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*

Comments

[fyellin.livejournal.com]

Write a check. Put your SSN and the words "2007 540" on the bottom of it, and put it in the mail to the Franchise Tax Board. If you want to include a note, do so.

The FTB will figure out what's happened. No need to pay the credit card surcharges.

[fyellin.livejournal.com]

That was, put in the mail >>today<<.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah... if you have, y'know, your checkbook. :) And if you know the amount owed.

I gave up on the concept and went home. Now I have my copy of my tax form AND I have my wallet and all. Too bad about working this afternoon, but at least I can get this taken care of.

[fyellin.livejournal.com]

I suppose my point is that if you've already mailed in your taxes, you don't need to make a copy of them, figure out the postage, and remail everything.

A note to the FTB with a check inside an envelope with a 43c stamp is sufficient. Just make sure it's postmarked today.

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

i've done that before. i keep my car keys clipped to my purse, so i can't get anywhere w/o my purse.

glad you ran home to get what you needed. i know i'd be a wreck worrying about everything.

*hugs*

[nurvuslee.livejournal.com]

You handled it alot better than I would. Being without all the things I need nearby would like cutting my arms off.

[recordersmith.livejournal.com]

*hug*

That's no fun.

I finally put J's house key and work key on his car keys--now he cant forget either of those anymore.

We both also now have two power supplies for our laptops--one at home and one at work, because we can pretty much guarantee that the power supply and the laptop will not be in the same place otherwise. I cannot count the number of times he drove back to work in the evening to get the power supply before we bought the second ones....

I've started writing lists of which instruments and music I need on which days, because if I leave home with the wrong ones, I cant get back in time to fix that before rehearsal....and it's really embarrassing to show up with the wrong ones. (hehe, I'll just improv tonight if you dont mind.....just doesnt cut it with the director....)..and I pack my bag in the evening because I *know* in the morning I'm too foggy to get it right...

[ken_r]

We both also now have two power supplies for our laptops--one at home and one at work, because we can pretty much guarantee that the power supply and the laptop will not be in the same place otherwise.

Isn't that how everyone does it? :) I plan on leaving the power supplies in both places... it's only when I go somewhere else (and try to work online for a couple hours, without planning for it by bringing the PS) that I'm in trouble....

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ah, gotcha. This is in fact what I did. :)

[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.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Isn't it awful? When I reached behind the seat for my purse and it wasn't there I felt my stomach take a dive. Gah!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hah, I love it! Keys are not usually my bugaboo. Exactly once I have locked myself out of my home; exactly once I have locked myself out of my car. It's amazing how I learned those particular lessons. But other stuff, man! Maybe I will never screw up mailing a tax check again. Heh. I can hope.

I love the two power supplies solution. I do that too. And I have no idea how you keep all the instruments and music straight. That seems like a spreadsheet waiting to happen.

[recordersmith.livejournal.com]

We had the silly idea that you just unplugged your power supply and stuck it in the pocket of the computer case when you packed up the computer, so they were always together....that really ought to work....

[recordersmith.livejournal.com]

Folders and labeling. I have a binder for each ensemble (or in come cases, for each concert program), so I just have to remember which rehearsals/lessons I have each day and grab those binders.

Instruments are more complex and I screw that up more often. I own something like 26 recorders, and regularly use at least 10 of those and as Murphy would have it I never seem to use the same instruments in different groups.

Oh, and our great car mess--I was picking J up, and we switched drivers. I left my purse in the car and his keys in the ignition and got out, he reached in to hit the auto unlock button and shut the door to walk around. But he hit the lock all instead. So, his car keys were in the ignition, my car keys and cell phone were in my purse inside the car..the car was on...SIGH!

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Don't you love life's little lessons in humility? No? Me neither.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Haha! Yes, this, exactly. :-)