Singin The "Tax Blues"

If there's no new blogs in the next couple weeks, you'll know why - it's time to get the tax stuff ready!

On our personal side, I'm organized! All the bills and pertinent papers are neatly organized in the accordian-file folder - all I needed to do was to pull them out, add up some figures and it's ready to go to the tax-preparer! DONE!

But the business side - oh my - that's another story! I decided last year it was time to stop "hand writing" out all the income and expenses - I actually didn't mind doing it that way and I actually kept up to date most of the time. Putting all those figures in neat little columns and then adding them up each quarter!

Somehow I convinced myself that it was time to get those books on the computer - Jessi said she knew how to use Quicken and my computer actually had the program already on it! So last Feb., ( we're talking a YEAR ago, not last week!) Jessi came down one weekend, taught me how to put the books online and I inputted Jan. and Feb.'s receipts and expenses. Guess what - when I looked at the computer a couple of nights ago, there was STILL only last Jan. and Feb. done on the computer!! Had it really been an entire year since I had done the books??? Gee, I guess so!

It was back to the drawing board as I had NO RECOLLECTION of how to do any of it!! I actually sat there looking at the computer for a solid 1/2 hour, panicking at the thought of having to do almost an entire year! But pretty soon reality kicked in and I knew if I put my mind to it, I could do it! So let's see, I think I made 4 entries that night!

I guess my weekend project is already written in stone! Wish me luck!