And before that...

It is almost Tax Time! I have not gotten any of my W2s yet and it's starting to itch because here is a secret, the biggest secret of all:

I fucking LOVE doing my taxes.

I don't know why. I mean I kind of do and here's what I suspect it is:

1) My money. All mine. Look at all the money I made! I am such a big girl! And even looking at how much of it went to my bloated federal and state governments somehow doesn't bother me cause it's like whatever, inevitable. Death and taxes that sort of thing. Hey you know what bexley's very first words were? Death and taxes. It sounded like "det und taxess." He was an infant. It was dope.

2) My dad always used to do my taxes and wouldn't let me carry my own passport when we traveled and all sorts of little things that would kind of undermine my sense of independence. Not that I hold it against him anymore cause now i just think it was cute. But when i do my taxes it is a huge statement of independence for me. And i can do all the math all by myself and mail them in on time and then

3) i get to cash my refund check and spend it on candy. Though, now that i'm a grown up, those refund checks don't have quite the same HotCha as they did when I was exempt.

4) You get to play with forms and it's like playing office except for REAL and they even give you an extra form in case you mess up and if you don't mess up or if you use pencil at first like a non-dolt, you can do WHATEVER YOU WANT with the other form like put stickers on it and write "1 million billion dollars" in the adjusted gross income box and pretend you're a blind married head of senior citizen household and then, THEN you can take your Mary Chen stamp and stamp all over the form and put it in another pile and then stamp it again and then put it back in the first pile. Oh taxes rule.

Unless you are self-employed like my sister or have actually sold stock or some nonsense in which case god help you.

This weekend i saw rock shows, and um what else. I watched the sopranos and Raj and Graham lent me episode 1 and 13 which i've never seen and so between those and the twilight zone episode of felicity that i taped, it's a party at Chen's tonight. And I'm invited!