Getting too smug

[cjsmith]

I was so proud of myself for getting a lot accomplished today, and now I realize (after ducking home quickly to pick something up) I've left my purse at home. So I just drove for fifteen minutes without my driver's license; I'm buying a ten pound bag of cat food at the vet's this evening and I have neither cash, checkbook, nor credit card; and a bunch of notes I really wanted to look over this afternoon are also inconveniently not here in the office with me. I also don't have my cell phone. And I'll need to drive home without my license.

Oh, and taxes! I was so proud of myself for mailing those out last week. I realized TODAY - with maybe two hours left to get anything done about this - that I didn't write an actual CHECK. (Feds owed me; I owed state.) I sent the forms in but didn't pay. This is not optimal. So now, even though these forms were all complete long ago, I have to do last-minute scrambling anyway. (In California you can pay your tax bill by credit card, on line. If you have, y'know, your purse.)

I must have been getting too smug. *sigh*

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm fortunate that I work 15-20 minutes from my home. (Heh, "fortunate" also means I've turned down some sweet job offers that were farther away. Whatever.)

This is harder for me to deal with than it has to be, I think, simply because I am not usually a flake. Most of the time I'm on top of things and I do what needs to be done. Days like today can really cut me off at the knees.