I spent the day in Philly waiting for my passport to get processed. Ok here’s the deal and I swear it’s not just rationalization. So in a week basically I’m heading to Kansas to prepare to leave for a cruise to Alaska with my folks. I need a passport. STOP…I know what you are going to say. “But Kimi….you are going to Alaska and that’s a US state. You don’t need a passport.” Ah…but I do. See…we are going to be in a boat that’s going to dock at the end in Vancouver, BC. Therefore, to get ONTO the airplane to come back home I must have a passport or a receipt for getting a passport and a birth certificate. Remember that…that part is important.
So..my mother, cause she loves me gave me money a few weeks ago to get a passport. Things came up, they always do and I spent the money on a Dr. My plan, to get my passport taken care of at the post office last Friday/Monday get the receipt, have my birth certificate and away we go. Ok so I’m a little dumb and I forgot they were going to TAKE my birth certificate in order to process the passport. So…that was going to be impossible. They also weren’t going to hand me a receipt either. So neither would have been helpful. They politely informed me that I could go to a regional office and get it expedited or at least get a receipt. Long story short, we arranged for an apt today in Philly cause that’s all I could do to get it in time. I had to rent a car, drive down, get said passport going.
Here’s where I’m not rationalizing. IF I would have processed my passport when my mom first gave me the money…I’d be screwed. I would be UNABLE to go to Alaska. They’d have my birth certificate and I’m pretty sure it would have been impossible to even get a copy of THAT back in time to go. Not to mention I’d have no receipt saying it was being processed. It was a huge pain in the ass to go today and a lot of money to get it done today but I have a passport and I can go on the trip with my parents. As opposed to NOT going. See where that’s a good thing. It really is…if I keep repeating it I will stop feeling bad for giving my mother a heart attack, making daddy go through hell to arrange all of it and spending so much extra cash to get it handled. I promise. I will. ๐
I’m not going to into the long day I had. The highlights are I spent over the top money for a picture for the passport. I waited 5 hours and took 3 and change hours to get back home. I spent a total of 12 hours on this process. I got stopped several times because apparently there is a pen knife hidden in my boots, just ask the detector. It swears.
But I got it. And I’m happy. I just have to wrap up things here so when I go away Daddy will be on autopilot. He’s bitched I’m going. No one to get his soda and all that. But he’s a big guy and he got them when I wasn’t here. I am happy he’s gonna miss me. I’m sorry I’m going to miss his bday. ๐
Tat leaves tomorrow with Seraphin to go to Dark Oddessy Camp. I wish I could go. I keep telling myself that and promptly forgetting I hate the outdoors and I DID say CAMP. But it would be fun. Oh well I”m gonna see if I can make the next event. I hope everyone going has fun and remember us “stay at home, in doorsey kinda peeps.”
Btw…for those who remember, my workshop last Saturday on Punching, Kicking, and Ball Kicking went well. Brandon came down to be my demo bottom and I got to have fun hitting and kicking him. I even had people who came to my section of the workshop to get advice and ask questions so I felt really good about that. Lady Sabrina said that she enjoyed my workshop and that she learned some things. That I was concise and clear. So…good. ๐ I appreciated Brandon making the trip down. It was a pain for him to come on the bus and the train and it seeped some of his hard earned cash but it was great of him to do so and to let me beat him up. Did I mention how fun that was?? ๐
And now…for the cuteness that was SOOOO needed. ๐
