Needless to say, Jane and I fuh-reaked out. Especially since we had no idea where that number had come from, as we had been paying our taxes. We haven’t been the most diligent people with them, but enough to keep the tax man off our backs. Or so we thought.
This sent us into a downward spiral of thinking that maybe we wouldn’t be able to make it. That we had to come up with new ways to make money FAST. We were really on the brink of financial ruin.
Jane called the phone number on the letter. It got worse. They had no record of us ever filing any taxes. They had no record of us making any payments. We were going under, and fast. We reached our one year anniversary, and it seemed that would be the only anniversary we’d ever see.
“But wait, it appears as though there are two business account numbers set up under your name. We do have records of you filing and making payments, yes, here they are. I’ll just delete that second account that is causing the problems. You don’t owe $2500+. Silly us, that’s our mistake. You’re totally fine.”
SILLY YOU, INDEED, GOVERNMENT.
We breathed a collective PHEW and went back to business as usual. Something good did end up coming out of it. A plan to expand the White Elephant empire, starting very soon, but of which I can’t divulge the information about just yet. We’ve been in talks about this project for a while, but never really had the fire put under our feet to get it up and running. Yesterday did it for us. And something serendipitous came into play, but you’ll find out more about that soon.
Also, even though we celebrated our birthday two weeks ago, today is our birthday again!!! We’re greedy. Two years ago we opened up White Elephant the online store. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US.
Our friend and extremely talented artist Christina Sealey took this photo of us during SuperCrawl. I swear, as soon as I can find the proper cables for my camera in the chaos that is my junk house right now, I’ll upload many, many more.
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