I’ve slacked all week, so I just sat down to do the bills, which includes the $1300 we just put on the credit card for the tickets to Denver (Woo! Woo! [for the trip, not for $1300 on my credit card.])

For the first time in an extremely long time, I actually had a negative balance in Quicken. Of course $900 of that was on two items that are 12 months same as cash, so they aren’t gaining interest, and we’re both getting paid on the 15th, but still. That red $300 was extremely sad to see.

Then I started opening bills, which was of course was even more depressing. Nestled in the middle was the monthly statement for our savings account. I jokingly thought to myself, “Well, maybe there are a couple deposits Michael forgot to enter.”

There were.

To the tune of almost a thousand dollars.

(This is why I don’t let him do the bills. Because it’s a bad thing when I discover several hundred dollars in un-entered credit card slips. [In his defense, it Christmas.])

So in the span of ten minutes I went from being worried about money, to being happy that I had a thousand dollars I didn’t know about. Which really makes no sense because the actual amount of money in those accounts has not changed. I have no more or no less money than I had yesterday (at least until I write out the gas bill.) So why should that discovery make a difference?

But it does. I felt MUCH better than I had, even though the actual numbers meant nothing. (Unless we have a 6 or 12 months same as cash deal, we pay off all credit cards each month, so it’s not like we’re garnering interest or anything.)

Now I just have to wait for August and the economic stimulus package. (Talk about unfair. With 75 and 99 Michael and I are in the LAST group to receive checks. My brother is 01, which means he’ll get one of the first checks written. BAH!)

OK, back to writing bills.

ADDENDUM the First:
And the last thing I opened was a check! Yippee!