coexistapart's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- London fog at Yonge & Eg Internet service here is a little slow, but only for loading high resolution sites that do not have their own apps. I paid my 2008 taxes yesterday, deposited several government cheques, some work for my cousin and exchanged dollars. I went to the post office to cash out the $400 USD money order I had done for Middlebury; however the clerk recommended I wait because I paid, like, $510 at 1.26 and yesterday sell ws 1.05 and buy 1.15 There is going to be a loss no matter which way you slice it: $90 now when the CAD is stronger and I can get more products or less, or lose no money at all to exchange later when I am paying a 20-35% markup on USD-priced goods. I have to pay my lawyer next week, so I suspect will need to cash this out before I leave. As if my week was not going badly enough, yesterday when I went to pickup the wiper parts we had ordered from the junk yard yesterday, I called Canadian Tire to see if the need to actually schedule the 2 hours labor to install the parts. This is when I learned that they had since found 3-4 other issues that would have to be remedied for the car to be provincially certified, to renew the insurance and the plates. We went from maybe $500 to talking $1500 all in to get the thing on the road. Speaking with Spoon it seemed as though so long as I could haul it NM I would recoup a lot of money/break even selling the thing for scrap parts, i.e. The work would be worth it to. I was getting all settled in this idea ans moving on when my cousin, Anthony, decided to do a 180 and change positions on the face of the car. Now he does not believe that he has put in enough money to warrant the car staying alive after I put money into it. I am frustrated only because I am trying to get to the point where I have something done. This is not exactly give me liberty or give me death, but I am feeling tied down and cut off; it is causing me stress. So this morning I wake up ealy to go line up at the consulate to get a student visa and the custodian reminds me it's shavuot (the Jewish version of the Pentecoste) so nothing is open. This now pushes me to actually be in Ottawa Monday morning to get my visa done in the next 2-3 days, or it forces me to wait until next Friday to do my visa here in Toronto and then not depart until after that. Today I have my heart on trying to get at least a little bit sorted. The only thing I can think to do is pay the current bill at the garage and get a cab to take my bags to storagw, and get my clothes and things out of storage for the next few days. I feel grungy from living out of a suitcase, and otherwise--so far--I do not have a plan. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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