February 10, 2003
Who knew doing taxes could be fun?
I did my taxes tonight online. If you go here, you can use TurboTax to fill out and file your returns online for free. It's insanely cool. I'm never ever doing paper forms again. It asked me a bunch of questions, I fed it numbers, and boom. Tax return done. And I had a fairly complicated return this year--at least, complicated for me. I didn't have to worry about tax law or how to count things, it just asked about my 1099s and 1098s and Schedule C and blah blah blah. I just gave it my numbers and it did everything else. It was marvelous. I'm getting a kick ass refund, plus I got to support my ex-employer's biggest rival to boot. Life is good.
Actual size
"Who's a liddle fear demon?"
This was one of the first Buffy episodes I ever saw back when it originally aired, and I about fell out of my chair laughing.
Edited to also add: I just came back from a run to the corner convenience store, and came back with two items:
1. A jumbo economy overnight Mother-Nature-Really-Hates-Your-Ass sized package of Always With Wings
2. A pint of Ben & Jerry's Super Fudge Chunk.
I think nothing more needs be said about my physical and emotional states right at this moment.
At the top of my list...
...of things to smile about on a cold and snowy Monday morning: Watching Rumpus stretch his full length up the bedroom window (which has gotten substantial--my kitten's getting huge!) to bat frantically at snowflakes falling past the window, while Pooka stays warm on the bed and watches him mockingly.
