So, being the organized, punctual person I am….I decided to take a stab at my taxes last night.  Now, keep in mind that I have some sweet history with our friends at the IRS and Mass DOR in terms of being selected once for an audit that did not work out well (due to some silly reasoning on their part!), so I am not to anxious about doing my taxes!

This year, I decided to do the most basic return in hopes of just being done with it and eliminating any chance of Uncle Sam questioning my write-offs.  I even had my W-2′s ready to go and put somewhere safe so I could grab them when it was time and file away.  Well, there is a slight problem with that.  I don’t know where this “safe place” is!

I tore apart my house looking for them and my laptop bag (where I swear I put them) and nothing!  So now it is almost noon on tax day and I have nothing!!  Leave it to me to wait until the last minute and then lose my W-2′s!  I have calls out to the places I received them from and am waiting to hear back.  Hopefully it all works out and I don’t get a friendly visit from the tax fairy.

As for my daughter Elizabeth, she had her tonsils taken out Monday.  She is 7 and snores like Andre the Giant (not that I would know what he sounded like or even if he snored, but I think you get what I mean).  She had them taken out at Emerson Hospital in Concord and everything went great!  That Hospital ROCKS!  It made me want to get my tonsils taken out!

As soon as we walked into the room to get her ready, they had a poster hanging up that they made with her name on it, a bed full of toys, some cool scrubs to change into AND a flat screen TV!  I wasn’t sure if I was in a hospital or a 5 star hotel!  All of the Dr’s and Nurses were amazing and made her feel so comfortable.  I wasn’t sure if she was going to get nervous or cry (which would be very understandable for a 7 year old) but she was a trooper and had no problems.

After her surgery she was a bit out of it and just laid in her bed watching some cartoons.  Again, the Nurses were in non-stop to check on her and tell her how great she did.  One Nurse was so impressed that she came back and gave her a brand new Barbie Doll!  Who does that?  I wonder if I go get something taken out if they will hook me up with an IPhone or at least a Popeye’s Chicken gift card!

Anyway, she is home now and on the road to recovery.  She has been on the couch non-stop and still has not complained.  I can tell she is in pain and discomfort, but she really is just dealing with it.  I think a lot of it is due to the staff at Emerson and how cool they were and how they made her feel comfortable and treated her like a “big girl”.

Too often you hear about how bad service was or how people are rude when you go somewhere etc. (and I know I am the biggest complainer about idiots).  I thought I would share a good story for once as I felt they did an amazing job with my daughter.  Like I said, I want to get something done to me so I can stay there and enjoy the nice people, watch the Red Sox on the flat screen and get a poster made with my name on it!  It is like a mini-vacation with some surgery tossed in.

Now, if only the IRS/ Mass DOR could treat me this way life would be AWESOME!!  Good luck to me, right?  Oh well…off to go plead for some help and hope that they don’t have some crazy fine or penalty for me losing my W-2′s!