A taxing day

[hrj]

Well, I didn't quite manage to finish the taxes completely, since I discovered that I don't seem to have received the official 1098 for my mortgage. (Got the 1098 from the same institution for my equity-line loan.) I guess it's possible that I received it and it's somewhere in the unexcavated part of the dining room table. At any rate, I'll nag Wells Fargo about it tomorrow. I have the numbers roughed in from the monthly statements, but if I'm saying "X appears on the 1098" then I want to be certain it's true. At any rate, I have some notion what my refunds will be, which is nice. (And yet one more nice thing about Turbo Tax is that if my roughed-in numbers aren't quite correct, the changes will be propagated automatically. Yay.) I don't know why this process is so mentally exhausting. Maybe it's all the ancillary activities, like making sure the year's receipts and statements are all organized and filed. And doing the 5-year archiving of the various document folders. (You know, all those old utility statements, bank statements, etc. etc. that one keeps forever.) And running around tracking down random numbers that I forgot I was going to need. And deciding how the odd random deductible expenses should get categorized. And ... yeah, mentally exhausting.