Why God Doesn't Want Me To Do The Checkbook Today

We are 3 months behind in entering stuff in our checkbook software program, Microsoft Money. Recently, I spent exactly 3 months working from CO. Coincidence? I think not.

Fortunately, all of our bills are on “auto-pay,” so we don’t have to sit down and pay our bills every week. They just pay themselves, as long as there is cash in the bank. We have automatic paycheck deposits, too.

Cool, eh?

But over the course of 3 months, there is a lot of paperwork piling up that still needs to be dealt with.

Like all those miscellaneous purchases that occur every week. Gas. Food. Groceries. Hair dye. Bikini Wax. You know, the essentials.

Over three months time, those purchases add up. Takes a lot of wax to keep PB’s back hairless, ya know? Just kidding. He doesn’t wax his back. Yet.

Do you know how much inertia you need to overcome to even consider tackling the checkbook after three months of ignoring it?

More energy than I usually have for an entire day of tasks.

More energy than I have had the last three weeks I’ve been home from CO.

But today I was in a cleaning/fixing mood (something that happens so rarely, I really need to take advantage of it when it flits through) and I finally convinced myself it would be OK to take a very small quick peek at it.

First I had to organize all of the bill statements. Alphabetically and by date, since I have multiple months from every utility and bill company.

Then I had to log into the money program on the home PC. I had not accessed it from my login since Papp Bear last messed with (or, as he refers to, “re-deranged”) things on the PC, so of course the shortcut link to the program did not work.

So I Skyped (is that a real verb? How about, IM’d?) PB a message asking how to access the program.

And waited.

And waited.

Then I texted PB a message. He texted back: “Skype”

Yeah, duh, already did that! You didn’t respond!

So (via Skype IM) he walked me through how to access the program, and I took my pile of utility bills in a big ‘ol stack and set them in front of my keyboard and was going to begin, when I remembered I also have to have USBank up, to look at the transactions as they hit the bank, to verify them against what my software program says it is going to enter for me.

So I opened up an internet browser window.

Then remembered our internet was broken.

So I called Frontier. Got through immediately – wow!

The Helpline person told me to unplug the modem. We had already rebooted it and left it sitting for several minutes, so I didn’t see how this would help. But sure enough, after plugging it back in, the darn DSL light lit up and so did the internet light, and I had internet access for oh, about, 2 minutes, just long enough to hang up the phone with that rep.

So I called right back – and got a recorded message that the wait time would now be 10 minutes.

It was 13 minutes.

And they couldn’t help me. They have to send out a tech. Some time between now and 24 hours from now.

At which time I will no longer have the energy or desire to do the checkbook anymore.

God must not want me to do the checkbook today.

Thanks, God. I owe ya one.