I feel like I lived a whole week today! It actually started on Sunday night when Mindy messaged me for details on our booth at the 2008 New York Anime Festival. Since it's coming up this weekend she thought we might want to firm up our plans. I've been so distracted with my house purchase that I haven't been paying too much attention to it. She also pointed out that she didn't see us on the Vendor list. I assured her they'd cashed my check and we had booth 330.
Of course once we finished our conversation I decided to wander over to the NYAF website to check. It's not like I haven't had my check cashed and not gotten a table before. And what do I see? Booth 330 is registered to another vendor! EEP. Plus, I realize looking over the vendor packet that I don't have my DTF-17 Sales Tax form that I need to open up my booth. Cruising over to the IRS.gov website I see the requirements are that the form be sent 20 days prior to the event. The event is four days away.
Did I mention it's past Midnight on Sunday when I realize all this? Of course brain goes into full panic and worry mode and I didn't get much sleep. I did manage to come up with a few plans and solutions, but since I couldn't act on any of them the rolling thoughts didn't help too much.
So I was very sleepy when I got into work the this Monday morning and started to making phone calls. First call was to Mark at NYAF, my contact in the sales office. He confirmed that the website was wrong and that Mindy and I did have booth 330. Also that we could set up Friday morning since we're going to miss the Thursday check in. Next I called my father since he does a retail business in NY state, he probably has a sales tax form. He's out of state on a golf trip but I was hoping he'd be able to tell me where it was.
No such luck, though I did put in a call to his accountant on his okay to ask for a copy. Which I did multiple times, and which they said they faxed, but never arrived. My mother's friend owns a hat shop, so I wanted to ask her how she'd gotten hers. Mom said she'd ask, and I called the IRS to see how quickly a form could be gotten, if I could possibly rush a request through for a fee or something. According to the very nice lady I could submit a form online, and in two days if it had been approved they could fax me a copy of the form and that was the fastest way to get it done.
That would mean I'd be in limbo until Wednesday when I'd find out if I could get a form. Thank goodness for my mother's friend who produced a number for the Syracuse office of Taxation. A quick call there and I got a form to fill out. And my boss let me leave early to deliver it and pick up my sales tax cert. Whew! Crisis averted!
Just as I got into the car, relaxed and assured that all details had been covered for my trip, when my cellphone rang. It was my home inspector, with what I thought was my radon test results. It was the last portion of the home inspection that was started on Saturday. But actually it was to let me know that the owner of the house had apparently been furious that the radon testing equipment was there and she'd locked him out of the house and was holding his equipment hostage! She's not only kept him from his equipment, but is threatening to throw it out! This is bizarre because she was fully informed about the inspection and the testing. This causes a flurry of phone calls between me, my realtor, the listing agent, the home inspector and the home owner. The final resolution was that she surrendered the equipment to the listing agent who will give to the home inspector tomorrow. Then we'll find out what the radon test results were or if they were compromised.
Then I went home and hid under a blanket for a few hours.
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