Blearg! First time I know of that I've caught ConCrud this badly.

[wolfwings]

I was bad enough that my roommates took my phone and car keys away, to guarantee I wouldn't go into work, and one of them that worked at the same company went in instead after calling my boss for me. So... yeah, +1 Delerius for a'while there, still feeling blearg now though. Didn't feel bad at all until I got home from work yesterday, suddenly BLAM, I'm toast.

Upside - got my taxes done. Well, federal is punted off. I'm doing the state by hand since it's a pitance and I refuse to pay $30 just to get a $80-100 return faster, compared to my $1300+300 federal return + stimulus check.

All of which is going for a down-payment on a fursuit, hopefully a quadruped by BeastCub. If not, I'm not sure who I'll go with. Now... to get a duct tape dummy assembled. And once I have my tax-return in hand I should have another $1.5k in the bank, so I'll have the entire cost of the fursuit saved at that point in spades I think. Complicated part, need to find out if it's possible or if BeastCub would even be willing to attempt a cross-purpose bodysuit and build both a quadrupedal and bipedal set of arms/heads. Or even if she'd rather just build the forearm braces and let someone else build the actual suit for that matter, especially since I saw quite a few very awesome avian fursuits at FC this year so I'm not sure who I'd want to go work now.

So... who among my wide and varied friends list would be willing to tackle a fursuit/quadsuit combo based on BeastCub's braces, some time before next FC? I'm budgetting $3k for this, is that about right? If nobody, I'll poke BeastCub directly once I have cash in hand/bank.

Now to wait for wolf_nymph to get back to me about doing the concept art, since the only thing I'm dead-set on is having her do that part because of how wonderfully she's able to blend avian & canine forms nicely, especially for the head, and she seemed jazzed about the idea when I spoke with her briefly at FC. So the earliest I could get this actually done is all the way in like... June/July anyways, if I recall the schedule she mentioned.

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S'usually awfully easy to do, actually.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

I still use H&R Block for the Federal taxes since that's 100% free and convenient to get the refund back in a hurry. What state are ya' in? At least for California and Missouri (the states I was and am now living in) the tax forms are incredibly well documented and I've never had to use more than the 1040-EZ form yet.

Re: S'usually awfully easy to do, actually.

[dashutri.livejournal.com]

AZ

Re: S'usually awfully easy to do, actually.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

In AZ's case, they call it the 140 form, and you'll probably still use the 140EZ form, with the instructions that give you things like the standard deduction and what-not. They have a fillable version, but it only works with the full version of Acrobat so I'm just linking the print-and-snailmail form. Standard decuction is $6,621 unless 'married filing jointly' when it's double that, $13,242. The instruction sheet goes through most of the other details, though if you're filing as 'single' then the form's pretty trivial.