I started my new job this week and it involves working from home and they gave me a shiny new Mac laptop. This was an auspicious start. I was doing some ironing and realized with joy in my heart that I didn't NEED to do ironing - my archive job is messy and I work alone and no one sees me all day and this new job is from home, which means I don't have to dress up unless I want to. I think I might cry. With wrinkle-free happiness.

I will also be working 20 hours a week total until school starts - except not really because I'm catching up on hours lost while on vacation and projects etc. - but still, I have a little more time. So one day I thought I would catch up on some chores, like updating accounts etc. Here's where I confess that AH does most of the financial stuff in our relationship and I don't know the user names etc. for many of our accounts. It's not womanly weakness and dependence - it's just that if I leave it up to me, the bills will get paid late and that is bad, it's some kind of character weakness. Anyway, I thought I would help and called a customer service rep and they asked for our account PIN. I couldn't find it.
"Can you answer the Security Challenge Question?"
Okay, likely, I know my husband pretty well.
"What is AH's favourite TV show?"
Wait, that's the challenge question? Not the last 4 digits of his SSN or his Mother's maiden name? Not his last zipcode before this one?
"ummm - Freaks and Geeks?"
"No"
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer?"
"No"
"Is there anything else I can answer instead?"
"No"
I had to hang up and place a call to AH.
"What the hell is your favourite TV show?"
He told me.
"Seriously you're going to make me say that to another human being?"
Which is how I found myself 15 minutes later being asked the challenge question again and replying confidently, if slightly shame-facedly:
"Three's Company"
Who says there is no mysteries left when you're married?