The Census and the Taxes

I received my completed tax return for 2005 the day before it was due, and I have yet to send it in. Why is this? Am I to cheap to spend a dollar or so mailing it off? Do I keep forgetting about it? Sort of. The truth is I am very lazy (as I have mentioned many times) and I just can't be arsed to sign the bloody thing and walk over to the post office to mail it. You'd think I would have sent it that day, as I did go to the post office to get a money order but my brain can not process two tasks at the same time. I looked at it today and thought to myself "I must sign this." but just did not get around to it.

And I should send it because I am due to get back just over $1200, which will probably go right onto my student loan, but I can hope they actually send it to me. Plus both my Child Tax benefit and my GST are due to go up in July (odd, since I made more money last year than I did the year before, which is really odd because I sat on EI for 9 months...not because I am too lazy to work, people, but because I had a baby.) I also need to send it in so that I can claim my piece of the Harper government pie..$1200 per year for each child under 6. It's a foolish waste of money, but I shan't complain. I'd like to meet a single person in this country who could afford to stay home on $2400 per year or pay daycare.)

That same week I also received my census. I was very excited by this, because I absolutely love census time. I love telling people my business. I was hoping to get the long form again, but no such luck. I really, really, really loved the long form. I told a lie last time, which was that I could speak Irish. A small white lie, really, but I speak it better than I speak French. I can speak bits and pieces but my pronuciation really sucks. Which might just explain my daughter called "sor-sha" instead of "seer-sha" mighten it?

I have a problem though and that is that I can not fill out my census. I can not fill it out because William is both a B and a C. (You might understand that if you had a copy of the census in front of you.) He's not yet my common-law partner, as we have yet to have lived together for a consistent 12 month period. However, his legal address is in another country. It is all very confusing and I know that if I were to call I would be told to include him under C or not at all. Sadly, my census is going to be returned with me looking like some sort of hussy, with 3 children with 2 different last names, neither of which match mine. Even sadder, I've given permission for my census results to be reviewed by future generations in 92 years. "So that's why Great Nanny was so fucked up" my future great great grandchild will say of her great grandmother (either Saoirse or Taylor, take your pick.) Wee bugger.