Its Monday

Ok, well I'm pretty much caught up with my work so I'm going to take a few minutes to update this thing.

Tax season has been over for practically a month now.. and I am finally catching my breath. This was my first tax season working full time and I cannot even begin to explain how stressful it was. My job is not very strenuous or physical by any means, but after ten hours of looking at 1040's, listening to clients complain that their refund wasn't as big as last year's, or why do they owe this year, or why don't they owe this year.. it definately begins to take a toll on your sanity. On top of that, I was studying for my second part of the CPA.. which I took 4/25. I still haven't received my grade.. but I don't have a good feeling about it. I wasn't fully prepared and I totally blanked on one of the simulations. But we'll see.

I have my next test this Friday on Auditing. I am taking a few days off this week to study.. but Derek's parents are leaving for Key West tomorrow which puts us on Dogsitting duty. I usually don't mind dogsitting Frankie (their extremely high strung Chihuahua) but with having Josie, I feel funny leaving her. So it should be fun trying to plan my next 2 weeks around Frankie. God love him.

Anyways, the wedding planning is going extremely well. As all of the people I have talked to has told me.. I am extremely ambitious and "on the ball" with most things. But I worry that I found my dress too early.. it was 2 sizes too big to begin with and now that I have joined a gym, I'm afraid that I will lose so much weight that the integrity of the dress will be lost by the alterations.

The house is coming along pretty well.. I had a little "freak out" session a couple of weeks ago. But I'm over that. The time constraints still worry me.. but I've realized I can't do anything about it so its not worth it. To put you up to speed.. the lease for our apt is up 7/23. We leave for Italy on 7/30. We are supposed to close on the house 7/15 giving us a little over a week to move from the apt to the house and only a week to catch our breath and pack for Italy. Insane I know! Derek's parents said we can stay with them if it is not done, but I would hate to put Josie in a kennel for that long. I know we are going to be gone in Italy half the time anyway, but I would feel better knowing she can atleast roam around the house and not be stuck in a tiny ass cage all day.

Well, I'm going to try and post atleast a couple of times a week.. LOL.. we'll see how long that lasts. But I have to head out to a client so I'm signing off. Ciao!