Unable to Procrastinate Any More

I am talking about taxes. Unfortunately we had to do our taxes last night, after realizing that we are meeting with the mortgage lender this afternoon to sign the documents/provide all the documentation needed for the loan on our new house. Of course one of the documents required was our 2011 tax return, meaning Joel and I were up until 11 pm getting it done (11 pm, when you have a < 4 month old baby, is VERY LATE).

When we do our taxes several things always happen. First we put in Joel's W-2, and since Joel pays the EXACT CORRECT AMOUNT of federal taxes, it tells us at that point that we have a refund of, say, $100. Then we enter my W-2, and when we put in the amount of federal taxes withheld, a little warning comes up which says basically, "Dude is this a typo?" And I say, no, it's not a typo, and then the $100 refund changes to saying that we owe something like fourteen thousand dollars. Because for some reason I pay like no federal income tax during the year. But I am too lazy to change my withholding. Then we spend the next hour and a half putting in every deduction known to mankind, only to be informed time after time, "sorry, you make too much money to qualify for this deduction." But eventually we manage to whittle it down to a more manageable-ish number, something like, five thousand dollars. And somewhere in there Joel starts claiming he's going to vote Republican next time. But he never does. And then we file it, put it all behind us, and repeat again at the very last possible minute next year...