Freedom comes at a high price and that price is the fact that the things you’ve avoided doing creep up on you all of sudden. Case in point – checking Vero’s taxes. Woops! I’ve been putting that off and I had forgot that they were due today since she owed the Government some money.
After work I headed to her house and we tackled the taxes. She had already done the run-through and after a few visits to the CRA website for clarification, she owed a cool 7% of what she made last year. Not too shabby at all. Thank tuition for that my friends. She ended up setting up an electronic payment through her bank so it was easy enough to send the money to CRA.
After that was all done, I played around with the guitar as Troy had suggested I lower the key to 705 from E to A. It was going well until I hit one chord change and the vocals did not line up at all. I tried a few other times but it was hard to wrap my head around changing a vocal line I loved so much. So I will keep trying and Troy and I will hook up via phone to hash it out and see what we can come up with.
Vero made this amazing meal – spaghetti squash. It was some squash cut in half with spaghetti sauce over it and some cheese melted over the top. It was much like spaghetti in the fact that you just took your fork into it and the squash came out in strands like noodles. I enjoyed it although it was a little too much as there was a side helping of more spaghetti sauce on the plate. We both realized it was a little too much for us to eat.
Mel, Vero and I then headed out to Gatineau to have a piece of cake for Marie-Claude’s birthday. We were also on the lookout for a mountain lion named Boomer which had been reported to have escaped near Maniwaki the night before. You can never be too careful where there’s a wild cat roaming around. (Sidenote: The lion was apprehended the morning after. No one was harmed in the process.)
We had a great piece of chocolate cake that Jean-Francois made and we watched the Canadiens game. After the heated game, Jean-Francois introduced me to a French called “Les Bougons” which is a show about a family who are on welfare and try and do everything to avoid paying for anything. It was quite funny and Jean-Francois actually appeared in the show! There was this scene where the son of the family wants to lose weight so he wraps himself in tin foil and sits in the sun. He then takes it off and looks into a mirror and Jean-Francois was the reflection! He did some muscle man poses which mimicked the actor’s mannerisms. It was quite hilarious. I love how Vero’s friends (and Mike and I: Soon to Be!!!) are on TV.
My three days of Freedom were great and I couldn’t have asked for a better time. When my course is over in the middle of June, I plan to make the most of the summer and have something planned every day. Even if it is just reading a book in the backyard with a beer. 😉
