I went to the market yesterday morning and bought some fresh asparagus, snow peas and organic broccoli.  I’ve been craving fresh greens and have eaten a lot of them the past two weeks.  Yesterday I got on the scale for the first time in a week and I was down five pounds!  Wow, and without trying, I like that.  I even bought a rotisserie chicken and ate that for 3 days.  I avoided starches while I had my head/chest  congestion, so that likely caused the weight loss.  I don’t even think about my weight now, which is cool. It took a couple of years of consciously eating the things that are best for me to develop my new eating habit, b ut now it’s second nature.   I’ve been wanting a lot of light vegetable soups lately, and I make a small one or two serving soup at a time so I can have a different one each day.

With the March Horizons Magazine now out, my job for yesterday was to balance my personal checkbook.  I have gotten much better the past couple of years in that I remember to log in my entries at the time they are made, and I no longer round up my check amounts and round down my deposits in the check register.  I generally know within a hundred dollars or so what I have in the account.  But for the past two months my bank statements have shown me to have over $1,000 more than I thought I had.  I kept waiting for checks to clear and it wasn’t until yesterday morning that I actually sat down to look at it.

Now the Horizons checkbook I balance every two weeks, but I only use the Andrea account for my personal bills and utilities, so it doesn’t get as much action.  I could see some months I’d checked off in the register and some I didn’t, so I went back to June 2009 and balanced my checkbook forward.  The online balance said $1,700.  My register said $160.  I only had $550 in checks outstanding.

I found I made deposits that I didn’t log into the register. I’m glad it was in my favor, but I’m not sure how I could have gotten that far off.  When I make a deposit to that account, it’s because I have bills to pay, and that’s the amount that gets transferred into it.  It’s not like $1,000 is a drop in the bucket to me, that’s a chunk of change.  I’d notice if I missed paying $1,000 worth of bills right quick.  Why wouldn’t I notice that the deposits hadn’t been logged in to the register?  I stuck the overage in the savings account as overdraft protection, just in case.

I can’t imagine how I made those big glaring errors without realizing it. Well, yes I do, working without enough sleep for weeks at a time maybe. I’ve been sleeping more the past couple of weeks and it really feels good to lounge around for hours longer than I usually do.  I figure my body will sleep when it needs to, but I admit when I take an extra 4 hours to sleep each day I feel lots more alert and energetic and on the ball.  Usually I sleep 4 hours twice a day.  Right now 6 hours at night feels good.

I guess the lesson in balancing my personal checkbook had to do with me balancing my personal energy resources, meaning sleep as well.  It’s nice to have a lot stored up for when you need it later.  Dollars and sleep.  And nice to know there’s a surplus in case I need it.

Andrea

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