It’s the 15th. Tax day. Emily’s birthday. Friend Barb’s birthday. Lots going on. Have had several texts this morning. People panic because they have again forgotten what happens every 4/15. Amazing.
I have nine tax returns to process and a couple hundred extensions. The extensions have become very easy with the advent of e-filing, so I will get them done quickly. Also, a few years back the state of CA did away with the extension requirement. So now only one per taxpayer.
Marika is still asleep. She is headed back to Hawaii tomorrow. Says she is coming back soon though I hardly believe it. She is enjoying her life there too much. And she claims it’s not the new boyfriend she met there. It’s the boyfriend, I think all of us adults know that.
Btw, I want to mention something, off topic from the usual. The blog is hosted by Bluehost. Supposedly the best in the world. If that were true, all others must be truly egregious in order to be worse than what I put up with. Just saying. If you decide to blog, avoid Bluehost. Or risk losing all your data. Every once in awhile. I hate them.
I am off to work. We will chat soon. Maybe before we take Emily out dinner tonight.
The 15th, at work, pretty much sucks. I have several returns to finish. I know in advance there will be some that wait till later. But I will try.
I did not arrive any earlier than usual. Why should I? No fun. I have 9 returns to finish for a client. I want them done today. But, I know there will be competing tax returns that drop in and stop me from completing my goal. Problem with the nine return client is the four business entities that feed into the five individuals. So I must finish the four to complete the five and that is a tall order. Today is my lovely brides birthday so I MUST leave the office by 6. Also a factor in getting all done today.
So today was an awful day. Too many phone calls, too many visitors, just a too many day. I did not meet my goal on the nine returns but I finished the four business returns. So I can finish the other five tomorrow. Though I want to go skiing in the morning. And I have to be up at 5am to take the kid to the airport. But that’s tomorrow. I did do estimated payments on the five so my client came and picked up the 4 and the payment coupons. But that was long after I left. Cara stayed and took care of the paperwork with our client.
Usually, this year is same, I reach the must leave point and just drop what I am working on and go. This year I had not finished all the extensions by 6pm when I left. Just figured I would do them online later, after the birthday dinner. When I was drunk and happy. Which I did. Nowadays it’s easy to login to the office server and do just that. Some tech is good.
On the way home I picked up Emily’s cake. Ice cream cake. Tradition for us, covered with mini ice cream scoops, melon baller size. One for each year. She had a lot of balls. This is the first cake from the Baskin Robbins location nearest us. There is a learning curve for them on our cake style. Unfortunately, the balls in this first try were huge and it hardly fit in the box. I will have to force her to do it my way.
Got home, cake to freezer. Is the the Auburn Ale House for cocktails and dinner. A beautiful evening and dinner was great. Emily had the fried chicken which is a fave. And an old fashion, fave of faves. Birthday dinner was great.
Came home and had ….cake, of course. Balls too big but that does not ruin the ice cream. We only used 11 candles cuz that’s all we had.
So we tried to watch TV but we are to full and drunk and tired so we all went to bed. Except me, I stayed up another hour and finished extensions. Then to bed