Three blogs in one week! Either I’m on a roll or work is slow this week. OK, I won’t lie; work is very slow this week! We have a four-day weekend coming up since Good Friday and Easter Monday are Public Holidays in Sweden. Actually, it seems like almost everyone decided to take today off as well, this place is nearly a ghost town!
I had planned on sticking out the day, but I’m starting to rethink things. The rethinking mainly started about 30 minutes ago when I hit my head on a shelf in my office. I was bending down and then stood up fast, not thinking about the evil shelf looming above me. The corner slammed into my forehead, it was so hard I think I was really close to blacking out! I took some Tylenol, but it still hurts and I can feel the bump already starting to grow…
So the pain, combined with the fact that I really don’t have much to do, also combined with the fact that once I leave I can start my long-weekend, has made me reconsider my decision to stay until 5. A free afternoon is starting to sound really good! I have been coming in at 7:30am for the past two weeks, that’s gotta count for something!
Yesterday was a good day. First I won two tickets to Universeum in a company drawing. (Universeum is a hands-on science museum here in Gburg that I’ve heard is really cool.) Then I went home, talked to P, and found out that the yearly car service that we need to do will cost much less than we had anticipated. And finally, I got my Swedish tax declaration in the mail and found out that I’m getting a big fat refund! Enough to cover our hotel room at the SAS Radisson in Beijing, woo-hoo!
BTW, I should take a moment to praise the Swedish Tax Declaration system. You basically get your declaration in the mail, all filled out and finished, and all you have to do is sign it and send it back! Then your refund magically shows up in your bank account (or if worse comes to worse, you have to pay!) Anyway, why can’t it be that simple in the US? I spent 40 minutes on the phone with IRS last week trying to figure out how to declare my foreign income to the US. The person with whom I was speaking was obviously reading from a script.
Whatever, those are my thoughts for the day. One more hour and I’m out’a here, I think that the Tylenol is starting to kick in
I had planned on sticking out the day, but I’m starting to rethink things. The rethinking mainly started about 30 minutes ago when I hit my head on a shelf in my office. I was bending down and then stood up fast, not thinking about the evil shelf looming above me. The corner slammed into my forehead, it was so hard I think I was really close to blacking out! I took some Tylenol, but it still hurts and I can feel the bump already starting to grow…
So the pain, combined with the fact that I really don’t have much to do, also combined with the fact that once I leave I can start my long-weekend, has made me reconsider my decision to stay until 5. A free afternoon is starting to sound really good! I have been coming in at 7:30am for the past two weeks, that’s gotta count for something!
Yesterday was a good day. First I won two tickets to Universeum in a company drawing. (Universeum is a hands-on science museum here in Gburg that I’ve heard is really cool.) Then I went home, talked to P, and found out that the yearly car service that we need to do will cost much less than we had anticipated. And finally, I got my Swedish tax declaration in the mail and found out that I’m getting a big fat refund! Enough to cover our hotel room at the SAS Radisson in Beijing, woo-hoo!
BTW, I should take a moment to praise the Swedish Tax Declaration system. You basically get your declaration in the mail, all filled out and finished, and all you have to do is sign it and send it back! Then your refund magically shows up in your bank account (or if worse comes to worse, you have to pay!) Anyway, why can’t it be that simple in the US? I spent 40 minutes on the phone with IRS last week trying to figure out how to declare my foreign income to the US. The person with whom I was speaking was obviously reading from a script.
Whatever, those are my thoughts for the day. One more hour and I’m out’a here, I think that the Tylenol is starting to kick in
1 comment:
You be careful! Hitting your head like that is not recommended, you know. I hope the bump goes away this evening and that you enjoy your four-day weekend. Happy Easter! Hello to P from me! Big hugs to you!
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