About Jenny

Jenny is a wife, mother, mam'ma, artist and accountant living and working in western North Carolina.

Happy Anniversary, Tax Act Reform of 1986

Today is the 23rd anniversary of the current iteration of the Internal Revenue Code, which came in to being when Ronald Reagan signed the Tax Act Reform of 1986.

CPA exam review materials…

As we slowly move toward the end of September, and the date when I’ll know if my “I think I fell asleep, oh, my gosh!” taking of the FAR portion of the exam worked, I’ve started looking for review materials I can afford.  I think I’ve settled on CPA Review for Free’s set of printable [...]

Dinosaur comics…

…is totally hysterical.  Again.

And while you’re at it check out these PSAs:

Why I need an iPhone…

…Internal Revenue Code iPhone app!

Of course, the high price tag on the actual iPhone, combined with a monthly bill for using the interwebz, is why I won’t actually be getting an iPhone.

Whew – what a week!

The week is over, and I’ve had time to finally sit and process everything.  Things of note:

Blogging. I have a lot less time to do things – like update my blog.  It turns out that being employed full-time is a giant time eater.  Who knew?  My plans for this upcoming week are to work out [...]

Day 63: Of exercise, eats and examinations

Exercise:  Today Moira and I hit the gym for our usual daily round of cardio and weights.  The gym we go to – the YMCA – has some issues with equipment that seem to be related to a cash flow problem.  When we started there were two treadmills out of order.  Now there are five [...]

Day 50: An interview, a call, and a cat

An interview:  Today I spoke with the folks at a semi-local health care entity regarding an internship position they have open.  The position is projected to become full time in 6 months – with the intern offered the spot if all has gone well.  I was referred to the post by Dr. Swanger at Western.  [...]

Day 43: Unemployment officially begins

Today I applied for unemployment.  I think that’s what it’s called – it might be that I actually applied for unemployment insurance.  That wasn’t made clear to me.  I used the NC Employment Security Commission website to apply – I could also have done it in person or by phone, as near as I can [...]

Day 41: Moving

Today I worked on moving:  on and about.

Moving On: I’ve begun to look seriously at what I’ll do next.  Now, of course I have already looked at that in the sense that I intend to continue trying to be an accountant.  All the time I spent returning to get my degree in accounting will not [...]

Day 40: Notables

Of note today:

We watched the Watchmen.  And it was excellent.  (Click for full size comic!)
I hit the gym again – so that’s a start: two days running.  Well, not literally running as such.  I did 30 minutes on the bicycle, and 5 minutes on the elliptical (a different elliptical today – one that had arm [...]