arghhhhh.

that's a pretty good explanation for yesterday morning, well into the afternoon. see, i've had my own business for 3 years now, and have been doing my bookkeeping the old fashioned way. by hand, keeping invoices and stuff in big files. i blame it on quickbooks. when i first started, i bought quickbooks and could not handle the tutorial. it was boring and had lots of numbers in it and was taking wayyy too long. plus, downloading all that crap onto a computer takes forever. so i just...didn't. one of the many downfalls of having an instant gratification brain that requires constant entertainment and frequent changes of scenery. quickbooks schmickbooks.

then this year, i decided to go forward with a resolution to be more responsible about stuff like money, taxes and the possibility of an irs audit. so, i dusted off the old quickbooks box and gave it another shot. two hours later i had all my accounts in place and had made my first quickbooks invoice. when i tried to email it out to my client, i was told by the computer that my quickbooks version was outdated and would need to be updated. so i bit the bullet on the upgrade and started over. which meant re-downloading and going through the whole tedious, more-painful-than-plucking-my-eyebrows-out process. FINALLY, i have it all put together. except that my invoices will not email out, i can't seem to track my vendor expenses and i'm not sure how to save my invoices into my working files.

arghhhhhh.

i hate dealing with anything that takes more than three minutes. the old file and paper system looks pretty good to me. i know how to run a pencil, and can throw an invoice into a file in about 1 second. really, i think all you people are going backwards. technology is eating away your time, not making life more convenient. just take this blog for example.... :)