financial consultant. at 9 years old.

[sarah_j_powell]

it's 8:00 a.m. too early to show up to work on a tuesday. okay, too early for me to show up to work any day. at least until i graduate. when i arrive on tuesday's and thursday's to work, i usually sit here for awhile and try to wake up. but today, i looked over at the phone sitting at my desk, and i started pressing the numbers. sure, the reciever was hung up, but i wanted to press the buttons. immediatley i had a flashback to my childhood.

i had an overactive imagination growing up- and for some years, an overactive financial imagination. when i was about 9, i created my own business- in which the extent of the false profits and elaborate details never left the boundaries of my room. but if they had, and if what i pretended to sell was real, you better believe i'd be a rich woman now. not because i had a great product, but because i kept track of my profit records like there was no tomorrow. the IRS would have been proud.

it was Sarah's Bakery. if that isn't funny, i don't know what is.

and i made the best fake baked goods.

usually, a little girl would pretend to bake, but no. my enjoyment came out of the financial organization of the company, making sure that i didn't go in debt, and that funds were sufficient for the week. alright, perhaps i exaggerate a tad, but, i sure did love to keep a financial record. in fact, i loved it so much, i sold half my company to a girl named stephanie(she was real) so i can focus more on finance and she took care of logistics(that's what my dad did for UPS, so i knew a thing or two). and then became:

S & S Bakery. the world famous. kinda.

and that's where the phone comes in.

i would call "customer's" and have them put in fake orders as i wrote up their ticket, placed it in my files and continued on with the account and profit sharing. and so, this morning, by just pressing the button on the phone, i was brought back to those crazy childhood days sitting inside, crunching numbers.

it's funny that the smallest thing can trigger such a grand memory.