Well, I am super excited to announce that the taxes are 100% DONE!!! And already on their way to TaxLand! I will be getting a pretty penny back from TaxLand straight to my checking account which will be perfect for . . . bill paying.

Bill paying? How boring.

I know! I've never done anything big with my refunds. What do you do with yours? What do you suggest I do with mine? Ballpark $1000.

Any ideas?

Well, ya know how I thought I found all the necessary forms and documents to do my taxes?

Turns out those were all documents from 2005 instead of 2006! How does THAT happen???

I was back to the drawing board today. And I'm pleased to say (again) that I think I have all the correct paperwork now.

So, that's my big task for tomorrow. Then hopefully I'll be able to get them sent Monday, one day early. :)

Well, the good news is that I THINK I have found all the tax related documents that I need.

So, now I just need to get them started.

And finished.

Fun...

In no particular order...


Driving to Nappanee

Dinner with the girls Friday

A quiet and productive weekend (hopefully)

Visiting my parents and hearing about their trip to West Baden Springs

Hanging out with my brother and hearing about his trip to Maine

Going to Library

Not waking up with a headache

Having my taxes DONE

Hearing Dr. Bob at GCC

A good spring thunder storm

A cheaper cell phone bill

The church bells tolling on time again

Getting new tennis shoes

A road trip with roomie Sarah

Visiting roomie Becky in Nebraska

Continuing to re-do my guest room

Hiking at Potato Creek State Park

Hanging my new artwork above my bed

My bangs growing out

Celebrating Administrative Professionals Week (Apr 21-25, mark your calendar!)

The Blue Gold game, holla!

Sorting thru everything in the attic (hello, Spring Cleaning!)

Increasing my steps per day

May 3rd

Fridays by the Fountain

Printing photographs

Returning to my hobby of scrapbooking

Spending less money in April than I did in March

Figuring out a budget

Having flowers in my front yard

Getting back to my goals


What are YOU looking forward to?

6 Days left until the April 15 deadline.

I'm getting a bit worried.

I have my W-2 form.

But that's it.

Still need to find a whole lot of stuff...

Crap!

In the last month I’ve had 3 cell phones. I switched over to Sprint and got a new phone. Unfortunately it sucked. So I got another new one and made plans to send the old new one back. Sprint sent me a return package, and then it just took me awhile to do anything with it. I was busy and unmotivated and full of excuses.

Finally when I had 3 hours as a passenger in the car recently, I switched over all my phone numbers into the new phone (over 150; it took WAY too much time). And then I had my old new phone deactivated and the new new phone activated.

I let a couple few days go by and then decided I have to get this sent back!

So Monday night I deleted everything off the old new phone—all the pictures, all the text messages (sent and received), all the contacts in the address book… And of course I had to stop along the way and ponder over pictures I’ll never again see. I had to re-read messages that will forever be gone. Then yesterday throughout the day I packed everything up. Gathered up all the stuff they sent with the phone – the box, the charger, the instruction manual, a “Welcome to Sprint” booklet, etc. Put it all in the box, put the box in the big padded UPS envelope, and started to go about filling out the shipping form.

I went out to the UPS Store after work yesterday, had the store manager look over the form to make sure it was all correct, and off it went. Finally!

I went back home relieved to have it finally taken care of. I sorted thru some papers, made dinner, sat down to eat dinner, popped in an episode of Arrested Development, put my feet up on my ottoman and looked down and saw my old new phone sitting on my ottoman.

!!!!!!!

What?!? Wait, which phone IS that? Is that my old old phone? Is that my new phone? I knew which phone it was; I just couldn’t believe it was true.

I ran to the kitchen, found the UPS Store’ number in the phone book, and frantically called them up. “Hi, I was in there about an hour ago, dropping off a 2nd day shipment package. I forgot to include something in the package. Is there anything that can be done?” The manager remembered me and my package, “Was that going to Sprint?” “Yah.” “If you get here within 30 minutes, it’ll still be here.” “I’ll be there in 10!”

Ten minutes later, I was there, but he couldn’t find the package. “When did you say you were in?” “An hour ago.” “Hmmm, we had one pickup… Oh, here it is.” He cut a slit in the package, slipped in the phone, and taped it back up.

And off it went, this time for real with everything (hopefully) included!