DAY
2 – Monday January 2, 2017:
Today, Brent went to work for a 9:00 am start, which
is later than his usual 7:00 am start.
Meanwhile, James and I slept in until about 10:00 am and then I made him
a breakfast of toaster waffles with butter and syrup. I made myself my usual coffee and some toast
with jam. After breakfast, I took a
quick shower and got dressed. I knew I had
to call Katina today at Travel Plus to tell her that Brent and James both need
travel health insurance, which I had neglected to get when I booked this trip
in November. Katina wasn’t in the office
since her office was closed today, but I was still able to call her cell phone. She promised me that she would do this task
for me first thing tomorrow morning. She
knows how imperative it is for travelers to have health coverage while out of
the country.
James had his assigned tasks to do at the same
time. He had to read his book, at least
a third of it this morning. It was
homework assigned by his teacher and his dad wanted him to do it today. Brent also wanted him to take out the
recyclables from the bin in the kitchen and bring them all outside, sort them,
and put them into the correct bins by the lane behind the house. On Wednesdays, the garbage and the
recyclables are collected from the main road for the neighbourhood, so they
bring theirs to the main road then for collection.
Later on, in the early afternoon, I made a grilled
cheese sandwich for James and gave him some orange juice to drink with it. I ate some yogurt and, for dessert, we each
had a Passion-Flakey pastry. We were
thinking of going for a walk across the now-frozen lake later on after James
played some of his video games, but I had started reading my book and fell
asleep upstairs on my bed. I don’t
usually sleep well at night, so napping during the day has become important to
me lately.
This week, I would like to apply online to the
Toronto District School Board’s web site for supply teaching on the Secondary
Panel. The TDSB head office had told me
to apply in January 2017. If I do enough
supply teaching this year, a maximum of fifty days usually, then I can make
about ten thousand dollars extra without impacting my pension payments. That’s money I could use for travelling in
the future and for using to publish a new book or publicize my existing two
books.
Everything costs money, as we all know, so I always want to make
sure I’m not spending money I don’t have and that I always a reserve stored in
TFSA Mutual Funds for the things I’m planning on doing. That’s tax-free money that can grow and keep
me going during rough times should there be any in the future.
I guess the only concern I have about working in
2017 is getting enough sleep the night before a supply teaching job. It’s been a struggle for me lately to get the
sleep I need, mostly due to arthritic pain.
However, I do try daily to get my self-assigned tasks done in the
afternoons so that I can relax in the mornings and the evenings while at home.
I’ve decided to write about my Christmas holidays that
I spent up here at Brent’s place as well as about this week’s activities while
I’m babysitting James. So, I spent some
time this morning and afternoon writing in my daily journal.
Brent called me this afternoon to see how we were
and everything’s fine. I asked him what
I should make for dinner for James and me since he is working late tonight, so
he suggested making soup and/or toasted tomato and bacon sandwiches. It’s not that he doesn’t have enough food
here; he just has to go grocery shopping to get refills of certain things, like
milk and English muffins, for example. Anyway,
Brent’s got the day off tomorrow (because he’s working late tonight) and he
decided to get ready for our trip next week by getting a necessary letter of
permission from Tori to take James down to the Dominican Republic for the week
of January 13 to 20, 2017. This is
imperative so that, at the Canadian border, the officers don’t think that James
is being kidnapped by Brent. (Don’t
laugh – this kind of activity sometimes happens between divorced / separated
parents who share children). A letter of
permission would ensure that there would be no hassle at the border when Brent
took James out of Canada for our vacation with Dave and me.
In fact, Tori had to do the same thing recently when
she and Jeff took James and a family friend down to Darien Lake, a resort in
Ohio, USA. As long as there was letter
of permission from Brent and a current passport for James, no problem. We all need passports these days, even if
we’re only going to the USA. Although it
wasn’t always like that, it’s been that way since the events of 9/11 and that’s
to assure the US government that they are not letting in criminals or
terrorists into their country and I can’t say I blame them.
copyright 2017 - Anne Shier
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