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Crunch time

You have until April 18th to file your tax return this year. YAY, right? I mean, it not only gives taxpayers an extra few days to file, it also gives tax preparers a few extra days to get the work out.

I am SO grateful for this fact as I work for my parents in their tax preparation business. (But, hey, if you bring your work in to us now… you’re still going to be put on extension at this point. We’re not miracle workers.) I’m pretty mentally drained by the end of the day with the work and the extra days DO take a liiiiiittle strain off us right now.

However, it added stress for me on another side.

I am once again Chairperson of my local Aggie Muster. Local meaning Nashville. I’m in Texas. Muster is April 21st.

Can you say mad dash home to be there and rested for Muster?

Good bye tax seasonI rely on the six days between April 15th and April 21st to do all my final Muster planning. This year? I don’t HAVE that. The 19th is my travel day home, and the 20th will be rest and double checking the check list I need to finish before then. During tax season. When my want to even open my laptop at the end of the day is at about a 2 on a scale of 1 – 10.

On top of THAT, Easter is the next weekend. Which means I won’t be having Easter with my brother’s family as we’ve done the last five years. Because it would be silly to go to Nashville and then turn around and come back to Texas two days later. So this will be my first Easter in Nashville.

On top of Muster.

On top of Tax Day.

Am I stressed out? Gettin’ there!

Am I going to pull it all off?  Without a doubt.

Will I drive other people crazy in the mean time?  Definitely. But it’ll all be worth it in the end.

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So long April Fool’s Day

I’m not a fan of April Fools Day. If I really think about it… I never have been. Its like Angela England tweeted earlier, “Thank goodness April Fool’s Day is over- I can’t stand not being able to take my friends’ words at face value!”

And that’s exactly it. I don’t like not trusting the people I’m supposed to be able to trust!

I’d like to say this is why I didn’t make a blog post yesterday. It would actually be a really good excuse! However, I was just too darn busy all day to write a post, and once I settled down with time to write… I was too tuckered out to do it.

Back to the subject at hand, though.

I do get seriously amused by the various April Fools Pranks pulled by companies and web-sites. Google never ceases to amuse me every April 1st. (Seriously, though, what a brilliant way to fight obesity from sitting at a computer all day!) And I have to admit, Starbucks hit home this year since I’ve ironically been craving a Skinny Vanilla Latte from there for days. And I really wish I’d screen captured Flickr changing their logo for a day to add an “E.” I’m still snickering at the number of people who took it seriously. (Do a Flickr search for the logo and see several people asking what happened with it.)

However, it can get frustrating and hurtful sometimes when pranks get out of hand. I watched a few online that started to get out of control, when people weren’t sure if they should take the prank seriously or not. I even ended up posting a photo with the caption “Not a joke” to make sure people took ME seriously!

Like I said, I hate not being able to trust the people I should always be able to trust. My absolute favorite quote is:

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.” – George MacDonald

April Fools Day snubs that hard, and that makes me very uncomfortable. I think if I could sleep the day away, I would. It’s just too stressful not to be able to trust people!

So, I welcome April 2nd with open arms. Come back to me, sanity. Come back to me, trust.