I just ran - I ran all night and day
Apr. 16th, 2008 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyYesterday I was a wired accountant extraordinaire (added to windows' dictionary because Gates has never heard of Webster).
EDIT: Important News in case you didn't get a copy of the mail out from the IRS a short while back.
For all of yesterday I was still running on 1.5 hours of sleep, a pack of cigarettes, a little semblance of food around noon, and a lot of caffeine. I made it to the 8:45 teacher meeting early at 8:30. In all my sleep-deprived mind I kept thinking that class started at 9:45 despite the fact that throughout this entire semester the class has been scheduled for 9:30. I bought a muffin and cappuccino for breakfast and researched printer information in the computer lab for the next hour while waiting for class to begin. I showed up to class right on time at 9:45 - except that I was 15 minutes late and didn't realize my mistake until walking in sheepishly. 15 minutes early to meeting and 15 minutes late to class - go figure.
Class ended and I ran to purchase the printer. Then I ran to get lunch for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_paco, who was covering my afternoon shift for me, and for my coworker that I wanted to buy lunch for since she was kind enough to buy lunch for me on a couple of occasions. Side note: I really need to go by the bank and have cash in my purse again for those situations.
Back at home I managed to get the new printer installed and then spend the next couple of hours finalizing company accounts and forms. Fortuitously, our family CPA who is also a long-time family friend had a cancellation, so mom got us an appointment for between 5-5:30pm. I quickly raced to get everything finalized and printed off and still had do a few forms by hand in the car on the way there. We finally showed up around 6 after battling traffic, but that worked out perfectly for the CPA friend who was still trying to finish up with another client. Mom managed to get one set of grandparents taken care of as well as her own taxes and we made it back home by 10pm. Then I raced to file my other grandmother's, my sister's and my taxes online. At 11:15pm we jumped into the car to head to the post office hub to drop off the company taxes. H&R block wanted to charge an arm and a leg (>$500) just to file electronically for us the paperwork that I already had filled out. Fuck that shit. Luckily the car line for IRS tax drop off was pretty quick and I made it back home by 11:45.
With 15 minutes to spare. That was close.
My leg was cramping up, I had given up my first yawn while in the car line at the post office, and my allergies were about to kick in. I took a Benadryl (which knocks me out cold every time), some ibuprofen, and 1/2 a valium. I was *this* close to sleeping through my alarm this morning, but instead I managed to snooze for just a teeny bit longer and still made it to work on time despite a pit stop by McD's for breakfast and coffee.
Then damn if the phone lines at work started screwing up again. Luckily this time it only lasted about an hour.
Tonight - beers and good company. Tomorrow - I'm fucking sleeping in.
EDIT: Important News in case you didn't get a copy of the mail out from the IRS a short while back.
For all of yesterday I was still running on 1.5 hours of sleep, a pack of cigarettes, a little semblance of food around noon, and a lot of caffeine. I made it to the 8:45 teacher meeting early at 8:30. In all my sleep-deprived mind I kept thinking that class started at 9:45 despite the fact that throughout this entire semester the class has been scheduled for 9:30. I bought a muffin and cappuccino for breakfast and researched printer information in the computer lab for the next hour while waiting for class to begin. I showed up to class right on time at 9:45 - except that I was 15 minutes late and didn't realize my mistake until walking in sheepishly. 15 minutes early to meeting and 15 minutes late to class - go figure.
Class ended and I ran to purchase the printer. Then I ran to get lunch for
the_paco, who was covering my afternoon shift for me, and for my coworker that I wanted to buy lunch for since she was kind enough to buy lunch for me on a couple of occasions. Side note: I really need to go by the bank and have cash in my purse again for those situations.Back at home I managed to get the new printer installed and then spend the next couple of hours finalizing company accounts and forms. Fortuitously, our family CPA who is also a long-time family friend had a cancellation, so mom got us an appointment for between 5-5:30pm. I quickly raced to get everything finalized and printed off and still had do a few forms by hand in the car on the way there. We finally showed up around 6 after battling traffic, but that worked out perfectly for the CPA friend who was still trying to finish up with another client. Mom managed to get one set of grandparents taken care of as well as her own taxes and we made it back home by 10pm. Then I raced to file my other grandmother's, my sister's and my taxes online. At 11:15pm we jumped into the car to head to the post office hub to drop off the company taxes. H&R block wanted to charge an arm and a leg (>$500) just to file electronically for us the paperwork that I already had filled out. Fuck that shit. Luckily the car line for IRS tax drop off was pretty quick and I made it back home by 11:45.
With 15 minutes to spare. That was close.
My leg was cramping up, I had given up my first yawn while in the car line at the post office, and my allergies were about to kick in. I took a Benadryl (which knocks me out cold every time), some ibuprofen, and 1/2 a valium. I was *this* close to sleeping through my alarm this morning, but instead I managed to snooze for just a teeny bit longer and still made it to work on time despite a pit stop by McD's for breakfast and coffee.
Then damn if the phone lines at work started screwing up again. Luckily this time it only lasted about an hour.
Tonight - beers and good company. Tomorrow - I'm fucking sleeping in.
