Quote from: sarah1972 on March 06, 2019, 04:34:43 PM
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Just as a preemptive thing [emoji23]
BRAT!
Quote from: Moonflower on March 05, 2019, 07:59:53 PM
The BEST birthday present: seeing yourself, and liking what you see. What encore could follow .......
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TL;DR at the bottom
Today would have been another typical work day except I took the day off. Lori and I lazed around in bed for a little extra sleepy-time. I got up and made coffee, as is the norm. The air, being a bit brisk, caused me to get fully dressed. I started with my face, since it needs the most work. I ended up with a nice short-sleeve form-fitting butt length black sweater top over a lighter white long-sleeve sweater top (I told you it was brisk). Matched them up with my white jeans and black sneaks, since I don't have any nice closed-toe shoes and it was too cold for open-toes. Lori decides that she should catch up with me and also gets dressed, very nicely I must add. She pulls off the girl look much easier than I do. We finally loaded up for a day of errands. First stop, Publix .. we needed some cash, $500 should do it.
Finally getting away from there with the cash, after few hiccups, we drove to our second stop - Court house for the Clerk of Court office. After a few false starts .. when you are asked several times if you have tweezers it really helps if you remember that, yes, I do have tweezers in my purse. Disposing of the potentially life-threatening device outside the building I again entered and was granted access to the inner workings of our local government (I think graveyards have more live people!).
Asking directions, since we were clueless, we arrived at the wrong office to stand in an empty line just to be told where to go ... erm .. given directions to the right office. Arriving at the right office we again stood in an empty line. The lady was very pleasant, shuffling through my improperly sorted paperwork for what I really needed to file. "You don't need this"; "Are you sure you want to file that?" etc etc. That all done she relieved me of most of my hard-earned cash, handing back the extra $100 that I gave to her (oops). Good thing to as we need that later! Asking about particular info she was taken aback that I didn't already have it. Apparently had I asked they have a prepared packet I could have used ... arrgghhh!. Anyways, I got what I needed along with instructions for what to do next. After we exited the office I hugged Lori and cried on her shoulder. I'm sure it was from the loss of my money. Monetary extractions hurt, let no one tell you otherwise.
Onward we go to our third stop, the local Sherrif. Thereupon we waited to be processed like common criminals. NAAHHH!! Another very nice lady ... are there no men that actually do work? Oh yeah, they wait at metal scanner to wrestle you to the ground or shoot you ... had us wait until someone could cover the phones so that we could be 'processed'. Ok, really it was just me. I get invited into the itty-bitty room whereupon my fingers are duly ingested into the local electronic system. I assume so that I can be properly identified should I have the audacity to pick my nose in front of an officer or something. Relieved of some more of my fast-dwindling cash I was given yet more instructions for ridding myself of even more of my cash.
Lunch/breakfast cravings hit so we hit our favorite money-saving edible food joint (IHOP) .. 30 minute wait!! SNOWBIRDS GO HOME!! Yeah, we waited and waited, we were seated, and waited, we ordered, and waited and waited. YAY! FOOD! It's all good, we got 'ladies' and I also got 'honey' .. so sweet.
HEY, why wait for the DR's appointment (4th stop), call and see if we can get in early. Pay dirt! New appointment in an hour and a half. So we did what any red-blooded person would do, we went shopping. We did manage to get out of there empty-handed, whew! Off to the Chiropractor to un-pretzel'd .. they had no problem taking more of our cash
Very nice though, they always treat me like a lady and were excited for me as I recounted our days activities.
Slow drive home with a few stops. We need a couch, didn't get one since all my cash was gone. I did get 'lady' and ma'am so that was worth it. We should have avoided Goodwill though. I found some newish boots
They'll work better than my old boots for these colder days requiring closed toes .. oop, the heel is higher. Well, more walking practice is called for.
Last stop before home - Publix, again, for a prescription pick-up .. woo, I get to give Lori a shot! .. yeah, nope. The prescription wasn't called in. Straighten that out after we get home.
We finally arrived home to collapse around 4:30 pm (the original scheduled time for the Dr appt.). Finally rest time. Yeah, nope. Time to get on the interwebs and spend more money on a criminal background check so wondrously required of me due to my finger ingestation.
TL;DR
Spent loads of money
Filed my official 'Petition for Name Change' at the Clerks office
I cried after filing
Got fingerprinted at the Sheriff's office for the afore-mentioned petition
Got gendered mucho correctly throughout the day
Processed the payment for background check with the state.
I already have my Dr letter for gender change for the Social Security card. Now I just wait a few weeks to be contacted by the clerk to schedule my court date.
umm .. YAY?
ps
any typo's or grammatical errors ... too bad. There's too many words for me to proofread!!!
