divine angst

I “mocked up” our taxes last night so I could finish and submit my FAFSA. In the end, I went with a lot of close estimates because I use TurboTax and didn’t know what numbers were going in what 1040 form lines. Point being, the FAFSA is done and sent. Whew! The taxes are not.

I hate taxes. I used to not mind doing my taxes—I almost always got a little refund. Not a big refund, as that would have pissed me off because who needs to give the government an interest-free loan, but a little one, the kind of refund that could pay for a fancy evening on the town or a new purse.

Not this year, though. Damn marriage penalty. I’m annoyed, angry, and a little worried after my bout with the numbers. We actually owe taxes this year, and it’s all because of the stupid marriage penalty.

Gr.

Gmail now has POP access.

This is a Good Thing if, like me, you have multiple Gmail accounts and tire of switching between them either on a single browser or using multiple browsers. I like all my mail to come to a single location, so I can now read Gmail in my handy mail application—along with work and home emails. Also, and this is a very cool feature, if you set it up properly, any mail you send from your mail app using your Gmail account is copied back to your online space. So you retain all messages, which is, after all, the whole point of Gmail.

If you don’t have a Gmail account yet, I’ve got a few: ask and ye shall receive.

If you’ve already got a Gmail account, consider retrieving your messages via POP. Instructions for various common mail apps can be found in your Gmail settings tab for Forwarding and POP.