Back on the Grid

The cause of overtime... so many invoices to enter and pay.

Lately I feel like I've been off the grid.  Things got crazy at work in February, but were supposed to be better in March... except then they got crazier... and stayed crazy in April.  But hopefully May will be looking up!  Our Accounts Payable left the beginning of March and when we finally got her replacement, she was basically awful.  She didn't last long.  And she made us more behind than when we were down one person.  At that point I decided that I should take over Accounts Payable and we have a new Accounts Receivable/Purchasing starting this next week.  Fingers crossed that she works out and there will be no more overtime weeks ahead!!!

My boss brought me daffodils from her house.  She appreciated my hard work and overtime hours 

March was also sharing time for me and holy cow, it is hard to plan a lesson to entertain and teach a whole primary!  But I feel like my lessons went really well. My favorite one was probably my Time Machine with visitors that were Witnesses of Christ's resurrection. 

The awesome time machine I made.

It was pretty epic and the kids absolutely loved it.  And I got to let my visitors do all the talking so win win win. 

Some of my Witnesses.  They even dressed in costumes I brought.  Such good sports!   Thank you missionaries and Mataus!

In March we of course we had our 4 year anniversary, which deserves it's own post as well as everything else that went on.  We had a pretty good St. Patty's day, Easter, Dustin took boards, we had a Lincoln City weekend beach trip, and more dates of the month. 

Good thing I'm back on the grid so I can catch up on blogging and catch up on stalking everyone else's blog. 

Slowly but surely I'll get there.  We're still alive.  We're still having fun.  We're still busy as ever.

Stay tuned.

Working girl

I know many people have been wanting to know about my new job and how it's going. Well... it's awesome!

The company I work for is called the House of Antique Hardware. They are an online store that sells, well, antique hardware. You can find their website here. I think my official title is Bookkeeper, but I work in the Accounts Receivable side of Accounting, which basically means that I get to take people's money. :)

I start my day with a sales audit report, which means I get to reconcile all the payments from each payment method (Visa/MC/Discover/Amazon/PayPal) for the previous day and make sure that what our payment processor said we made matches up with what our database says we made. After everything matches up, I make the deposits for each payment method into the proper account.

Then I work on billing... charging payments for each order that is ready to leave the warehouse for delivery to the customer. And billing takes up most of my day. Once billing is done, I work on doing refunds and other various things as needed. I'm still being trained on the other various things as I get faster at doing the billing portion :)

Something that is really nice about working with this company is that very rarely do we have a payment not go through. That was something that was so frustrating at StoresOnline--we had some really crappy customers! But at the House of Antique Hardware, our customers are contractors or designers, people with clients and business, and their payments actually go through. It makes my job SOOO much easier.

The people that I work with are very nice. My boss even bought me a little gift for my birthday- a mug and two boxes of hot chocolate with a little happy birthday balloon and card. She must have picked up on the fact that I don't drink coffee, which is a dominant smell in the office. Hahaha. It's definitely different working in a company where I am the only LDS person.

I got my first paycheck last Friday and even though it was only for a partial week (from the week I started), it was so awesome to know we're going to be getting money on a regular basis! That was the first real paycheck we've had in 4 months! Also, I love that Oregon pays SO much better than Utah. Seriously awesome.

I do miss the little daily things I was able to do when I was home all day, like reading my scriptures and keeping the house clean. Of course those are still things I need to do, but it's been a lot harder to keep up on everything because I am always so TIRED when I get home. I'm so glad I have a husband that is so good at picking up my slack around the home, even if he's been at class all day.

I am so grateful that I have a job with this growing company and it will be great working there!