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 much longer.. so we are in line and a man from near the front of the line offers his spot to trade with a woman at the back of the line who was toting around 2 small children. I think I can speak for everyone in the line-up when I say that we were all really impressed. He not only gave up his spot, but he influenced the entire line-up with his infectious friendliness. I think it ended up affecting the entire place because suddenly people were holding doors open for one another etc.. it was pretty cool and I am glad to have wittnessed it. In fact, I have really begun to lose faith in the Human Race. We have so many horrible people living on this planet. Our history is riddled with hatred and torture and murder.
It is really nice to know that somewhere on this little planet, on a tiny speck of land in Calgary… someone was kind!
Now it is lunch time… and I have been craving both egg and tuna salad sandwiches thanks to our catered lunch here at work yesterday. Anyone who knows me well, knows that I am a variety nut and often, when I can I will ask for as many variations and options as possible.
So I went to Marcellos and asked for a sandwich.. 1/2 tuna, 1/2 egg. So she starts to spread the tuna salad on a whole slice of bread and I try to explain that I want it spread on only half.. she doesn’t understand so she passes me on to another girl who claims to understand EXACTLY what I want. So she begins to spread the egg on another whole slice of bread… so now I am envisioning how this sandwich will taste. I can’t imagine it will be revolting.. so I just play along.. I get the lettuce and the cucumber and salt & pepper… Luckily she puts all the vegetables between layers.. and then folds it up and cuts it diagonally. She hands me a tuna & egg salad sandwich on white bread with lettuce, cucumber, salt & pepper. Hmmmm.. thanks! I brought it back to my desk… took a bite of the frankenwich… and its not THAT bad! As a matter of fact, I would consider eating something like this again sometime.. but my craving was for each sandwich individually. So I carefully separated the two halves, split the veggies evenly between them and ate them separately.