I am an accountant's daughter

I just spent way to long attempting to balance our check book. Have you ever done this? I don't really know how long I worked on it but at least 30 minutes. Part of the problem is we pay a lot of bills online through our bank or paying with Paypal and then sometimes forget to write it in the check book. Also our church takes forever to deposit checks, so we have to look back through the ledger to make sure we didn't miss checking one. A problem this time was our gas and electric bills amounts were almost identical, only off 10 cents. Only one of these was written in our check book ledger and it was confusing to me at first because I only saw one of them in our statement, the first time going through it, and it was different amount than we had written in our check book....anyways.

This can drive me CRAZY when I can't get it to balance out! I go back through our check book and make sure we added and subtracted everything correctly. Double check our statement with the ledger, double check my mathematics in balancing the check book. In the past I used to be the one paying most of the bills so I knew if something was off it was probably my doing, now we both pay bills and it seems to becoming more difficult to "balance" the check book. This balancing is something Chad really does not do or he will give up if it doesn't balance out with our bank statement. Not me. I can not handle it not working out one way or another. I am an accountant's daughter. (but my Dad probably never has this problem! :) )