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I have an ongoing list in my head called "Things I Should Have Done by Now."  The list includes both personal and business related items. 

On the personal side there's things like... send off for a copy of Seth's birth certificate and... try on my bridesmaid dress for the wedding I'm in next weekend (holy mother of pearl, please let that baby fit). 

Business-wise there's one item in particular that is really haunting me, my taxes.  I have got to get those dang taxes done.  

It's not that I mind paying the taxes.  I hide money from myself all year for that.  What I hate is pouring over excel worksheets and receipts and paypal logs and mileage records and blah blah blah...  Plus we moved in 2012, and since I work from home that move makes doing my taxes all the more... fun.

So anyway, I've had my calculator out a lot recently, and on one of those days I swore I was going to finish filing my taxes I ended up painting this instead.  Whoops.

To make matters worse, I wasted a whole lotta time figuring out words I could "write" on my calculator before I even started the painting.

Check it out. 

3704 is calculator speak for hole, as in the hole the federal government is going to throw me in if I don't finish filing my taxes. 

Eventually I did find the perfect "word" for my painting though.  Simple.  Friendly.  With juuuuust the right touch of the hell that is doing my taxes.
   

".7734" 7x5 watercolor on paper by Holly B. Johnson ©2013