Drat this working for a living all to heck.

I recieved my birth certificate yesterday.  I sent my faxed request late the previous Thursday.  Very quick.

Yes, it has my new name, but somehow it feels okay.  This document just says that the individual named as blah blah was born on such and such a day in such and such place.  It doesn't seem to have a historical context.  Anyhoo.  If I hadn't been so lazy, I could have made my SIN request yesterday.  But I was lazy, so I will try to do it Wednesday morning.

So, I had put off updating my ID because I currently have the haircut from heck, and I wanted to get another done before the driver's licence people took a new picture.  I'm not ready for the haircut because I need it to get long enough that it will be a clean slate for my hairdresser (long story).  And then I got a bug in my hat and decided I wanted to at least get my SIN card done.  So I looked up the rules.  I need a birth certificate in order to update my SIN - but I had to turn in my birth certificate to the name-change people, so now I don't have one.  So I looked up the rules.  In Alberta, I need to send a copy of the name change doc, and a copy of my driver's licence.  So, I went in and paid the money, and was ready to present my best side - and they didn't want a new picture (because it gets renewed in 2009 anyway), but they did want a new signature.  Since I started signing with an illegible squiggle in imitation of my father, when I started using Goodwin-Smith, I just kept my illegible squiggle, since I could tell you I was signing "Mrs. Smith" and you wouldn't be able to tell that I wasn't.  So my new licence (when mailed) will have my new name, my old picture, and my new old signature.  Go team go.

I still think it is silly that my birth certificate name will change.