🐴 Let’s Get Back Up on That Horse Together

It’s Q3, your books might be a little weird, and that’s okay. Let’s iron it out.

My last blog post is a smidge ironic in hindsight. While I’ve certainly kept up with the literal (less-metaphorical?) shouting into the void, when it came to my professional life I had to do some summertime pivoting in order to prioritize my current clients (xoxo) and health (having a body 👎👎👎) and put a pin in some of my bigger plans.

A Dedicated Slack Channel! My "Ask an Accountant" Office Hours! The Family Trip to Maine that we're putting off for the 12th year in a row!

And honestly? Sometimes “maintaining order” is the victory condition.
I kept my clients' plates spinning, my house mostly upright, and my plants… well, we don’t have to talk about my plants.

But now that things are steadier and the leaves are changing, school’s started, and my iron levels are approaching “functional human,” it felt like time to saddle back up.

[There's a joke here about a quarter horse, like, "it's a Q3 horse" that I don't know enough about horses to really pull off but I wanted to put out there anyway]

All that to say: if you have back-office busywork that has been similarly neglected, this is your sign that you’re not alone.

A Gentle Q3 Nudge

This time of year sneaks up on founders and freelancers alike. Maybe you’ve caught yourself saying things like:

• “I’ll reconcile after this next big project.”
• “It’s fine, I’ll clean it up before tax season.”
• “Wait, that’s what COGS means??”

I promise: you’re not behind, you’re just human. We all have quarters where survival outranks strategy.

Open your books. Take a peek. Don’t try to fix anything, just look.
Knowing what’s there (and what’s missing) is the first step toward getting your financial house back in order.

If it’s a mess, that’s fine. Messes can be cleaned.
If it’s caught up, you’re ahead of me.
If you don’t even know where to start, that’s literally what I’m here for.

What’s Next

I’ll be posting here more regularly again with tips, resources, and all the tools I've been accumulating in my drafts, plus I’m dusting off those plans for a newsletter, workshops, and Ask an Accountant office hours – small, accessible ways to get a reasonable portion of an accountant in your life, even if you’re not ready for a full-time pro.

So here’s to getting back on the horse — late, slightly off-balance and anemic, but still determined. May our debits equal our credits, our metaphors remain weirdly evocative, and our energy return in steady increments.

And if yours hasn’t yet, that’s fine.
We ride together, at whatever pace you can manage.