this was our friday sunset—a smashing cacophony of booming clouds with BIG gold light striking through. everything shone from the melting snow and a day of blinding sun. the wind whipped hard too, exfoliating as it went and leaving a fresh face on things. nice.
march strode in very much a lion.
and, being march, the rest of the weekend has been gunmetal gray, snowy, and cold, but that’s nice too (laurie, i’m being non-grumpy). gray is OK when we have a day or two like friday to balance it.
i’ve been sleeping a lot this weekend, but in a very irregular way, so i feel all weird. but good, too because i’m just doing what i want—staying up til morning and sleeping for a few hours at a time.
well, almost what i want. i did have to tackle THIS over the weekend
i know—it looks all very tame and good, right? huh. i am so not a bookkeeper.
it’s not that i don’t love math, or that numbers make my brain freeze. i love numbers and i especially have a secret love for math.
i just don’t love bookkeeping, or organizing the books. i really don’t get it.
but i’m trying! my friend and her husband showed me how to use a bookkeeping program recently, since i now have an official retail business. i’ve been practicing. it’s awkward, but i’m starting to get the hang of it. i still get the feeling i’m doing it wrong, but that’s what questions are for.
anyhow, after spending (i kid you not) all DAY entering data in the computer and wondering where the hell it went, i DID manage to get my tax info in order and am ready for my date with the tax guy tomorrow. the data was there, right where i put it (but where, though??). if helaine is reading this, i bet she’s really glad she wasn’t watching me. it was a real nail-biter. painful.
like a first knitting lesson
i’m actually (sort of) looking forward to a fresh start with the books for the new business. that is, if i can figure out just a couple of small things. like if i put something in the wrong place, i can see it, but i can’t move it. but someone out there wants me to succeed
this came in the mail from a pen vendor, along with an invitation to buy just 1,000 more for 35¢ each. this is what you get when you secure a vendor’s license. bahgains galore.
it got me thinking though. wouldn’t it be cool to have DPNs imprinted with my business name?
maybe with an olive on each end to hold the set together? (watch—within a week, debbiKnitter will have tracked this exact thing down, and ordered twelve dozen).
meanwhile, i also did a lot of knitting (yesterday at least), and am barreling down the homestretch on the starlight evening wrap. i am well into the large star motifs on the other end of the shawl and should be able to complete that tonight.
then it’s just the edging, and it’s done. maybe even by the end of the week, though i’m hoping even sooner. i don’t expect this week to be terribly stressful with work or anything
(ha! famous last words . . .).
i’m starting to get psyched about our trip to NYC in a couple of weeks. we haven’t been back for a visit in quite a while, and our boss asked us to come out for a work-related party event.
mainly, we’ll get a chance to spend time with david’s dad, who is in hospice now (and still without social security, believe it or not).
i’m very much hoping to meet up with friends too, though i don’t know of i can extend the trip to include the yarn harlot’s book launch. but i’m working on that. i’d really love to be there.
normally i am not a fan of the sheep card (sorry). for many reasons.
however, i had to chuckle when this arrived from my friend karan yesterday
demented, verily.
sorry there are no yarn or knitting pix today, but tomorrow there will be.
16 thoughts on “a post of various and sundry items”
Trust me: you are doing a good job with the accounting stuff if you managed to enter all your tax info in one day! It took me days and it was agony. And I did a bad job. Good luck with the tax guy tomorrow.
Spooky card! Reminds me of the Tenniel drawings in Alice in Wonderland.
That is such a cool shot of the sun setting! Ugh, taxes. I still have to do our, and my mother-in-law just gave me the stuff to do hers also. I’m just to darn good at procrastinating.
Really pretty sunset photo! Good luck with the tax man. I am so glad my husband does our taxes. I like math, but I hate forms, and forms hate me.
My mom sent me that same sheep card for my birthday. It’s kind of creepy. Demented is a good choice of word.
Looking forward to the Starlight wrap! Are the borders knit orthogonally to the main body like the wide bordered scarves in Victorian Lace Today? Cause now I know how to do that!
What a fine photographer you are! I love the colors in the sky, the red/gold trees, and the composition.
Oooofff, accounting… I get a knot in my stomach just thinking about it…
Have fun in NYC, my husband is from there!
Beautiful colors in your the first photo!
I have that exact same post card! Synchronicity.
Hope the tax appointment is pain free. And I cannot wait to see the finished shawl!
hi anne,
i too recieved those pens when we got our vendors license – makes you feel official!
we are having a fabulous time in china! but quickbooks are on my tax horizon also. i brought socks to knit but have been going strong sightseeing and buying pear jewelry. miss our wednesday knitting class, can’t wait to see you all. maureen.
GL with the taxes. I’m not a bookkeeper by training but I’ve been keeping the books for our business for the past six years using Quickb**ks. The biggest help was when we started using computer checks and stopped hand-writing them. All the bookkeeping is done when you enter the check instead of having to sit down and enter all the backlog. Even paying the office credit card, I break the payment down into relevant categories. Take time to set up the categories you really use for income and expenses, and “memorize” recurring items to save re-entering them each month. I’ve also got as much as I can on auto-pay and use that memorized items list a lot.
Sorry, that was help you didn’t ask for. Email me if another non-bookkeeper can help you sort any of this out.
Oh, and, lovely sunset!
Oh what a pretty sunset picture.
Good luck on the book keeping. I am sure it will get easier for you as you go.
Love the sheep card. I had to LOL at it when I saw the picture. That one is great.
we have those same pens at our dog kennel! i love the curly tops….dpn’s would be quite unique though! we got our taxes done a few weeks back – i try and get them out of the way asap – I hate doing them!
Awesome sunset picture! I love those magical moments…
I for one would love a pair of your named DPNs with an olive needle holder. Sounds fantabulous! Let me know if you ever get some.
Tameson
Nongrumpy is good, especially when paired with the smashing sunset. You give a very good pictorial idea of life with the shots of your desk, glasses, etc.
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