married, filing jointly

so yesterday was designated as mine and jonathan's "tax day". oh, the fun! being my first year out in the world with daddy not doing my taxes (for the two times that has been needed in my life), i was a tiny bit more involved. though, of course, jonathan pretty much did my taxes for me :). i'm a lucky girl.

i spent the afternoon running errands to the grocery store, home depot, etc. in the rain. i hate running errands in the rain. when i finally got things unloaded and settled in, i sat down and figured out jonathan's mileage he put in for church business write offs and such. i had to look up about a bajillion places and do some investigative measures because most of the time he just listed "church to starbucks", "home to rudy's house", "church to funeral home in dobson". in the end, it didn't matter because the total mileage of like 3,000 didn't exceed some kind of automatic deduction of some sort. i don't get taxes.

then, i had the pleasure of shredding a grocery bag full of papers. i know...oh, the fun! i had to work in about 20 minute sessions because the thing would get overheated and refuse to do its job for about 45 minutes until it cooled off. i don't think its aware thats not how it works in the real world. its lucky i showed it some grace because i was getting pretty aggravated with it.

so a grocery bag size of paper ended up shredding into two giant trashbags full of shreds. i'm still amazed at that.

the amount of taxes we had due was all over the place...from a couple thousand to a couple hundred, a thousand, and finally we ended at owing a very nice number: $74. that was about the same we owed turbo tax for using their software for the day. yay for us! april 15th, we are not afraid (but we're crossing our fingers we did it right!).