This is Tuesday..........

My Hellish Wednesdays from Ruby Tuesday have turned into Tortuous Tuesdays with TGI Fridays. 

 (Say that a thousand times!)

I was so incredibly proud of myself while attending BHSU and NAU taking 5 different accounting classes and passing at the top of my class.  I even had my accounting instructor ask me to submit my resume for an accounting position underneath her in the large company she worked for.  I had such high hopes and great confidence in my statistical, financial, and mathematical skills.  That was about 7 years ago....and my brain has apparently "left the building" and turned to mush.

Over the last month I have come home frustrated and down right angry at myself for not being able to make sense of my new restaurant's General Ledger, P&L, and accounting procedures.  I keep telling myself take it easy, one of these days it will click

But it didn't - and today I was fired.....

No, I'm just kidding, I wasn't, but that has been the feeling hanging over my head the last few months.  I just want to see it, learn it, and understand it all in one day and I guess it doesn't happen like that.......until today!

 It took one phone call from my boss to ask a few financial questions from month end reports when I realized I had nothing.  Not even a guesstimate, or an educated thought to make him believe he had chosen the right gal for the job.  I'm sure he thought to himself, "why again did we hire her??"

He was very kind and while I stumbled over some hard questions, he was meanwhile emailing me all the explanations I needed.  He kindly asked about my family's arrival and acted excited that they would soon be here, but all I felt was utter defeat and how in the world was I going to pull this whole GM thing off.  I've done it for years, why was this so hard?????

Back to my lonely 4 walled apartment I began to dissect reports, monthly ledgers, P&L critiques, Plans and Budgets, Prior Year Sales............and guess what........it happened.  I got it.  I quickly wrote down thoughts as not to forget them by morning, then I was so excited I started writing numbers breaking down more numbers and making goals that seem realistic

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Did a little jig in my living room to my own music in my head - wrote my boss a little Hallelujah and thank you email for his patience and capped it off with tator tots for dinner.

I'm looking forward to getting in my office tomorrow - crunching some numbers - and making sales happen.  For Tomorrow Is Another Day!