My new exciting eyelid injury, ADHD Tax Edition

On Sunday when we were walking around the neighborhood with my SIL's dog, I walked right into the bottom corner of an overhanging cement balcony because my hat completely blocked it from view and I had forgotten it was there when I paused to point at some retro bicycles.

The corner impacted right on the orbital ridge and tore a cut in the middle of my eyebrow, but the bone protected my eye itself, and the raffia hat protected the wound from getting dirt in it. It bled for an annoying amount of time, and the inner half of the crease of the eyelid started turning purple yesterday, and today the eyelid is swollen just enough to be really annoying any time I shift my gaze at all.

It's like that Twiggyesque 60s eyeshadow where the crease is outlined in a black line and then it shades dark above it but the whole of the eyelid itself is light. Not exactly like, though, since the bruising only goes about halfway.

Other stuff, besides my eyelid injury

Wax and I have started trying to accomplish some of the mountain of home renovation tasks now that we are both on vacation, but have wasted a fair amount of daylight so far. Yesterday evening, however, we sat down and made a hopefully complete list of all the stuff we need done and then organized and prioritized it with highlighter and little symbols. So that at least felt very good; hopefully it will also prove effective.

The enzymatic cleaner that we bought is effective at dispelling the smell of cat pee! That's something at least.

The paint remover that we bought has been moderately effective at getting the five million old coats of thick oil paint off the cute little metal railings on the front stoop. There are two more railings opposite the stoop and then there's a TON of metal railing on the balcony, but we used up one can of paint remover already. Hopefully the next can of it will be better - this did definitely work but it took 48 hours and still didn't manage to eat all the way through the paint layers.

Paypal and Banking Woes

My new ("") bank account that I've had for six months SAYS it's registered with Paypal, but it doesn't actually work: Paypal can't withdraw from it.

I had a bunch of Paypal balance left for a long time which made it non-urgent, but now that's run out I can't use Paypal for anything and it's really annoying, because I have to get Wax any time I need Paypal, but my only alternative is wading into the bank's customer service to get it to work. (I sent them a request, but I haven't read the response yet, because it means checking an Inbox, which is already hard for me, and it's the online banking Inbox, so a BONUS Inbox besides the other Inboxes that I have to do battle with regularly. I'm afraid of Inboxes.)

My bank, Ålandsbanken, is a very small bank and they have the most personal service and highest customer satisfaction in Finland. However, they seem to have the most outages and problems in their web apps and card payments (I assume this is because they're smallest but who knows), which is, needless to say, sub-optimal.

They're the ONLY bank that has an office in our town in person anymore, and they're the only bank I know of that has tellers open without appointment twice a week, since all the other ones have downsized, pushed everything online, and outsourced customer service to the point that you have to reserve time in advance and wait in a crowded queue to get service now as if you were trying to apply for a license from the police or city goverment. That's annoying, and after I had a few months' experience using this local bank's office for work, I started to feel so much warmth and goodwill towards them that I switched. Our mortgage is through them already. Nordea's card payment system is very reliable because they're huge, but they're also big enough to have been explicitly caught being evil a bunch of times and it feels extra galling that a company raking in cash on a much larger scale has much worse customer service when they could certainly afford to be better. Wax still has a main account at Nordea and a second account at S-banken (because it comes automatically when you join the Sokos co-op for half the grocery stores in Finland and Prisma, which is like a Finnish Target) and a third account at Ålandsbanken (mortgage and home renovation loan money in that one). I suppose I could switch again now that I know it isn't too difficult, if this doesn't work out: I've heard a lot of good things about OP, I guess, because it's actually a credit union. Maybe I'll try that. Sigh.