I will bet dollars to donuts that if you scroll back through this blog, every year at this time you will see the same post. Maybe not the same exact words but it’s always the same topic, anyway. I have now spent two entire days working on the computer trying to get my finances together so I can do my taxes. I can guarantee you…the taxes will take 20 minutes. The prep work? Days and days and days. Why? Well…my finances are on an old laptop for one thing. It has plenty of space on it, but it isn’t very compatible with the upgraded financial software and becomes even less so with every subsequent download. While trying to make it communicate with my bank, I inadvertently deleted my entire checking account with fifteen years of transactions. Oh. Em. Geeee. I nearly died. I had the backup but couldn’t get the program to accept it.

Yesterday tech support and I spent hours on the phone and I finally got all but the last two years back. Not a big deal because I can bypass the program and download the data through a back door. But, by the time I got to that step, the program froze and wouldn’t do anything, no matter whether I did a hard reboot or what have you. I finally, for the second time, had to just walk away from it. I’ll try again this morning.

Why do I do this? I used to download and balance my account like clockwork…always coming out to the penny. But ever since Mr. Virgo died, I do it just before taxes and it’s always a royal mess. I know I procrastinate but this is ridiculous. I am going to set an alarm on my phone monthly and not only balance, but do a backup in two places so I don’t ever have to go through this again. What a pain in the keister!

If you’ll excuse me…I’m going to go scream now. Oy. ❤️

“The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭12:24‬ ‭ESV‬‬