Day 1: Part Time: drawing to a close
Jan. 9th, 2006 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7So my Free! morning! is drawing to an end, and I must go to work soonish.
I started off the day with a bit of puttering, a tiny amount of tidying, and then I sat down and went to work on my financial stuff. I had been letting things slide, and so there are now three weeks where I can't be sure what my cash income was. I've been rigorously tracking it, but really can't recall now.
So I went through everything, and in not one but two cases found that dates I was missing data for were days I'd called in sick. (This is why I keep a livejournal! Thank you, LJ.) And in a third case, why, I hadn't written the income down, but I had blogged about precisely how busy it was, and so I was able to estimate with reasonable accuracy what my income for that day would have been.
So I've done all the paperwork on that. I just need to wait, I guess, for my W-2, and see what-all it tells me. I had everything all figured out, I thought, and then I realized with a resounding "DUH!" that I was tracking my paychecks by their value after tax, which meant that of course I was way off in what my gross income was, and it was all frightfully boring and yet just interesting enough to tax my feeble math skills.
But yes. This pretty much took me all day.
The verdict?
As near as I can tell, give or take about $200 either way (I think I'm pretty close), my federally-taxable gross income approached $36,500 this past year.
Yeah, I hadn't realized either.
Of course, I told Z, and he immediately insulted me by implying that all that money just fell into my lap and that he worked much harder and his life is misery and how awful that he makes so much less than I do.
Sigh.
Anyhow.
Anyhow. Yes. My job pays better than tech writing in Westchester, officially now. Something to keep in mind, perhaps, the next time things go poorly there.
Oh yes-- on an utterly unrelated note, have had several comments asking when Katy's husband is coming home. I believe he is already there-- he left Baghdad two weeks before Katy did. But I don't know: I'm not exactly well-informed.
I started off the day with a bit of puttering, a tiny amount of tidying, and then I sat down and went to work on my financial stuff. I had been letting things slide, and so there are now three weeks where I can't be sure what my cash income was. I've been rigorously tracking it, but really can't recall now.
So I went through everything, and in not one but two cases found that dates I was missing data for were days I'd called in sick. (This is why I keep a livejournal! Thank you, LJ.) And in a third case, why, I hadn't written the income down, but I had blogged about precisely how busy it was, and so I was able to estimate with reasonable accuracy what my income for that day would have been.
So I've done all the paperwork on that. I just need to wait, I guess, for my W-2, and see what-all it tells me. I had everything all figured out, I thought, and then I realized with a resounding "DUH!" that I was tracking my paychecks by their value after tax, which meant that of course I was way off in what my gross income was, and it was all frightfully boring and yet just interesting enough to tax my feeble math skills.
But yes. This pretty much took me all day.
The verdict?
As near as I can tell, give or take about $200 either way (I think I'm pretty close), my federally-taxable gross income approached $36,500 this past year.
Yeah, I hadn't realized either.
Of course, I told Z, and he immediately insulted me by implying that all that money just fell into my lap and that he worked much harder and his life is misery and how awful that he makes so much less than I do.
Sigh.
Anyhow.
Anyhow. Yes. My job pays better than tech writing in Westchester, officially now. Something to keep in mind, perhaps, the next time things go poorly there.
Oh yes-- on an utterly unrelated note, have had several comments asking when Katy's husband is coming home. I believe he is already there-- he left Baghdad two weeks before Katy did. But I don't know: I'm not exactly well-informed.
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