so pretty I can nearly forgive that. After playing WoW for so long, a pretty game makes me want to cry. I spent almost a half-hour customizing my character just right. Which is something of a joke -- which "Thistle" do I mean at ( Read more... )

This might be the most specific tip I've ever posted. My apartment came with vertical blinds. I love them! Unlike the horizontal one, they don't collect tons of dust. Then they started falling out. How does the little tab break? I have no idea. Is it my fault? It might be? (Sometimes I slide them open without turning them open first.) Since I ( Read more... )

I buckled down and did my taxes today. On one hand, it wasn't as bad as last year. Last year I owed $600 federal and $250 state. This year I owed $400 federal and got back $100 state (but the Turbotax fees were $60, so...). I swear, last year Turbotax was free for federal and they just charged you for state. Oh well, at least it's done now... ( Read more... )