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I survived! I got my full bonus numbers, and more! I (maybe) have more work to do throughout the year! I spent nearly all day sleeping today! When I wasn't sleeping, I was reading! It was GREAT.

I had multiple clients ask to see me again next year, which felt pretty darn good. There were a couple who need to complete more things later in the year, and I told them since the office is open year round, they could see someone else, and they all said they would rather see me. (!) I also had an elderly couple that I think were Thai, who used to own a donut shop, so they brought a big ol' box of amazing donuts into the office for all of us. Their son had come in a couple of days earlier and I'd helped him, so they made their appointment with me. When they sat down they told me that their son hadn't told them he was coming or they would have sent their papers with him, but that he said I was 'really fun' and that he never says much, so they knew it must be true. (!!) It's been a truly wild tax season, but I'm glad I got through it. It was weirdly more enjoyable than I expected it to be, and if I can figure out a way to survive year-round, I think I would like to continue doing this. It's that "surviving year-round" part that's concerning though.

Finally received my new referral to the cardiologist, but when I called the office they hadn't received it yet so they said to wait a day or two and they would give me a call. They have not, and it's been three days, so I may give them a call on Monday if they don't call me first. I'm so eager to get this next step finished so we can keep moving forward. I can't tell if the beta blockers are working; I don't feel like they are? But I dunno.

Also learned this week (tax day, actually) that my therapist is leaving the group, due to family things, so now I have to get another therapist. Again. It shouldn't be too stressful (I hope) because I can stay within group and they'll work to hook me up with someone else, and I already know the insurance is worked out and all that. It's just, y'know. Starting over. Again.

Tomorrow, H is coming over so we can get started on the business handover. I need to go through and get all the various passwords ready, and see if there's anything else to add to the BizOps Manual that Dawn and I started on ages ago but never really finished. Right now we're just focusing on getting the website updated and classes ready for registration because that's more of a time crunch. When H gets back from her cruise (super jelly), we can go over the more business-y things, especially since then will be almost time for final invoices and everything anyway.

And then I guess it's back to life as sort of usual? Work is switching the learning system over after the 19th. It's unclear as to whether all of the completed classes in the level-up set will be lost, or just the ones that are in-progress. Hopefully just the in-progress ones; I don't mind going through them again because they're a bit more confusing than some of the other ones. I guess I'll see what the new thing looks like, and then maybe plan on going to the office on a semi-regular basis just to study rather than work. I know I already have one appointment next week, so that'll probably be my day to check what the new system is like and then figure out my plan from there.

Guess it's also time to start applying to jobs again, because even though I did enjoy the work this season, money and benefits year round would be very good. More than good. Necessary. Sigh.

But I'm not gonna stress about that right now; I'm going to rest up a bit, and maybe do something creative for the first time in ages, and then I'll start looking at future plans. Like which book to read next, cuz I have been burning through my TBR pile, which is kind of amazing!

Somehow? still? alive? There are three days left of tax season, and if they're anything like yesterday, I am going to probably be dead on Thursday.

I completed ELEVEN returns on Saturday, which was a third of our goal for the entire office for the day. Granted, most of them were just wrapping up, because they had dropped off paperwork so it wasn't like I did eleven from start to finish, but there were some that were all new. I've got a bunch of paperwork to go through tomorrow and try to get done - one is for an appointment on Tuesday, one doesn't have an appointment set but I wanna get it done ASAP, especially since I'm not sure it's one I know how to do - it includes a K-1, which is what I'm currently studying how to do, so I'm like, well, it's real life practice, but do I really wanna do real life practice on something this big my first year? (I mean, it'll be fine most likely, I'll be smart about it and get someone to double-check it before I finish, it's just the ol' impostor syndrome again.) Anyway, those 11 returns let me blow past my 75 return goal to get my full bonus this year, huzzah. Nice to know there will be a bit of extra money coming after the season ends.

Boss wants me to work the post-season, at least through the end of the month, but after that I'll be job hunting again, since I can't survive on only 4.5 months of work, and I haven't heard anything about working any cons with Epic/Leap at all. I suppose this summer may be a bit busy, at least May/June, because *drum roll* mom FINALLY is selling/giving away her business and I won't have to work for her any more! Which does mean that I need to train my replacement, but I am SO GLAD to be handing this off. It's been a long time of work that I have mostly hated, and it will be so nice to not be on call 24/7 for mom. Of course, it does mean I'll be out a little bit of money, but I think the lack of stress will help a lot, and maybe with the freed up brain power I'll be able to plan some classes or look for jobs or something. Who knows. I still have no real brain power, and won't for a week or so, probably.

There has been zero movement on the medical front for me, which is very frustrating, other than a potentially incorrect bill for my Happy Stabby, probably because of the whole switchover of the IPA and no rolling over of referrals/authorizations? Who knows. I sent a message to the doc's office and they responded with "don't worry we're looking into it" and I haven't heard anything again since, so *shrugs*. Hopefully it'll all be straightened out before my next stabby? Sigh. 

Mom was in the hospital briefly the other week because of, this is ridiculous sounding, a broken toe. They were afraid there might be an infection so they wanted to keep her for observation and ended up keeping her for two nights. She's not in pain, she's perfectly active, it all felt kind of silly after the fact, but at the time it was stressful since I was at work and neither of my parents is great at communicating. Anyway, mom is back and clomping around the house in her sort-of boot that's supposed to keep her toe a bit more immobile, maybe? She put off her follow up appointment for two extra weeks because of her tutoring schedule (MOTHER. Doctors are hard to get a hold of! Keep the dr appointment, move the tutoring!) which is frustrating. She's all, "I don't think it's getting better," WELL MAYBE GO TO THE DOCTOR INSTEAD OF WALKING AROUND ON IT FOR TWO EXTRA WEEKS. *eyeroll*

Otherwise, nothing much has been going on other than tax work tax work tax work. I probably won't get another level up in before they switch the learning system, but that's okay, because I feel like I want to review what I've studied thus far again before moving on. Weirdly enough, I still think this whole thing is kinda fun, but would be more fun without people, haha. And deadlines! If I could just sit with the paperwork and fill it out and figure out all the stuff, that would be brilliant. Ah well. Some of the people are fun, some aren't. They're all exhausting though.

Oh, I did get to do my yearly Prince of Egypt watch with L and K today. We may not have managed it during actual Passover/Easter time, but it was still pretty close. We haven't been able to watch anything together in AGES so that was really fun. Maybe once tax season ends, and now that I only have one Sunday gig, we'll be able to get back into watching stuff again.

Right. Three more days. I can survive this.