I have so much going on right now I can't think straight anymore!
Most of you already know business has been terribly slow for us, which affects us financially. We've barely been getting by so my husband has been pushing for me to do sales. This is something I do NOT want to do to begin with but I understand the need for it so all I can do is try. Before I will even attempt I told him we had to have a website, something we should have had long ago. So I've been working on a website for what seems like forever now. I can't just concentrate on it as I have other daily duties in the office.
Extension for taxes is up October 15th which means I was supposed to have all our info for 2008 to the accountant by September 15th. Well that has come and gone and I still have statements to go through, checking records against what's in the computer, the list goes on..... This is still not done.
Since April we have been fighting a Worker's Comp claim for someone that did CONTRACT work for us. How this person even got past filing for it is beyond me. We've been to see a hearing officer three times for appeal. Well apparently even after evidence presented shows all the facts of him working as a contractor they still are allowing the claim. Ok, I got over it initially, just a few doctor bills that will come out of our BWC account that we pay into. Well this person seems to be dying from a simple accident. Just received notice this person is asking for additional allowances on the claim. Basically looking for more medical treatment which of course is going to add more to his already ridiculous claim. We are talking about a soft tissue injury that heals on it's own in six weeks, longest 8 weeks. Something my two year old daughter could suffer from falling off her bike! Last I spoke with the lady at BWC she doesn't even know how it got this far and told me basically there's no rhyme or reasoning to their judgements. So basically this Fruit Loop can just continually make claims and keep going to the doctor for an injury my 2 year old could have handled better.
My oldest daughter has been home sick all week. She was sent home Monday with a fever and a bad cough. They can't go back to school until they are fever free for 24 hours so that automatically meant she couldn't go to school Tuesday. Wednesday she still had a fever. Called the doctor and they couldn't get her in until today. At first they thought she had pneumonia but it turns out her lungs were clear. They diagnosed the flu. We lost our insurance in June of this year and I had been getting qoutes for it. Everything we were quoted was incredibly high considering we are all healthy, no illness, no routine meds so needless to say I still haven't found insurance for us which means the visit today is self pay. The doctor did change the Level visit so it didn't cost me as much, not that I had it to begin with but my daughter's sick. They wouldn't test for H1N1- they said she really isn't sick enough to bother testing, which is good, but because I am self pay and the test is $800 they wouldn't do it. They have a no test policy unless your sick enough to be hospitalized. At least that's a bit of relief. If she is still running a fever come Monday she has to go back.
Just when I didn't think things could get worse....
My husband called me as he was getting loaded to tell me we are getting AUDITED for 2007 by the IRS. We have receipts and I keep everything well organized so really it shouldn't be a really big deal but it's the time it will take and finding stuff packed in boxes from 2 years ago. Beyond that I handle EVERYTHING in the office, it is only me and they won't deal with me of course because they are his taxes.
I feel like I need to curl in a ball, hide under the covers and come back out in a year! This isn't everything that goes on day to day obviously but it seems everything has hit at once. I wonder if the Good Lord above is testing our marriage for our 1st anniversary! I have not been sleeping at night very well because I start to think of all this. I keep asking what in the world did we ever do to deserve all this!
Ok I didn't mean for this to be so long but I guess I needed to vent!