The Mike Stories, Pt. 6

OH. MY. GOD.

this is all Mike's fault.

we got an e-mail this afternoon requesting yet MORE information... after i had been told that they had everything they needed (for like the hundredth time)... they need Mike's 2006 tax return..

so Mike calls me and asks me to send it for him... he said it was on his laptop... so i pulled up the friggin' my docs section, and found 2007 returns... that's it. there was a turbo tax file for 2006, but it was all messed up. i tried "print to pdf" and all it actually saved was some instruction letter, that was completely useless.

so i asked Mike 'don't you have paper copies of this stuff somewhere?' (like everybody else?!!!)... he said he does, they're in his file thingy... and guess what he did with that????? he PACKED it in a box somewhere.

why the hell he would PACK that when he knows damn well that the bank is going to call and ask for more information is beyond me.... on top of it, Mike is NOT an organized packer. he'll take random items from every room in the apartment and put them all in one box together... it makes it next to impossible to find anything... i told him i am most certainly NOT going through every box he packed to find something he knew he should have left out in the first place...

and he better NOT delay the closing date because of this. if it does, then we'll have to call U-Haul and re-schedule our truck, re-schedule the movers we hired, and re-plan everything with all of the friends and family who have set aside time to help us move on Saturday... plus we're wasting my winter break... i had PLANNED on using my winter break to move, clean the apartment & unpack stuff into our new house... at the rate Mike's going, we'll be in this friggin' apartment until Valentine's Day... and does Mike even act like it might be an inconvenience for anybody? NO! he's bouncing around like la-dee-da... everything happens by magic and it won't matter. i swear, men do this on purpose don't they?!!! (i wish i had something that did the opposite of xanex that i could spike his drink with and get him in gear and acting like this stuff needs to happen ASAP!)

** in an un-related, and more up-beat side note - i bought and installed a new power supply for Andrik today ALL BY MYSELF! that's right folks, i've graduated to fixing my own computer.

[originally published 12/23/2008]