Doing Taxes on Valentine's Day
Feb. 14th, 2026 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerPeople often ask, "What are you doing for Valentine's Day?" like it's some kind of holiday. And I'm like...
In fact most of the past several years I've not only been working on Valentine's Day, I've been traveling for work. My company's sales kickoff (SKO) is usually the week of Valentine's Day. See also this card from my boss several years ago: Valentine's Day Is A Fake Holiday Anyway. This year SKO finished a few days before Valentine's Day And Valentine's Day is on a Saturday, anyway.
Working on V-Day, as people commonly called it nowadays, never really bothered me anyway. It really isn't a holiday. And the way it's treated like such a major one nowadays bemuses me. I mean, I'm Bah, Humbug! about Christmas. You can bet I'm all Bah, Humbug! about this made-up Hallmark holiday. ...Except it's not even just Hallmark and candy makers anymore. It's florists and jewelers and restaurants and god knows what else. And stores started filling whole aisles with V-Day themed shit the day after Christmas. Bah, Humbug!
Perhaps in protest over the obnoxious over-promotion of V-Day I'm doing one of the least Valentine-y things I can think of today: I'm working on my taxes.
I put in a solid 3 hours on it this afternoon. I think I'm only about 30% done. And that's after doing some prep work weeks ago. Plus the prep work I start over a year in advance.
Will I come back after dinner for another tax session? Possibly, but unlikely. Most likely I'll pick it back up on Monday, when I don't have work since it's an actual holiday, Presidents' Day.
In fact most of the past several years I've not only been working on Valentine's Day, I've been traveling for work. My company's sales kickoff (SKO) is usually the week of Valentine's Day. See also this card from my boss several years ago: Valentine's Day Is A Fake Holiday Anyway. This year SKO finished a few days before Valentine's Day And Valentine's Day is on a Saturday, anyway.
Working on V-Day, as people commonly called it nowadays, never really bothered me anyway. It really isn't a holiday. And the way it's treated like such a major one nowadays bemuses me. I mean, I'm Bah, Humbug! about Christmas. You can bet I'm all Bah, Humbug! about this made-up Hallmark holiday. ...Except it's not even just Hallmark and candy makers anymore. It's florists and jewelers and restaurants and god knows what else. And stores started filling whole aisles with V-Day themed shit the day after Christmas. Bah, Humbug!
Perhaps in protest over the obnoxious over-promotion of V-Day I'm doing one of the least Valentine-y things I can think of today: I'm working on my taxes.
I put in a solid 3 hours on it this afternoon. I think I'm only about 30% done. And that's after doing some prep work weeks ago. Plus the prep work I start over a year in advance.
Will I come back after dinner for another tax session? Possibly, but unlikely. Most likely I'll pick it back up on Monday, when I don't have work since it's an actual holiday, Presidents' Day.
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Date: 2026-02-16 08:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-02-16 05:53 pm (UTC)I don't disagree at all with you that it's not a holiday. It truly has become a retail nightmare.