I had such fun today.  Not.

One of the things I like the least is preparing financial reports.

I discovered a letter from one of my supporting churches in an envelope where it had been hidden since right before Christmas.  In it I was informed that I needed to turn in an financial report for 2008 plus a budget for 2009. It was due on January 31st!  Yow!

So I went to my treasurer’s house so I could get the Whirlwind checkbook.  I spent hours inputing data from that into an Excel spread sheet.  I keep up with the donation and daily expenses on our visa card, but I don’t input the checks that are written.

Spent about four hours compiling all that information.

I mentioned I had a new Iphone.  I’ve really enjoyed it, but I’ve been working through over 2,000 contacts in my Outlook database!  I had no idea I’d met that many people!  There was some repetition between entries and others that just listed people by their email address=com as a last name.

I’ve probably spent ten hours over the last couple of nights wading through all that stuff.

Can’t say I’m done, but I’m certainly further down the road!

Pray for my tired eyes!