My Promised Guaranteed Income Supplement Has Arrived at Last!

It is already after 7:00 p.m., so I have no time to blog. I failed to discharge more than half of today's content assignment this early a.m. for the post I am putting together at one of my six hosted websites, so I had to complete that task this afternoon.

I also sunned this afternoon ─ just over an hour in total.

Add to that at least 70 minutes back in bed for a nap, and then a post at my private blog...and the afternoon just drained away.

My younger brother said that he was going to visit his friend Greg in Langley this afternoon, so I fully expect that I will be getting to bed early this evening and avoid what will likely be my brother's late homecoming.

I have not shirked on the performance of my daily plank ─ I have been enduring a daily five-minute plank since June 24; and now for three consecutive days I have extended my time and thus performed a 5½-minute plank on each day.

I also had the day's scheduled shed exercising.  

So it has been a somewhat full day; but I have been courting the onset of a headache all day due to inadequate sleep, and also due to unavoidable eyestrain.

My wife went to work, of course, leaving here just after 10:30 a.m. for her drive to her friend's Thai restaurant in order to make her 11:00 a.m. start there. If I get to bed early enough this evening, I may well manage some sleep before she arrives home following her long workday.

I have just checked my chequing account to see if my monthly pension has been deposited, for I have essentially been skint since Friday and unable to do any shopping ─ the pension income is there.

But more ─ I have finally received the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) that a letter dated May 22 had stated I had been approved for. The payment includes a fair backlog, so the deposit made today is probably around $1,500 or more larger than my normal pension would have been.

This is incredible news for me ─ I now do not have to worry about the annual property taxes that are due July 2. Nevertheless, I will salt away the additional money so that my wife and her two working sons will not be able to think that they have a free pass and can avoid making any contributions.  

I have some photos to finish off this post with, beginning with this three-image collage that Google Photos automatically created today as a commemoration of this same day back on June 26, 2013 (exactly six years ago):

  

 All three photos are of my wife, and were taken here in our backyard.

These are the three original photos, beginning with the left column:

She has a cast on her right arm after partying too hard in some nightclub downtown in Vancouver ─ I think that she must have lost her balance and taken a fall that damaged her wrist or forearm. I never really knew the extent of the damage, but I suspect that if it was her forearm, then there may only have been a bone crack as opposed to a complete break.

However, my wife is rather secretive about these matters, and does not herself have that clear an understanding of medical matters due to English being her second language.