Once more into the breach · Jan 12, 12:25 PM by Amberlee
While the laptop is back up and running, and I have reconstructed most of the lost month of data, end of year Tax information time is now looking me hard in the face. This is the time of year I just hate. I never took an accounting class in high school or college. Numbers and I are not friends (unless I’m spending money). The tedious nature of book keeping is not something I ever thought I would do outside of managing my personal checkbook. So, dealing with gathering tax information for the business is a big pain in my ass. Mind you, most of it has been kept up to date this year: all the books are reconciled through end of November this time around and I have even pulled the bank records for last year and moved them to their archive binder for storage. Still, I have six months of back receipts to enter for credit purchases (yes, I know, I am lazy) before I can burn a copy of the books and send it off to the CPA. I am hoping to get those done by this weekend so all I have left to deal with is waiting for the W-2s and 1099 forms to arrive.
I have to say that I don’t know how those that run businesses without the help of professionals manage the task. They are far more number minded than I could ever hope to be. My mother did this for she and my father for YEARS as they ran their restaurant. My grandmother did all the books and tax information for the many business ventures my Grandfather ran for their entire married lives (67 years) with only a look over by a CPA or lawyer during the final 20 thanks to nutty changes to tax law.
At any rate, this means that I have little time to write or even think about writing. Since I have original work on the table that needs to be addressed, this becomes a little problematic. Thankfully, deadlines are “soft” and I have a couple of weeks for outlines before I have to do tough editing work. This is also helpful because my mother will be back from her winter in Florida. My mother is a fantastic editor when it comes to spelling and commas. Her husband isn’t bad either. This means I can write, edit, write, edit, then pass to her for an outside eye before it leaves me for view by “professionals.” It’s my own personal beta for my real stuff. Certainly, there are some stories and content I don’t think I would want her to check over lest it make her squicky. _
So, expect only sporadic updates until the end of January. At that time I hope to get back to work on the reorganization of the website. I’m doing it “offline” and saving it to my external drive so I can get everything organized and as I like it then upload it wholesale. However, as I get things finished I am taking quite a lot of the content down from the server now. Much of it will not return at all thanks to a new “separation of powers” between my writing, photography, and personal bloging concerns. The content, if moved for copyright reasons, won’t have redirects either so if you find something you enjoyed missing you should try sending me an email and I can point you in the right direction or tell you that it’s gone for good.
Now that I’ve procrastinated the bills and receipts for another twenty minutes, time to get to work. Hope life is going well for all of you and I’ll try to keep in touch! Don’t forget, I don’t have comments running here right now but you can always drop a line. If you’d like to see comments return you can tell me that too.
