A Little Salt on Your Words, Madam?

 I had to eat some words lately...swallow some pride! I found that a dash of salt (preferably around a margarita glass) makes those nasty things go down just fine. Sit back, grab your coffee and let me walk you back a few days/weeks.

Remember the post about the Holy Grail of Checking that I did a while back (Just Checking)? I have been faithfully tending to, updating and monitoring the the massive parting gift that my Honey left me before departing this Country. Even from a far, Pook has kept up the SAME spreadsheet - I know he's doing it JUST to make sure I'm doing it right... surely it can't be because he's OCD (nah...couldn't be that).

A few nights ago Rich & I were Skyping.....
Pook: How much was the bill to get the AC fixed?
Me: $425. I used one of your checks. (you didn't think I'd use MY account, did you?)
Pook: What was the check number? I'll bet it was 27XX? (he's looking at his spreadsheet)
Me: Nope...it was #32xx. I could find where you hide put your checkbook, so I got another out of the box. Wait...what are you doing? Are you updating the spreadsheet?
Pook: Duhhh Yeah.
Me: I saw you had a balance on your credit card...I transferred money to pay it off.
Pook: Oops... I did the same thing - so, we've double paid it. Oh, well..there's a big credit there then.
Me: Look, Pook... either I do the money or YOU do the money. We both can't or crap like this happens! You trust me to do it or your don't! We BOTH can't run around paying the same bills! (rant, rant, rant)
Pook: I know....I trust you...hey, make sure you let me know how much the ___ bill is when it comes in.
Me: I will NOT! Don't you have a War to deal with? (Jeezz)

A couple of days ago....
I'm sitting at my computer...updating the spreadsheet...checking things out. I've thrown down the gauntlet so now I had to deliver! (Closed spreadsheet). Thinking to myself... "Self, you've got too much crap on your desktop. No wonder you can't find anything.. look, TWO links that's titled "Renee" (one holds the banking file from Pook). So - I start deleting shortcuts and renaming some to better serve my needs!

(NOTE TO SELF: If you do a right-click on the shortcut and move down to "Rename", just above it is a little word called "Delete").

I deleted the Holy Grail of banking records!!!! (uuhhh noooo...it wasn't saved on my computer)

If you've just gasp and put your hand over your mouth and uttered the words: Oh, HELL No! .... you'd be doing the exact thing I did.

The next day......
Pook: Hey Babe...what's new?
Me: Oh, not much. (I let the conversation play for a few minutes).
Me: Babe, you remember when YOU put "THE SPREADSHEET" on my desktop? (I tried to make it sound like it was his fault; see my angle here?) Well, I ...blah..blah..deleted it on accident....
Pook: (a smile spread slowly across his twinkling eyes) You did? Good thing I've kept my spreadsheet up.....it's perfectly accurate.
Me: Was that a smirk? It's not nice to gloat! Can you send it to me?

Today.... I got "the spreadsheet" this morning! I'm sooooo sure that I'll hear about this for a long time! Damn spreadsheet!

Love, Peace & Happy Friday!