Just Jen

Ouch.

This is the wonderful gift that someone left for me in the parking lot at my office on Friday. I only wish they had left a card so I would know who to thank. Not only did they scrape down the side of my car and bust out the tail light, but the bulb is gone - not just broken off in the socket - removed without a trace. So to recap, some incredibly thoughtful, sensitive person of obvious moral character hit my car and took off without leaving a note, but only after they helped themselves to the exposed tail light bulb. Nice.
I have to say, though that the damage could have been much worse, and it is, after all, just a car.

Taxes

I love having my own business. I HATE doing the taxes. This is the view I had this evening - a sea of receipts from the past year. And that's not all of them. There are a few that have gone MIA. I usually start out the year vowing to be more organized and prepared so I don't have to devote hours and hours when it comes time to do taxes at the end, but every year I fall off the wagon, oh I'd say long about February or so. My receipts for this year are already a mess. I work best when I have a deadline, and April 15th is fast approaching... We normally do them online ourselves, but that's risky with two very right-brained, math deficient people. So this year we have decided to turn it all over to the hands of a seasoned professional and take every possible deduction he can dream up. Then it'll all be over until next year - whew!