I declare the tax stuff half-done. Everything got sorted, and all but three of the ten stacks of receipts have been calculated. My calculator doesn’t have an ‘erase current input without erasing the ongoing total’ function and the decimal button is finicky, so if I make a mistake I have to begin all over again. As a result it feels as if I’ve actually calculated about twenty-seven stacks of receipts so far. I really, really wish there was wine in the house.

I only made half of what I made in 2007, which isn’t surprising as I didn’t work in-house for three months with a major local game design company. All I did was write one book, and do the freelance evaluation gig. Which means I’m anticipating some kind of return, the only question being how much (or little!) of one. Money coming back is always good.

Tomorrow I’ll calculate the utilities and such, and go through my credit card statements for the correct conversion from USD to CDN amounts on research book orders from the first half of the year when I was writing the hedge witch book. As I sorted I was actually impressed to see that on half of them I’d noted down the Canadian conversion as the credit card statements came in, so go me; it’s not going to be as much of a nightmare doing it as last year’s was. (Yes, I can learn from my past mistakes.) I think we need one more receipt, and then HRH can call our awesome tax guy.