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The plan for today is to be at least marginally less lazy than yesterday. I've done a drainer full of dishes to start things off. Next up, fold and put away the laundry I did yesterday. The big chore for the day, though, is cleaning the bathroom. Not exactly my favorite of all household chores, sadly.

Oh, the other big chore is to get my taxes done. The queen of procrastination strikes again!

On the bright side, there's at hockey game on NBC this afternoon (Capitals at Rangers) so I'll have at least a little bit of fun. I may even root for the Caps. *gasp*

In other news, I'm taking a fairly last minute mini-vacation this week! I'm working Monday, took Tuesday and Wednesday off to take a nerd road trip to Brooklyn with eve11 - we're going to a Doctor Who premiere and party at the Bell House, which sounds like a great time. Then I have the rest of the week off for CHCC's spring break. This could not come at a better time, as work has truly been hell lately.

Could I have made a bigger mess of this?

Argh! I've been filing my taxes online for a good six years now, and I've never had as much trouble as I have today. I usually use H&R Block and get my federal free and my state for a low fee. I did something wrong and ended up getting the more expensive option, paying lots for my federal. I didn't want to pay even more for state so tried to find another option. Ended up using efile, but ended up paying more than I would have if I'd stayed with H&R. And then even though I said I didn't want to file my federal with them, only state, they asked for info about my federal return that made me very uncomfortable about the possibility of having my federal filed twice. Ended up going back and paying at H&R to file just the state, which I'll have to wait to actually file, now, until the federal gets accepted, since I did them separately. So messed up but I couldn't get any actual answers from anyone and I was feeling a little trapped. And now I'm trying to get the local done. It's a free efile, and I clicked 'submit' at least twenty minutes ago, and the page is still loading. WTF?!? Is this actually going to load at some point, or do I need to close out the window and try again? I'm feeling very confused and anxious, and I seriously freaking hate taxes this year!

Update: Well, I made a decision. After looking at the pgh website, it seems that I'm better off simply closing out the window and trying again later. They recommend not trying to do this over the weekend, as there's too much traffic, and they'll accept local forms through 4/20. So I'll try again tomorrow.

Update 2: The drama never ends! My federal return got rejected because I messed up the Make Work Pay thing. That's fixed, and since I had to re-submit that I was able to submit the state return at the same time. So now all that's waiting is the local, which I'll try to do before work tomorrow. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I had the same problem last year and once I waited for a week day during work hours I had no trouble submitting. Why so difficult?