2006 taxes: done and done!

plus, added bonus: despite my fears that due to changing jobs my tax withholdings were going to be screwy (in a bad way), i did not have to write a fat check to the irs! HOORAY FOR NO FAT CHECK WRITING! (especially hooray since due to the checking account madness + my semiannual auto insurance payment i have, like, $300 to my name until payday. oh, that, and my laundry quarters. dear electric company, and everybody else: please do not send me bills until after tax day. thank you!)

hooray for turbo tax! i’ve used it for years and years and it makes taxes so much less painful it isn’t even funny. it almost makes you forget you’re dealing with Form 1040… this year, i went with the online version rather than the installed-software version. the only functionality i lost was the ability to import my quicken data, since it only supports quicken for windows, not mac. (it was able to import previous turbotax/mac data, though.) it was nice. i just clicked on to the site and started working, and a few hours later — done! i was pleasantly surprised by the experience since i was expecting another crappy ajax and javascript-laden monster site that would make my poor firefox freak out in new and exciting ways. in fact, my only glitch was when the AT&T repair guy showed up to work on my busticated phone line, and cut my DSL for 45-60 minutes or so in the middle of listing my deductions. (“Host Not Found” error in an ajax pop-up — heh.) anyways: hooray!