Financial Friday

That title is misleading. There is going to be much more to this Friday that just my finances. But it's probably the item that has been more at the forefront of my mind over the last few days. For instance, I am hosting a visit from our safety specialist today at work. No, it's not the Booj, although somehow he has got himself inextricably mixed up in safety over the last year or so with a couple of safety based jobs. I can only think back on my own experience with safety and fear the tedium that he must be sogging through with his process adjustments or whatever his daily tasks are. So safety is going to be on the burner today but it has required less lead up than the financial portion. (not demonstrated here though...hi yo!) It's tax season and for me it's a fun game of trying to piece together all the documents and receipts that are needed to win my taxes. I even have a coupon this year to get 20% off the cost of someone else doing it for me. I always get a "professional" to do my taxes for me, much like everything else, that way I have someone to hold accountable if it all fails. That and I've never been audited since I started doing it this way. I was audited twice as a University student when my taxes were not done by a "professional". So the tax thing is looming, not even happening today, just looming like a bank of dark clouds slowly traversing the vista in front of me. But it won't be a dark nor ominous experience, it should end up being, how much do I get back! Yes, I pump money into my RRSP for the sole reason of winning my taxes, added benefit of maybe winning my retirement too. I put in the same amount as last year and I got paid less overall I think so it will be neat to see what the Liberals vacuum out of my pockets to fund their stupid idiot moron nonsense. Then, I'll probably double my RRSP contribution to avoid such shortcomings next year. Also of financial significance is that I was all but promised to finally get my second estimate/quote today for finishing my basement. I don't know if I shared the absurdity of the first one with you, it was about $10,000 more than I felt reasonable, maybe $8k more to be fair. I sent it back with a request for itemization to see how they got to their oddly specific estimate number, nothing yet. So it's 2-1 for financial items over safety so far. Let's hope I am not injured or something to tie that score. Looking ahead to the weekend I have some moderate sized plans of cleaning individual rooms, one every four hours until the house is deep cleaned for the off-chance that I'll have a temporary roomie on Monday.