for a very important date ...
(
ugh)
the dreaded
April 15th approaches ...
(
which also happens to be David's birthday - coincidence? I think being born on a day that makes 309,000 Americans tremble is probably not a lucky thing)
I just realized (
yes, I am opening my tax documents on April 12th - me bad) that some stores that sent me MISC-1099's pay me through Paypal and so are also included in my 1099K - I hope it doesn't make me look fishy when the IRS does their tallying (
although I guess they have thought this all through) ...
note to self - do not do anything that will add to the fishiness of this return like the year I only had a red marker handy and used that or the year I left a mocha-scented stain in the shape of Elvis Costello in the upper right hand corner
and hubs and I are going to a customer's (
of his that I have never met) house for dinner this weekend which is also stressful. I shook loose some Emily Post-style etiquette from the deeper recesses of my brain today and called his customer's wife to see if we could bring anything and she said
"
just bring whatever you would want us to bring if we came to your house"
which is so
not something to tell me because now I am thinking either a new Nook cover (which they may or may not need and I may or may not be able to get to take home with me at the end of the night) or George Clooney, lightly drizzled with maple syrup.
Although I wasted some time deciding whether they'd dig a fabric floral or a smaller but more maneuverable magnetic leather cover in the end I decided it best to play the professional wife of man going to customer's house here and bring
wine which I have to admit I know next to nothing about -
yes, I know you probably thought I did, but I only know wine corks- as in where they come from, how they are produced and that the red ones have stains that are very, very hard to work with
and since the kinds I tend to purchase have a handle on top of the box so you can more easily lift it onto the sofa beside you to most easily snuggle with it during particularly intense Celebrity Apprentice episodes - not that I do this ...
(
Celebrity Apprentice is my reality show obsession this season - I am without a favorite player right now though - maybe Paul, Sr)
and I always ignore anything with a domesticated animal on the label or with the kind of ornate curling fonts you see in funeral programs - this does not leave me many options - if anyone has a suggestion please let me know, with an emphasis on
please.
In the middle of this my nephew called and asked me if I had won the internet yet (
is everything a game to this under 36" crowd?) -
and actually looking at my estimated (
I should say guess-timated at this point) net income figures I am not so much in a winning position as loitering somewhere around St. James Place.
But at least I'm on the board and in the game - I have passed GO and did not go directly to jail ...
yet ... which reminds me - I have to get back to my taxes - have an amazing weekend everyone
(
yes, I realize it is only Thursday, but tomorrow night I will be delivering George Clooney that bottle of wine).
I hope your tax returns are stamped and sent and you are snuggled on the sofa with a six pack of red watching Celebrity Apprentice - also let me know which player you are most annoyed with .... xo all
* alice print by the amazing Anne-Julie Aubrey of the
Nebulous Kingdom and yes she has a
locket or
two
