Since last weekend, I have been struggling with creating my monthly budget.  Since I’m in the middle of getting my paycheck and hiring issues settled, I can only make a budget based on my best guess of a monthly salary.  I get paid by the hour, so my earnings vary mercilessly depending on my attendance and punctuality.  It shouldn’t be too hard to control, but things happen.  I may oversleep, get caught in traffic, forget to clock back in from lunch, or get sent home for the day (too many employees and not enough business).  There may be a way to have only certain parts of my budget fluctuate in response to my variable earnings; I’ll take a break from editing my spreadsheets for now.  It took me too long to get them this perfect in the first place.

That reminds me of something.  Maybe the reason why I’ve had to edit my budget forms is because I’ve been working in two different applications on my laptop.  I know it helps that I have to check and recheck to make sure all my data balances right (I’m so grateful, because all my hard work would have been absolutely wrong), but the process is rather annoying when I have to go through everything to find one tiny mistake or miscalculation.  Well, it’s a work in progress; Dave Ramsey did mention that it would take a while for me to perfect this whole budget process.  I think it will be worth it in the end, because I already see my money from a different perspective.  It’s like I know what’s going to happen to it now!!  You have no idea how soothing that fact is for me.  Ahhhh…