Last Day of Taxes!

Hurray!  It is Friday and my last day of doing taxes for the masses of elderly I have been assisting!

It has been extremely interesting - I actually never have successfully done a return before!  I always had to rely on an accountant - so learned bunches!  Yeah, next year I will probably use an accountant again!  LOL

Five weeks ago, people were pleasant and the job fun.  But, as the time has worn on, people have become stressed and the pleasant people from a month ago are now aggressively obnoxious!  It is not my fault if they can not find the documentation they have lost and yet - I get both barrels of their shotgun!  And not just one person a day - perhaps more like one an hour on Monday down to one every 12 minutes on Thursday!  Gees!  So, the firm will be filing lots of extensions I imagine for these people.

On the sad side has been the deaths.  Partners finally finding themselves single after a lifetime together.  I could understand it more with the divorces, human relationships breakdown and nothing is left.  Death is more sudden and more crippling it seems.  And then to have someone I know die during the tax gathering process ... sigh ... I have known her since 1980, but really only later when her great-grand daughter took a shining to one of "my boys".  He would have been so much better off sticking with her!  Gees what a nightmare the one he married became! :(

So, hopefully no more exposure to laser toner fumes - which I am violently allergic to!  A chance to clear my lungs, calm down my high blood pressure, eat right and relax!

Next up: working on painting again.  I have been doodling late at night for about 30 minutes a day.  Working with different formulas of oil paints, trying to create something which will be toxic free and yet still paint a picture which will last.  Yet, watercolors are great but they are water based after all.  So my next week is planned out!

Also on the horizon is a trip to Colorado at some point to see my aging mean, evil, ex-stepmother.  She has gotten very frail and losing it mentally.  sigh .....  And a trip to Oregon to help a friend bury his mother.  She has been dead now about 7 years, riding in the trunk of this car.  First it was his health and then mine, but at long last we are both healthy so it will be a fun trip with lots of metal detecting along the way! :)

Yak more on Monday! :)