well...most of you know that I work for a woman named Debbie. since last spring, i've worked for her doing various things. one of those things is helping her do the books for her business she owns. She is a lot like my mom in the sense that she is really computer illiterate. wow. i totally can not spell. anyway,

so she has done the books, for more than a year, now, in the old green and white ledger books...painstakingly, by hand.

oh yes

it takes FOREVER.

i've talked to her before about putting it on a computer - in Excel. but you know, being her employee and all, I can only push so hard.

and then came today. Her oldest daughter Molly was helping us do the books, and Molly happened to bring up the very obvious fact that it would be so much better if we could just have the books done on a spreadsheet. "Time is money, Mom." I was overjoyed, inwardly yelling for Debbie to listen to her daughter.

looooong story short, after much prodding and dressing up the reality of a computer based bookkeeping system - after much harpooning from both Molly and myself - Debbie declared that she might have to make it a Corona night (in order to swallow this huge pill of going in the unknown world of computer-ness for her precious business),...it was decided that the creation of the Excel document would commence.

*cue the applause*


So, Molly and I sit down at the ole laptop and pretty much hammer out the plan and basic format of the spreadsheet.

Molly is 24 and has a college degree.

And I ran circles around her on Excel.

BOOyah.

it is good to feel like I know how to do something valuable, friends.

So good.