personal life administrivia
These past few days I've been attempting to catch up on miscellaneous... can you call it administrivia when it's about your own life instead of your job? Well, anyway, that kind of stuff.
So I have:
1. Applied for/been approved for a new credit card, which has a rewards program and no annual fee. Once I have it in my hands, I'm going to figure out how to close down one of my two current credit cards, which has no rewards and a $30 annual fee. That card was my first credit card, which I got through my bank when no other credit card company would take a risk on me (note to younger readers: GET A CREDIT CARD EARLY SO YOU CAN BUILD A CREDIT RECORD -- it is stupidly difficult to do this in your mid-twenties), so I've hung on to it out of a weird combination of habit and a sense of gratitude. But those are silly reasons to keep paying $30 a year for something another company will give me for free.
2. Renewed my PTIN, or paid tax-preparer ID number, with the IRS, so I am legal to do tax returns in 2020. And I sent the confirmation of that renewal to my local Not the IRS district management so they can get me activated in our company systems for the coming year.
3. Paid my rent.
4. Mailed a birthday card to my cousin on behalf of my parents, who are still in Italy.
5. Signed up to do some volunteer work at my church's annual Service Auction, and purchased two items I'd agreed to contribute to a tea-themed basket in the silent auction.
And a bunch of other stuff like that, you know? Just kind of going through my longer-term to-do lists and my email inboxes and dealing with the things I've let stack up for a couple weeks.
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So I have:
1. Applied for/been approved for a new credit card, which has a rewards program and no annual fee. Once I have it in my hands, I'm going to figure out how to close down one of my two current credit cards, which has no rewards and a $30 annual fee. That card was my first credit card, which I got through my bank when no other credit card company would take a risk on me (note to younger readers: GET A CREDIT CARD EARLY SO YOU CAN BUILD A CREDIT RECORD -- it is stupidly difficult to do this in your mid-twenties), so I've hung on to it out of a weird combination of habit and a sense of gratitude. But those are silly reasons to keep paying $30 a year for something another company will give me for free.
2. Renewed my PTIN, or paid tax-preparer ID number, with the IRS, so I am legal to do tax returns in 2020. And I sent the confirmation of that renewal to my local Not the IRS district management so they can get me activated in our company systems for the coming year.
3. Paid my rent.
4. Mailed a birthday card to my cousin on behalf of my parents, who are still in Italy.
5. Signed up to do some volunteer work at my church's annual Service Auction, and purchased two items I'd agreed to contribute to a tea-themed basket in the silent auction.
And a bunch of other stuff like that, you know? Just kind of going through my longer-term to-do lists and my email inboxes and dealing with the things I've let stack up for a couple weeks.
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