...from myself! Argh. I don't consider myself to be a procrastinator, but maybe that's part of my problem. As you may know, I run my own business -- I'm a freelance journalist. That means I get to write off a bunch of fun stuff like books and office supplies and computer things. The only catch -- I have to keep receipts for all this stuff and enter it into Quicken in some kind of reasonable fashion.
Here's where things get tough. Okay, I am a mom. And I am a knitter. And a scrapbooker. And that means I have like 1,00,000 things I'd rather be doing at any given moment, other than sitting at my computer and entering in piles of receipts. All last year I mindlessly shoved receipts into a file folder, and told myself I'd get to it "soon."
Needless to say, that didn't happen.
Needless to say, it's now 2006 and my dear hubby is going to want to schedule our tax appointment soon (yes, soon -- that's what kind of guy he is -- and that's one of the reasons I married him!).
Needless to say I better get my rear in gear and get this stuff entered. So that's what I'm doing today. Fun. Fun. Fun. NOT. But I'm concentrating on how great I will feel when I cross this particularly nasty item off my to-do list.
What are you going to do today that you'd rather not?
Ack...I tried to start our taxes two weekends ago only to find that I do not have on hand one rather important 1099 form. I am *not* a particularly organized person, but I'm rather religious about putting all tax-related mail in ONE SPOT every year as it comes in so that I have it when I need it. And I did that this year, too. Only we got a KITTEN this year, right around the same time the tax forms started coming in, and for some reason, the kitten decided she liked that tax form spot in my office, and she'd sit on the stack of envelopes, and I'd look at her and think "How CUTE!" until one day I noticed that she managed to knock one of them down right next to the wastebasket below. ACK! Moved the pile of envelopes real fast and prayed none had already fallen INTO the basket without me noticing. :::sigh::: Still hoping to find the missing one around somewhere, lest I have to make a call and ask for a duplicate....
Posted by: Lisa | February 21, 2006 at 07:06 PM
mine is
unfortunately
very similiar
to yours...
baaaahhh...
i hate reciepts.
Posted by: gkgirl | February 22, 2006 at 08:29 AM
YUCK! Taxes....bleck. It will feel good to get it off your tax list. I have to do paperwork and call parents with bad reports about their children, and I would rather not. I abhor this task (the calling with the bad news).
Posted by: Ragan | February 22, 2006 at 02:44 PM