Where just about anything you did turned to crap?
I’m having one. I was going to start the taxes yesterday. Got TurboTax all loaded up, figured I’d start with mom’s stuff. Input what I had and something was missing. I knew she got at least four checks a month. I only had 1099s for two. None from the Social Security Administration. I know they have my information, because I gave it to the last year for her taxes. And her retirement benefits from dad’s Air Force account. He paid in for survivor’s benefits after he retired and she got a monthly check from them. Another place I have to call. [tearhair]
Brian was supposed to leave yesterday and spend the weekend at the property. This makes it easier for me to do what I have to do without interruption. But he didn’t go in the morning, he went over and worked on his little tractor over at his brother’s house. When he came home, he was tired, it was mid afternoon, so I said “just stay, go tomorrow”. He said “maybe we can watch “Marley and Me” tonight”. Sounded good to me.
I shut down the computer, go into the family room, and start up the Blu-Ray player and put the disk in. It’s probably around seven thirty. It wouldn’t play. The firmware needed to be upgraded. I finally figured out how to get it burned onto a CD-R (only, no other disk would have worked, thank goodness I had one) and then I had to figure out how to get the firmware to upgrade. My mind doesn’t seem to be as quick as it used to be. Anyway, I had it done by nine. Brian says “it will be too late by the time the movie is done, I don’t want to watch it tonight. Let’s watch it tomorrow night.”
So, it’s this morning. I decide I don’t want cereal for breakfast, I need nutrition because I’m going to do the taxes. Right? I think a breakfast burrito sounds pretty darned good. I ask him if he wants one. “Sure.” I made them, turned out yummy (just the frozen OreIda southern style hash browns, butter, onion, eggs and cheese, wrapped in a warmed tortilla). He said “I don’t think we should have the roast for dinner tonight, I don’t know when I’ll be home.” I was so looking forward to roast tonight, I took it out of the freezer Friday and put it in the fridge to defrost. Now I’d have to come up with something else.
He leaves. I piddle around. I ended up riding my exercise bicycle for about an hour since I missed last Monday. The console doesn’t work. I can’t tell what my heart rate is and it’s not showing me how long I’ve been on and I can’t set the resistance. I know how long I was on, because I was watching an episode of the Sopranos on DVD and the time is on that. When I was done, I figured I’d try to fix this damned thing once and for all. (With the knowledge that the taxes were waiting was hanging over my head.) I took it apart. After an hour or so of sweating and pushing it around so I could look at the bottom, it turned out that the problem is with the connection at the console. And I have no idea how to fix that. When I pulled the bike back down to flat, I lost control of it and it came down so quickly I couldn’t stabilize it and it ended up pushing me into the table. I’m going to have a humongous bruise on my hip/buttock this coming week.
But I did get the console working so I could see the time and my heart rate, but the resistance no longer works. Then I played with the cats a little bit, had some yogurt, then took a shower.
After I’d dried my hair in the sun, I came back to seriously work on the taxes. I opened up TurboTax and found my edition of Quick Books wouldn’t import because it’s the 2006 model. I’d have to manually input the information. Okay, no big whoop, there wasn’t much work done last year, it shouldn’t take me long to get that done. Then I started inputting the information from the 1099s that came with my cashing out all of mom’s investments and IRAs. Got that done, then couldn’t find my TD 1099. I’m thinking I shredded it. So, I go online to log in, can’t stinking get in. I try and I try and my password isn’t working. Then, my computer froze.
I rebooted and all of the icons on the desktop were gone. I rebooted again. They were still gone and the computer was running very slowly. I was on the phone with the Ameritrade guy, got my password reset, then shut down the computer completely. Restarted it, same thing. I was able to get into the help screen from the “start” button and I did a system restore to yesterday.
And when it was restored, all of my icons were back. I opened up TurboTax and all that information I’d input for us? It never existed. And I was sure I’d saved it.
I don’t think I want to work on the taxes anymore.
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