Waiting…
My boyfriend is ridiculous. There are a number of reasons why this is true, but what I am referring to today is the fact that he filed his taxes less than a month ago. Regardless of what time zone you live in, that’s 5 months after the May 2 deadline. As a result, I’m sure he’ll get audited!
Here’s my theory: at tax time, when everyone files, Revenue Canada is so busy just keeping up with everything. Now they’re bored (at least the staff who doesn’t get let go when the big rush is over) with nothing to do and here comes a tax return. I can see their little mathematical eyes lighting up at the thought of being able to do an audit…in November!!
How is this related to the wedding blog? Well, this tax return includes the money that will pay for the engagement ring. Yup, that’s right; I’m privy to the information about the status of the engagement ring. I did, after all, go with him to pick it out. I did sit through the “let’s educate these young’uns about the important aspects of diamonds talk before we take their money” talk. I do know that my ring is sitting at the jewelry store just waiting to be given and worn!
The romantic side of me thinks I really shouldn’t know all this information. He should just surprise me with a grand, well-devised sweep-me-off-my-feet-type proposal. But the practical side of me thinks that of course we’re going to discuss this - we talk about everything.
I don’t feel gypped in the least having this information at my disposal. Darren is smart enough to keep specific plans to himself. I know he’s a creative guy with just enough romance in him to give me a fabulous story to tell you. Romance and practicality can live together.
So anyway, now we wait…we wait, completely at the mercy of Revenue Canada. We wait for the Canadian version of Uncle Sam to give my baby back the money that he overpaid. We wait to get engaged.