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mac_stone ([personal profile] mac_stone) wrote2010-04-15 05:36 pm
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Finished!

I've officially filed my 2009 tax returns.
I'm done! Dunno why it made me so surly and resistant, this year, but it's over with, now.

And I'm going to have a martini. Or three.
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[identity profile] evangoer.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
/high fives Mac

[identity profile] peacockharpy.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Cheers!

[identity profile] daoinesidh.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Well done! I got ours in yesterday, after having done the same surly pacing around the apartment for the past couple of weeks ... :D

MARTINIS???!!!

[identity profile] mac-stone.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Hell YES, Martinis! It made me really, weirdly angry, this year. I've been paying taxes all my life, so it was a little weird. But I kept thinking about AIG bonuses, and...

[identity profile] daoinesidh.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
I can relate ... the AIG thing and all the rest of the bank bailout bullshit ... I need a bailout, dammit!! :\

My exclamatory question regarding your choice of done-with-taxes-drink had mainly to do with the fact that I LOVE MARTINIS ... I know that I really shouldn't admit this as freely as I do, but 007 has always been a bit of an obsession for me, and 'shaken, not stirred' was the first legal drink I ordered on my 21st!! Of course, that Vesper that I drank on that anniversary a couple of years ago did leave me in such a state ... you can ask J about that adventure ... oh dear ... :) :)

[identity profile] mac-stone.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god on a pony, I love an icy cold dirty vodka martini with blue-cheese stuffed olives.

[identity profile] daoinesidh.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Oh stop it with your blue-cheese ... now my mouth is watering ... :D

[identity profile] mac-stone.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
We should certainly plan a martini date, then! You guys busy Sunday?

[identity profile] daoinesidh.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
We are in Seattle on Sunday ... :( ... BUT! we'll definitely take a raincheck on this one ... :) ... sometime next week maybe ... and we'll bring the olives!! :) :)

[identity profile] avocadovpx.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
William Powell, in The Thin Man: "The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to foxtrot time, a Bronx to two-step time, but a dry martini you always shake to waltz time."

I don't think . . .

[identity profile] medievalist.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Mac has seen, or read, Thin Man tales.

Btw-- I heart Aster.

Re: I don't think . . .

[identity profile] avocadovpx.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
I foolishly assumed Mac had read all of Hammett! From what I can tell, that particular line was in the movie version but not the book.

>> Btw-- I heart Aster.

Not only lovable, but she's also the most famous dog in the NYT crossword.

Re: I don't think . . .

[identity profile] mac-stone.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
Not a foolish assumption at all. I think I've read pretty much all the available Hammet -- though, admittedly, it's been several years.

Re: I don't think . . .

[identity profile] medievalist.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
He's Shakespeare son, right? The twin of Judith?

Re: I don't think . . .

[identity profile] avocadovpx.livejournal.com 2010-04-17 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Well now, there's an alternate history for you -- Shakespeare's son Hammet [sic] lives, grows up to be a playwright, and invents the hard-boiled Elizabethan revenge tragical-comical-historical-pastoral.

If I could rattle off faux-Shakespeare and had a good mental dictionary of place names, I'd write you a pastiche of the opening lines of Red Harvest, about how Personville is called Poisonville. But that's also an alternate history for you.

[identity profile] eljaydaly.livejournal.com 2010-04-16 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! You got in under the wire. Nice work.

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