Role Reversal

The whole premise of this blog (and really, my relationship) is that I am the organized, straight-shooting one and Jen is the creative, impulsive one. But sometimes we experience a complete role reversal, like last week at the accountant's office.

You would assume that I am the one who preps all the tax papers, financial statements, and legal documents before going to see the accountant, right? Wrong. Jen takes care of it all, every year. When we were both employed by corporations, we just did our taxes on Turbo Tax (a beautiful thing, if you haven't tried it). But since we've been running AMG, our taxes have gotten really complicated. So we bring in the big guns (a guy in a suit).

For some reason, I can't wrap my head around taxes. I keep track of all our finances and expenses, yet when it comes to taxes, my mind goes blank and I'm transported back to Mrs. Policastro's trigonometry class, staring at the paper as if it's written in Swahili.

Jen, strangely enough, not only understands the tax filing process, but understands it better than most people. So I happily take a back seat at the accountant's office while she presents the paperwork and answers all of his questions.

I try to pay attention, but it's just so boring.

Luckily for me, the accountant put up a wooden squirrel feeder on a tree right outside his office window. So for the otherwise mind-numbing hour that we were there, I got to watch the squirrels (and they were merry).

It's fun to be the ADD one sometimes.

Comments

[Annie]

I call it Financial Phobia, I just want to stick my fingers and my ears and humm really loudly....

[heyshippy]

It IS fun to be the ADD one! I like squirrels too.