A Twitter Update

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Update

Just thought I would pop in and say things are going fairly well. We have quickly adopted our college budgeting system (except we have more free money then we did then) and things are sailing smoothly. Its funny how easy it is to adjust to making less money, I think imake1tgirl is much happier and in turn that makes our life much less stressful. I am definitely happier about our situation.

This week I am working at the City I actually live in, working on Single Audit planning. Its a new thing I am learning and its going smoothly (and already it looks like I will finish it with less budget then the fastest time before). I am also wrapping up the School District that was my first AIC. I have to do some edits and then we will conduct an exit interview with the entity.

Next week I start the county's financial statements. I am a little worried, its our biggest entity we audit and I am running the Financial Statement and CAFR audit for it. Although its a great learning experience and I am finding I do like my job. This is a rarity, out of the 50+ jobs (and that is not exaggeration) that I have had in the past, this is the first one that might be longer then a year I have worked at (there was one job that was 2.5 years, but it was a very part time web design job, so it doesn't really count). Of course this makes me a little nervous that the other shoe will drop, but I highly doubt they will lay me off :) especially with the recent promotion.

The only thing bad about all this new stuff I am learning and in charge of, is trying to study for the FARS section of the CPA exam. I have about 40 days left, and they say it takes about 140 hours to use the computer study program. Now I have read 1600 pages of textbooks for this already so it might not take that long (nor does it usually take me as long as average anyways), but it does have me worried I wont have time to study. I guess my life will be work, imake1tgirl time, study and gaming with not much more (although that is a lot anyways). Maybe I will do a count down for the studying like I did for tax season last year. Put it in a calendar and just do it. Ya I guess that is the best way to go.

I just need to not get stressed, and not worry about the passing rate. Although I appreciate those of you who have taken similar professional tests support, thanks :)