Check's in the Mail?

I am self-employed. I basically work when I want and how I want within reason. Today the office manger is reconciling the year's balance so she can begin working on the taxes for the company. (It is a smallish company. We bring in about $5 million a year.) So I was called over and asked if a check the company had given me for about $2000 had bounced.

I am horrible with keeping records. I am making a very concentrated effort to do better with my work expenses because I am up to my eyeballs in business debt right now. I do have my bank records, so when I go home I will find out if my company owes me $2000. For all I know, I lost the check and didn't notice. I get large sums of money in at once. I know this sounds lame and pathetic, but when the bank account goes from months of a negative balance to $12,000 then the next week $21,000 (and end the year back in the negative) you might not notice $2000. Well, at least I won't. Especially since at that time I was also trying to balance about seven escrows and headed off to Maui for a week.

Man! What a rough life! I'll let you know if I really missed the fact that $2000 never made it into my account.

P.S. This story is true. They all are. I really am just this lame.