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[tvordlj]

More name changing adventures.
Today was the second time I tried to change my Social Insurance number name.
Today was the second time I was thwarted in my goal.
The first time, I had forgotten my birth certificate.
This time, I had it but the website wouldn't take the particulars. It's registered, but it's so old it's just a paper form. Apparently I have to have a new one issued by the province who issue birth certificates (hatches, matches and dispatches) for all this to work in the federal system which is where your Social Insurance number counts.
I have to go to the Vital Statistics office which is no longer in a convenient location for me, it's at the arse end of a business area on the other end of the city, where it's really awkward to get to by bus and closes by 4 or 4:30. To get there from my office would take two busses and a good hour with the traffic and a longer ride home because the traffic will be even worse coming that way. Then I'd have to go to the first office again, before 4 p.m. to get that sorted out. That's not so difficult to get to  at least.
25 or 30 minutes by car. Nobody available this afternoon.
Sod it.
it's not a piece of ID that I MUST change. It's not required, your SIN is always the same no matter what your name is and my sister said she'd filed her income tax under her number and two different married names over the years and they don't blink. I only really thought i should because of all the immigration stuff but I don't think I will now. I'll give the consultant copies of the other id i've changed so that he has that and I think my SIN is on my Tax information that i gave him anyway so they will know it's me. It's just not worth the aggravation at this point.

A few more books read:

50 The Boston Girl - Anita Diamant
An 85 year old Jewish woman tells her granddaughter her story, mainly early 20th century Boston, through her education and some relationships as well as her relationships with her family and friends. Not bad, easy read.

51 - Blue Mercy by Orna Ross
Very good story about an Irish woman raising a daughter. The book circles around the death of the woman's father, and she is accused of assisting him to die. The story is told as the daughter is reading her mother's autobiography. Lots of conflict between the mother and daughter over the years. Really enjoyed it.

52 - Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
Two women who are cousins and their marraiges and families through a few decades starting during or just after WWII. Secrets, lies, relationships, The Happy Ever After isn't going to be all it was cracked up to be. Another pretty good story.

53 - Don't Look Now and other stories - Daphne duMaurier
5 short stories. Very well written, most of them very good. The last one is a bit off but still not bad.

54 - The Devil's Due - Monique Martin
Another adventurous romp about Simon and Elizabeth Cross, two time travelers that manage to find trouble and save people in trouble at the same time. Light, easy to read, fun and not to be taken too seriously. This one takes them back to Hollywood in 1933.

Comments

[sparklielizard.livejournal.com]

Heh! There's a reason I use both my married and unmarried name, and my unmarried name is for everything legal/financial. I am too lazy ;-)

[tvor.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, but i thought about it and realized that it being a pain in the ass to change it was not really a good reason not to do it. (Except for this last piece!) It's still strange using the name and if i have to contact someone by phone at work, outside of this department they don't know me as Williams yet so i have to say the old name at first! It's still odd getting used to the signature! Graham would have been fine if i'd kept my name, but he'd make a remark now and then about it being his first time married and I realized it probably would mean a lot to him and it wasn't crucial that i stay my old name and as i said, no real good reason not to do it.

[sparklielizard.livejournal.com]

It wasn't entirely laziness, as I was very attached to my maiden name as it's pretty unique and I'd established my career with it (plus I was proud to have it due to my dad's accomplishments in life - a proud association!)

The fact it would be so hard to change everything just solidified it for me really.

[tvor.livejournal.com]

Yes, you have much better reasons for it than I did. My career isn't based on name recognition and my father would not expect me to keep his name, he was more traditional and would have approved of the name change.