- Periodically, Canada Revenue likes to send me confusing letters. I think they do it just to mess with me. This weekend, I got a letter from them, indicating that I owed money … or maybe it was indicating that I didn’t owe money. The letter wasn’t very clear. This morning, I phoned Canada Revenue (despite being given the wrong number in the letter) and figured it all out. It turns out that the letter was sent for no reason at all. They already had the information that they were requesting, and no balance was owing. In fact, the whole issue was resolved months ago, but for some reason, it took a long time for the letter to reach me. At the end of the conversation, the agent told me that I could have put the letter in my shredder without opening it and there would have been no repercussions. If only I could do that with everything Revenue Canada sends me!
- OSAP has been dragging its feet, and sending me terrible, contradictory messages for weeks now, which have made me worry about whether or not I’ll have money for school. I finally got in touch with people from the McGill Financial Aid office and they told me that OSAP has figured out what to do with me after all, and that my OSAP might be in as early as Thursday of this week!
- My computer monitor has gone and died on me, but it’s under warranty. Today, I took it to the UPS store (as much as I hate UPS) and had it delivered back to the company that made it, to be fixed or replaced.
- I renewed my Québec driver’s licence, and went in to have my photo taken for the new one.
- I did three chapters of organic chemistry, and also reviewed two chapters of biology. I finished biology three weeks ago, but I’m going over it again, so I don’t forget.
- I did four loads of laundry.
- I made a delicious dinner.
- I even did the dishes.
I love the feeling at the end of days like this.
Pro-tip: Get a big white board and make a long to do list of everything you want to do that day (even inane things you do everyday) and erase each item from the board as you finish it. The white board method can make anything feel productive.
That’s a good one!
I like to use the Tasks list in my Google Calendar/Gmail. That way I can keep hundreds of tasks on my list, crossed-off, and it always looks like I’m almost done!