So I went to do my usual Sunday bill paying routine (I wait until Sunday... sorta seems to ruin the weekend if I do it Friday, so if I can wait, I do.) and pulled up my nifty Excel spreadsheet... I always do it on the computer, the whole "human error" thing was too much with me writing and adding and subtracting, so it was easier this way.

So I pay a bill. Look at the spreadsheet and wonder "hmm, my car payment isn't on here!" I panicked, as it would have been due like 10 days ago, and I swore up and down I paid it. Logged on to the online account banking dealie, it had cleared a while ago. I figured I must not have put it on my spreadsheet, but at $300 I thought that was very, very, odd, especially since I always double-check, even more so if it's a big thing like that! Then I look at the spreadsheet and realize that my car insurance, which I know 100% that I paid, was not on the spreadsheet as well.

So I start to panic. Did my computer shut down and reboot and not save it? How would I know what was paid?! So I start poking around and realize there's a SECOND check register spreadsheet that's the same up until mid march, except it seems as if I was sometimes using one, sometimes using another!!! ARGH! It's only by some MIRACLE that I wasn't bouncing checks left and right.

I print them out and sit down and figure out what was really paid when and fix it up. Then I look at the "balance" column and realize that it says $702.74! Having that much in the middle of the month with all the bills for the week paid?!?! That's never happened. ... I could go right ahead and pay all the rest of April's bills at this very moment!!

I figure one of two things could be going on. 1) I must look at these and figure out where a mistake was made somewhere and there's something that I forgot to transfer to the "real" spreadsheet, or I put a second deposit in by accident. 2) Being that I was mostly working this month off of the spreadsheet with the much lower numbers on it, I THOUGHT we had WAY less money than we really did and I kicked everything into super duper frugal mode so we'd scrape by with just enough to pay the bills this month, thinking there was like $200 in there (that's what the other spreadsheet showed)

So yeeeaaaahhh.... This stinks, It should be easy being that I don't use a debit card, so it's only checks and deposits, but no....

Guess I'd better go take a second look at this nonsense. >: (