A Blonde Moment

Yesterday I was at work and was asked to enter the payment received from the underwriters. As I love doing accounting, I was happy to start on my task. There were many checks received, more than I had entered in a long time, and to make matters more frantic, the secretary is out of town for the week and she usually sorts everything out for me with the checks attached to their respective folders. I had spent about half the morning working on this task. One duty is to make 2 copies of each check, so I did that. Well, turns out, I put one check on the wrong account after I had turned my paperwork into the office manager. So, I went in and fixed the error, then made two seperate deposits to turn it. This time, the two weren't balancing. I was off $134.28. I was MISSING that much! Trying not to panic, I retraced my steps, looking all around my desk, on the floor and in the deposit envelope. Still nothing. I'm trying to look natural so that no one asks what's wrong. I can't very well tell anyone I have lost $134.28 that doesn't belong to me. Well, the franticity of my thoughts continued for a good 10 minutes or so. UNTIL, I went back to the copy machine to make a copy of something else. Low and behold, there it was. I had left the check on the copy machine. OOPS. I felt pretty darn retarted at the time.