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CellarDweller:
Hiya BetterMost friends.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
Yup, we've had a blast of winter weather blow through my area today. It started about noon, and as of now, it's still lightly snowing. Overnight it's supposed to get warmer, and turn to rain, which will wash it all away, so no need to shovel. :)
Word started to spread that it could get bad ( we have about 3 inches) so people left the office to work from home when the snow started to really fall, and I was one of them. I'm glad I did. It was getting bad, traffic-wise, at that point, so I got home relatively easily.
Tomorrow is supposed to be bonus day, the day the bonus shows up in my account. :) We'll see how much I get, after taxes. LOL
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on February 20, 2019, 06:39:08 pm ---Yup, we've had a blast of winter weather blow through my area today. It started about noon, and as of now, it's still lightly snowing. Overnight it's supposed to get warmer, and turn to rain, which will wash it all away, so no need to shovel. :)
--- End quote ---
Lucky you're so nice, Chuck, or else I would have to exert all my energy to restrain myself from saying FU. :laugh: :laugh:
Not that I would ever do that. But I had to leave my car in the parking ramp downtown last night and get a ride home in a friend's SUV because I wasn't sure I'd be able to drive through the city streets, and knew for sure I wouldn't be able to park in front of my house without getting stuck.
So it stayed there, nice and sheltered, in the ramp where I have a monthly contract, so I didn't even have to brush it off in the morning. It worked out pretty well, actually.
Except that at home I had to tackle the sidewalk, the front walk, the porch, a path for the mail carriers to pass from house to house, and a space for Charlie to go out back where the snow isn't over his head. The fresh snow was at the top of my boots.
--- Quote ---Tomorrow is supposed to be bonus day, the day the bonus shows up in my account. :) We'll see how much I get, after taxes. LOL
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Good luck! :D
CellarDweller:
Hiya BetterMost friends.
Hope that everyone is doing well this weekend!
I stayed a little later at work Friday afternoon than usual. I am off Monday, and later in the afternoon on Friday I had some customer requests that came in. I didn't want them sitting around until Tuesday when I got back, so I stayed later to get everything done.
My bonus arrived on Thursday, and damn......a bigger chunk than I expected was taken by taxes. Oh well. I still had a nice credit to my account, so I did what I needed to with it (bulked up my Christmas club and savings account for the new car purchase in May/June) and now everything is done.
March is a 3 paycheck month, so I'll be budgeting carefully so I can get more into the savings for the new car. :)
Sunday is an Oscar party that I'm going too, so I need to get my laundry done earlier than usual, and have to run out to buy cupcakes for the party.
brianr:
I just checked my NZ Government Superannuation Payment is Tuesday and I get 3 payments in April.
More important for me is my Private Superannuation payments whichI have chosen to be every 3 months. The complication is they are paid into my Australian bank.
Usually I leave it there and use my Australian Mastercard when travelling but this year I have to pay for my hernia operation here in NZ. I have the money in NZ but it would leave me with only a little for anything else that might come up. So on Wednesday I sent an email to the company (World Bank Australia branch) that gives a good exchange rate and asked them to buy and transfer NZ$10,000.
I had not used them since 2016 so got a phone call (I was in a museum). Could not understand much with my hearing and her Chinese accent and it got worse when a group of children came up near me at the exhibits.
When I got home there was an email and I had to send a photo of my new passport (now 3 years old), also a photo of a utility notice confirming my address (We do not have those anymore but I sent a council rates notice) and give the reason for sending money.
Got another phone call (this time at home and a good Aussie accent) but they still got confused and asked for Au$10,000 which bought NZ$10,214 but I decided to leave it at that. Surprised it was in my NZ bank by Thursday evening, use to take longer. However the exchange rate was only 1.0214. I was very lucky when I moved here in 2010 and sent over Au$300,000 to buy my house and the exchange rate was 1.3, even in 2016 it was over 1.1.
Sason:
What's a christmas club?
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