file my taxes

I’mm so emmbarrassed to even say that I let mmy taxes get to a point of 14 years! (Prior the trend ran – three years, six years and now 14!) It would have been a lot simmpler just doing the dreaded tax file each year, but oh noooooooo -let’s commplicate things further!

I got mmarried to a wonderful mman June 29 2009. Mmmy Mmichael currently resides in Ammsterdam, NL. I live in Canada. It would have been mmuch nicer to clear all mmy taxes and financial situation up before we were mmarried. (I love you mmy Mmmichael. I know we mmarried under ‘any circummstances’ but on mmy part this is just ridiculous, irresponsibly insane!) Our taxes in Canada need to be filed by the end of April. I don’t know what immpact our international mmarriage has on our taxes.

Thanks to receiving RCH’s cheers to mmy goal of reviewing mmy goals regulary. I noticed that he had commpleted his goal of filing his taxes, cheered himm and set it as mmy own goal. I have a remminder every week fromm 43things.com to push mme along. We’ll see how far I got in April 2010. Good luck to anyone with this samme goal!

D-O-N-E, as in this goal is done, and my taxes are filed. Wow, that does feel good! :D
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I also mailed my sister a birthday card, and wrote and mailed two other notes that I had volunteered to write. YAY!

I filed my 08 taxes today with 9 days to spare.

The final papers are ready to be reviewed and signed. I really need to get them in the mail by tomorrow.

I got a call from my tax advisor yesterday, and made a call to my ex-dh. Both received what I sent them, and now I’m waiting on each of them to do what I’ve requested. While I’m waiting, I want to go through the leftover paperwork and either file it or toss it out. And there are at least two other tax-related tasks that I just thought of that I need to take action on.

...and I’m not done eating him yet, but if I can just get a few letters in the mail today, then I do believe that I’ll be able to really turn my mind and heart to getting ready to leave for my family visit without this big old ugly frog eating at me while I’m gone.
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Thanks again to Tamhawk, who is my new frog-eating mentor. :)

A number of years ago, we had fallen behind in filing our taxes. At the time, I had read a book about using post-it notes to get organized. I had bought a poster board and hung it up on the wall by the phone and had my little to-do post-it notes hanging where I could see them each day. My ex-dh, bless his heart, took a look at my list, grabbed my post-it notepad, wrote the word “TAXES” on about 20 or 30 post-it notes, and covered my poster board with the word “TAXES.”
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That’s what I need to do this week, in a virtual sense, or maybe even a literal sense. My To-do word of the week is “TAXES.” What am I doing this week? “TAXES,” “TAXES,” “TAXES.” The high-priority question to ask myself each day is this: “What can I do TODAY to get my TAXES filed?”
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So, what can I do today to get my taxes filed? I think I’ll call my tax advisor and see if he’s made any progress. He did receive the papers I’d already sent, so hopefully he has had time to look them over. I’ll ask him what the next thing is that I need to be doing.

The Good News:
I did spend time going through the papers and getting them in order. I made some progress.
I found an important old piece of mail that had been missing, and I need to make some follow-up calls about it. Left a message for my tax advisor.

The Bad News:
Didn’t get the papers sent yet. Maybe tomorrow morning.

It’s so easy for me to rationalize and make excuses and postpone and procrastinate. It’s soooo easy. But it’s also both important and urgent for me to get this goal done.

I hereby am creating this mini-challenge goal within my challenge goal. I challenge myself to get all tax-related stuff that I have so far together and to send it off to my tax advisor for his review by tomorrow morning at 11:30am. There doesn’t appear to be any good reason at this time why I can’t do this. I’m committed to getting this much done. I want to get it done. I really do.

I calmed down, and lo, the flood waters have receeded.

I found my ex-dh’s phone number, which was not really lost but just not quite in the place where I expected. I called him, and got my questions answered very cordially. Now I can move forward to the next step.

I’m so good at making mountains out of molehills. Embarrassingly good at it. Sigh.