After my childhood friend gave me his old (2007 model) car back in January, I was given the full responsibility of maintaining a second hand car for the first time. Though I have been worrying and praying for safety every time before I drive the car, my friend Mr. Procrastination had been dragging me from getting the car checked and undergo maintenance… until last week. My newly met mechanic friend from church helped me change the fluids and replaced a head lamp, but the winter tires still couldn’t be replaced yet because the wheel lock and rims were still with my friend. Picked that up at my friend’s mom’s place on Friday and treated their family for dinner afterwards.
Some of my good friends seem to know Mr. Procrastination pretty well too. When I had lunch with a couple of high school friends a couple of weeks ago, they told me that they still hadn’t ask for permission from work to take a few weeks off for their family vacation that’s happening this week, and they had bought the tickets way back in January!
Besides car maintenance, I managed to tackle a few other tasks that had been burdening me for a long time. With much patience, I managed to (partially) unlock my CRA account after waiting more than half an hour on the phone and finally found out that I didn’t have any TFSA room for investment because I was a non-resident. Also managed to contact the bank of my business account and asked about the credit card application. After many minutes of investigation while I waited on the phone, the staff told me that there was “an error” on the credit card application last month and they had now reactivated the application and will expedite the process. Fortunately, or it may be God’s timing, the month long wait for the business credit card had turned into a self enhancement opportunity to learn about economics and investments, a topic I had been procrastinating to learn all my life.
While on a roll winning over Mr. Procrastination this past week, I finally started doing some gardening at home once again. And one of the good friends who will be off for family vacation for a few weeks just brought me the many plants from his place to look after. Seemed like he had undergone some serious procrastination to have that task completed!
Oh Mr. Procrastination, what will I do without you?!
