Michelle received her annual increase today. However, according to the template that is used to calculate her salary, we have been advised that instead of getting a small increase, we owe Thales money, and her monthly net salary will be reduced significantly – due to the poor Canadian dollar! Now personally, I found it very difficult to relate our cost of living with the value of the Cdn dollar.

It makes me want to scream.

It couldn’t have been worse timing – just as we are preparing for our influx of visitors during the summer, and worse, it’s come at the end of a tough month where Michelle has been working 7 days a week, traveling around the globe for her job – what do you think the chances are of Michelle continuing on this hell bent level of input? yep, very very slim….

So….

Tonight the only things rosy over here are my cheeks flushed with frustration!

I’ll let you know how we get on….