So earlier today I told you about how I couldn’t find my W2 for the life of me … how I had to call people in HR and give them my credit card info and what not so that they could over night me a copy of my W2.

Tonight I get home from work, and there in my apartment is a bin of mail. Aparently there was a period of time when my mailbox was over full and there has been a seperate box of mail down stairs for me all this time … which I didnt know about.

Inside is of course … my W2.

So I’m getting a duplicate for no reason it seems, but I’ve already done my taxes now. It was a snap once I had the dang W2.

I’ve got issues … many issues. I know - not exactly breaking news, but it seems like about the right place to start this blog.

First things first, nice weekend this past few days. I’ll tell you about my purchase in a blog later this week. As nice as the weekend was however, it was a constant reminder of one of my bigger issues right now.

My plans for this weekend were varied and lofty and all started with “do my taxes”. For those of you who think I’ve waited too long to start that, I really haven’t (normally). See I have a very simple tax situation and I have the last five or six years worth of tax data in TurboTax. I can do my taxes and electronically submit them in about an hour. I can wait until the day before if I want and still have plenty of time.

This time however, when I started to sit down to do them I realized … I’ve no idea where my W2 is.

I’ve searched everywhere. I have a fairly small apartment and I have searched everywhere. My state tax forms are MIA as well … which means they are all likely continently together neatly awaiting tax time. I just have no idea where I put them.

I have a file folder here with all my tax data going back to 1999 and logically I would have put this years tax papers in that folder. But they aren’t there.

There are only a few plausible explanations, but none of them allow for me getting that W2 back. So with 5 days left I’m W2-less.

So this morning, in addition to catching up on the things that waited on me while I was in Florida, I have to call … someone … and see how quickly I can get a replacement W2. It probably wont be fast enough, in which case I have to file an extension for filing my taxes. And extensions are a pain in the ass since you still have to pay by April 15th even though you’ve no real way of knowing what you owe. sigh

Anyway last night I started watching “The Bourne Identity” pretty late into the evening. It was awesome! I purchased the DVD and also “The Bourne Supremacy” from a Borders in Florida. Naturally once I’d seen the first movie (it was great) I couldn’t wait to see the 2nd and I put it in afterward. It was like 3:30am before I got to bed. Both movies were great however.