Leaky pockets

OK I've finally done my accounts again for the first time in more than a month. My credit card and cash accounts are nicely balanced, but according to Microsoft Money, my checking account is $200 less than what sanity and Chase.com say it should be. The virtual money went MIA some time in June - I've traced some of it to MS Money downloading the same transaction twice in several instances, especially for cash, but I'm really baffled. I've looked through my checkbook several times and can't find any checks unaccounted for, so I'm sure it's not some long-forgotten check ready to bite me in the backside (that happened a couple of times during my freshman year of college when I was new to the world of having more than $5 per week pocket money).

Remember my New Year's resolution to match all spending on non-essentials with donations to secular humanitarian and Christian organizations? I'm still trying to decide whether or not to include the $400 I spent on my stolen bicycle in that. =(

If I do, I have no hope of keeping that resolution. If I don't, I'm doing pretty well.

Still have to match spending on the cat with donations to animal welfare and wildlife conservation though...Princess Hairball got some vaccinations and heartworm preventative in May that cost quite a bit.

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I'm still sad about the bicycle, and I still look at all the bicycles I pass every day to see if one might be mine.