Taxes, The Happiest Place on Earth and Special Requests…

I finally decided to sort out my taxes. For the first time since becoming an employee, I regretted it!  I can’t believe how much of a tax hit you can take when you are most of the year as an employee and a few months as a contractor.  I won’t go into details about my actual tax owing but I can tell you, a glass of wine was definitely needed! I am hoping that the government looks at it and finds out I figured something wrong.. hoping hoping hoping! So much for having a savings account… sigh! So it is Friday morning.. which in general seems to make people a little happier.. it is spring too, so that helps.. but this morning, Lauren and I were at Tim Hortons and it seemed like the happiest place on earth! It is ‘roll-up-the-rim’ time and so the long Timmies line-ups are generally … Read More

The Cubicle…

It is an interesting dynamic moving from an office to a cubicle. Granted my office space was shared so my real estate wasn’t reduced by much but the walls came down and that is where things are different.  I feel somehow liberated.  Even though I am more exposed now… my privacy non existent, I am somehow more organized.  It is like being forced to scale down and taking down the walls has made me think about my space more efficiently.  I remember this now from when I was in a call centre working as a phone rep.  Everything had a place.. albeit a small one.. but things were orderly.  The occasional rep had a horrible mess for a desk but in general, things were tidy.  I have been getting teased though.  Apparently by moving in my gumball machine and multiple photos of friends and family, I have made the place … Read More