February 25, 2008

Posted on | 3 years, 11 months ago, in the early evening | 1 Comment

Let there be rejoicing — for lo, Aric and I are not screwed! Today we paid our CPA a visit, and believe it or not, we’re actually getting a tax refund this year! It’s a wee little refund of about a hundred bucks, but considering the fact that I expected to owe a couple thousand dollars, I’m absolutely delighted.

[:: bootydances all over the living room ::]

In other news, we returned home from the CPA’s office to find the cat under the bed and the maintenance guy’s work underway in the bedroom closet, so perhaps there’s a chance that this will all get sorted out within the week after all. I sure would love to look like a civilized grown-up with closets and everything before my dad and stepmom come out to visit next month. Dare to dream, I suppose.

Anyway, I’ve made limited fiction-writing progress today, but I squeezed out a short scene and I’m pretty happy with it, so that’s all right. I’ll make up for it tomorrow, if I can.

Project: Awake Into Darkness (redux)
New Year’s Resolution Status: Still intact.
New Words Today: 1392
Present Total Word Count: 15,170 words
Goal: 100,000 words by July 1





Things Accomplished in Fiction: Established a bit of the background conflict; met Marlise, who is trouble; lost track of a streaky-haired girl, but that’s okay.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Went to see the tax magician and learned that we’re not going to be eating ramen for the next six months; went to the post office to mail a few things; removed all contents from kitchen; comforted hysterical cat; chatted on the phone about later-in-the-week plans with a friend; scraped up enough quarters for laundry.

Reason for Stopping: I need to replace the contents of the kitchen and I want to get a load of laundry in/done before Aric gets home from work again. Yes, there’s still plenty of writing time, but I need to get a bunch of little things in gear and I probably won’t get back to the laptop today. Such is life.

Total Fiction Words Composed in 2008: 103,772

Category: misc

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One Response to “February 25, 2008”

  1. Cyndy
    February 27th, 2008 @ 6:04 am

    Yay for you guys! Refunds are nice. I’d planned on getting a new laptop with mine, but alas I think most of it will be instead used to cushion the financial blow of (a) starting a new job and being without a paycheck for nearly two months and (b) moving. Oh, well; there’s always next year, I suppose.

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