Another cold day

Today was yet another in a series of freaking cold days. However unlike many of the lucky knitters whos blogs I have happened accross this weekend. I had to venture out, daily for work. Not that I was really required to do that much while at work, most of my time was spent sitting waiting for customers to call/stop in. However the car did protest greatly at my need to leave the house. On the thread of work I discovered today that I am scheduled 49.5 hours at one job (doing taxes)this week and 9.5 at the other job. Next week I am scheduled 43 hours at one job and goodness knows how many at the other. I think its going to be a long few weeks and it will only get better as tax season has hardly gotten off to a good start yet.

In other news I have requested the 4th of Feb off for a little day trip so I don't die of over-work. There is a trip to the twin cities planned for some yarn store gazing and perhaps a trip to the MN zoo dependant on the weather. If its freaking cold I am not gonna hike around looking at empty enclousers because the animals are smart enough to be out of the cold.

Despite all the hours I will be working I am still finding time to knit and so on. Might have something to do with the fact that at this time last year I was a full time student with 6 classes, one of which was preparing peoples taxes, and 2 part time jobs giving me about 40 hours a week between the two of them. One was helping students at the local technical college with their accounting homework and the other was preparing tax returns at the same place I am working this year. I sat down and figured out that I prepared about 200 actual tax returns last year along with helping people prepare about another 30-50 for homework. As I have said before it takes a special kind of freak to be an accountant and/or a tax preparer for that matter.

Well its off to a nice knitting murder mystery for me while I wait for my bedding to dry, with luck I'll get to bed at a normal time tonight.