organize my finances

We made some progress on this at the beginning of the year but we need to make another pass on it now.

For the second week in a row, I worked on my big business records management project during an auto race. Not quite a habit, yet, but getting there.

Rick: How’s the race?
Joy: I don’t know. I’m not really watching it.

This adventure may not turn me into an informed racing fan, but if it gets the filing done, I’ll be happy.

Made a call to the accountant with some questions and put everything in the appropriate files. Since I was handling all that stuff anyway and I don’t expect to be in my office much of the next two weeks, I went ahead and paid the estimated taxes, too.

I did a big chunk of a records management project that I’m working on for a business I’m associated with. It’s pretty boring-really just filing-and I’ve been procrastinating for weeks. What finally worked was to do it during the Indy 500 (wasn’t that an exciting race!). So I think I’ll note other race dates and try to work on it this summer on race days (I don’t have cable, so I can only watch races on the broadcast channels). All the following dates are from the NASCAR, IRL, and CART websites:

• June 4, Time Warner Cable Road Runner 225, CART

• June 12, Pocono 500, NASCAR

• June 19, Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland, CART

• June 29, Batman Begins 400, NASCAR

• June 26, Dodge/Save Mart 350, NASCAR

• June 26, Grand Prix of Cleveland, CART

• July 2, Pepsi 400, NASCAR

• July 10, USG Sheetrock 400, NASCAR

• July 10, Molson Indy Toronto, CART

• July 31, Michigan Indy 400

• August 7, Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, NASCAR

• August 14, Kentucky Indy 300

• August 14, Sirius Satallite Radio at the Glen, NASCAR

• August 21, Honda Indy 225

• August 28, Molson Indy Montreal, CART

• September 4, California 500, NASCAR

• September 22, Chicagoland Indy 300

• September 25, Watkins Glen Indy Grand Prix

• October 2, UAW-Ford 500, NASCAR

• October 9, Banquet 400, NASCAR

• October 15, UAW-GM Quality 500, NASCAR

• October 23, Subway 500, NASCAR

• October 30, Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500, NASCAR

• November 6, Dickies 500, NASCAR

• November 13, Checker Auto Parts 500, NASCAR

• November 20, Ford 500, NASCAR

This is a big project and not all of it is just filing, but surely with all of those races I will manage to finish it!