Counting beans

[pbray]

Finally finished organizing all my writing related receipts and entering my expenses from 2006 into my handy dandy spreadsheet. I do this once a year, and it takes about half a day. Briefly I considered that it would be less effort if I simply kept up with it during the year, and then I laughed.

Showing my age, I went out today and bought two CDs that I want to load onto my iPod. I know I could buy and download them via iTunes but somehow that isn't as satisfying as having the CD in my hands.

Now it's time to fire up TurboTax and start punching in the numbers. Then cringe & wait. I alternate between years where I owe the government and years where the government owes me. Hoping for a refund check this time, but not really expecting it.

ETA: w00t! Uncle Sam owes Me!

Comments

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

And I just DON'T UNDERSTAND it. I don't. I spent ALL DAY Sunday working on my taxes. I have ... piles. I have 6 neatly organized piles, and all the check stubs are correlated with the royalty statements for the publisher, which took for-fricking-ever, but I haven't even gotten CLOSE to entering any information anywhere.

Maybe part of the problem is my publisher sends me three checks/statements a month, of wildly differing format and structure as they play around with various financial packages, and you get one neatly summarized statement from your agent at the end of the year.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

It's your genes. You're simply not designed for dull, repetitive tasks that require a high degree of organizational skills.