Feeling Sheepish

Yes, that is me. How could this happen you may ask? Well, I decided that I should balance my checkbook. A new concept since apparently I stopped doing it...last September. Ouch! There must have been something traumatic happening because Josh stopped doing expenses too. Oh, wait, Baby Rome. Yea, now I remember. Everything revolved around the 3 month old baby and how many hours of sleep I could squeeze out of a night. How could I have forgotten to do something as important as balance my check book? It is such a FUN thing to do. Anyway, I decided it was finally time to stop avoiding the hugenormous pile of receipts in my purse and get out the checkbook. (As it turns out I have a whole other half in my purse that used to be full of receipts. Now I can put all kinds of things in there!) I first had to sort the receipts by month because I forgot which side I was going from so they were pretty well mixed. Then, I had to dig out the statements to balance. After that it was pretty easy. I love it when they balance to the penny! Except for the fact that the payments kept going up and up and UP! Man, what is going on? I guess that happens when you stop balancing and keep spending. Pooh. I liked that feeling of ignorance that everything is fine and money grows on trees. What, where did that come from? I kinda knew I needed to watch what I was spending, but I didn't want to try real hard yet. Oh, well. Back to real life. It was a nice 7 month vacation. Now, back to my budget. I stink at budgets. Or, maybe I can find that money tree...