Friday News

Yesterday was a happening day at the Koehler household. It was Autumns turn to be awarded a "Soaring Eagle Award". She brought the announcement home on Wednesday and became very bummed when I told her I couldn't make it. Friday was my first day at work at Liberty tax. Adam had the "day" off on Friday so he was able to make the ceremony and see her get her award. I went from sad about not being able to see it, to really bummed by her reaction to having Daddy be there. Somehow it didn't matter at all if I wasn't there or not. She did demand that Dad bring his camera and take pictures so I can see.
Adam had the "day" off like I said because he had the 10pm-4am shift in the dorms. He had what I call babysitting duty. This always throws his schedule off, so he is planning to sleep until noon today...
Yesterday was my first day working as a licensed tax preparer. I took my test this week, which covers the basics we did in class. The questions throw on additional information, or tricks you if you don't read carefully. You have 4 hours to take the test and you can use your books. I was finished in twenty minutes and passed with a 87%. I was so mad at the questions I did miss because it was the reading errors and missing trick words like "only". You have four attemts to pass so I tried again, but sadly did worse because I started to second guess myself..... so I stuck with the 87!
When I got to work yesterday,which was 15 minutes early, there were people outside waiting already! Lee ,my boss and the store owner, told me to go ahead and turn the "open" sign on and start making coffee. Before I could get the coffee done our waiting room was full. I was so nervous I just wanted to throw up!!! I did kind of stumbled through the first one and Jamie our assist manager came in to help, and she did it finessly to make it look like I knew what I was doing...and after that things went well. I did ten returns in eight hours, which was the most out of everyone there. One was mine so Lee was teasing that it doesn't count....but it was one of the hardest because of all the state returns. Mine was Idaho and Adam is still California....for now! Then because we bought the Ford, I chose to itemize and get the sales tax on it and write off the mortgage interest we paid on the house.