how (not) to do your taxes 101

• Check the mail for the third week in a row waiting for the Husband's T4's
  
• Get excited because Revenue Canada has mailed something to the Husband.
• Get home from the gym, open the mail, become frustrated because it's not T4's but be happy because it is money!
• Search email at least 3 times and check 2 other email address for login information.
• Play soothing music on Itunes.
  
• Request UID from QuickTax
•  Read a few pages in: Does my head look big in this? by Randa Abdel-Fattah while waiting for Quick Tax to load the first UID.
• Updated info, find out this is not the correct UID.
• Boil water for tea, eat a bun made by the pastor from the leftovers they dropped off.
• Login on 2nd UID, read a few more pages, Aha, this is the correct UID.
• Start writing a blog post while waiting for the UID to import last year's information.
• Pick out tea bag while waiting for pages to load.
• Figure out what determines where your permanent residence is.
• Retreive steeped tea
• Finally get to enter your T4's.
  
• Make piles of paper for the cat to lie on.
• Enter 2 T4's
• Start e-mail to MIL,
  
• Enter 2 other T4's and keep going till you hit the donations screen
  
• Look up a movie
• Moving expenses? Where are my Canada Post receipts.
  
• Look for receipts for shipping my belongings.
• Program times out. UGH
  
• Logged back in, back to the donations screen.
• Move cat off of donation papers for the tenth time.
  
• Enter all the donation information again
  
• Find out Terrace isn't listed in the Zone A 0r B for remote-ness, so no money back for that.
  
• Warning says to transfer my donations to next year because I didn't make enough for the amount I donated.
  
• Another warning - You haven't entered Spouse's info.
• Give up for the day after twittering about it.
• Receive an inquiry from Quick Tax on Twitter, reply to it and never hear anything back.
  
• Receive Husband's T4's the next day,
• Put it off until you have 3-4 hours
• Figure out how to do both of your returns at the same time.
• Husbands offers to spend $50 on your for doing his taxes too.
  
• Get stuck on screen asking for actual education receipt. 
• Go take a long bath and worry about it when it's 8 am in BC again