It Smiles, it Laughs

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I bought it February 25th. I remember the day very clearly, I picked it up, declaring "I am getting on this right now, I am not waiting until the end of March again to do them." I took it home and sat it in the center of the table. That is the prime location for things that need my attention. I walk pass, notice it, and know I need to take care of that item. I picked it up every night to make way for the supper items, it would smile at me innocently. After supper I placed it back in the prime location for the next day, it would grin at me. Don't think I did not notice it during the day. It sat there innocent enough in the morning, it was around lunch time when it started to act up. As I walked by it yelled out to me, "Hey Kim, let's get together!" "not right now" I would tell it, "I am busy." It began to get a bit more aggressive as the days passed and still no attention from me "Yo Kim, You and Me, Now!" "No Not right now, maybe later" I would say very matter of factIy. Then the really ornery behavior would begin, "Come on let's get this done" and he would trip me to slow me down. Now, that is just plain rude! Somehow this went on for months, some days it was just an evil laugh "bahahahaha". It started to haunt my dreams "Do your taxes, wahahaha". Now here I am bruised and beat up the day before taxes are due, April 17th. How did I get to this point? Why did I put it off for so long? No matter. It is time to put up or shut up. As I opened the software, I wondered how they had put so much evil in one nicely packaged, pretty colored package. I went into the home office, closed the door, and started the taxes about 9AM. At 7:45 I finished and it was time for the printing. I printing off ours and started on the older boys, then I got an error on my printer, "The ink pad has passed its live expectancy". I have never heard of this, what in the world is an ink pad? So I called hubby, who looked it up, seems we needed to to buy a new printer the manufacturer does not suggest replacing this part, replacing the printer instead. I had a melt down, how in the world was I going to get these taxes post marked by tomorrow if I cannot print anything out. EEEKKKK! All I can say is, sometimes, just sometimes, it pays to be a pack rat. I pulled out a 20 year old printer I had saved simply because I could not stand to throw a working printer away. I printed those tax returns out and popped them into the mail. They are done and will be postmarked by April 18th, Tax day in the USA. There, done for another year. Will I procrastinate again next year, maybe not as much, but yes, I am sure I most likely will. I just hate all the work that goes into taxes, I have done them for 32 years now for our family and I am sure it is not going to get better. Oh sure, We have had many many promises by many, many politicians about post card sized tax returns, but nobody has followed though and I do not think they ever will. I am off to burn the box now, it will give me some satisfaction. Did you get your taxes done on time? Was it frustrating? I hope that you all got your taxes done on time. Have a beautiful day!