Change of Plans

[linaewen]

***Sigh***

I can't decide if I am irritated or relieved. :-/

Irritated, because my house is such a mess that I can't lay hands on my son's birth certificate -- which he needs in order to get his learner's permit. Irritated that I didn't look for it before the day I had planned to go with him to get said permit and irritated that I am such a wretched housekeeper. Irritated that I have spent fruitless hours searching when I could have been working on some of my imminently due projects. Irritated that it takes more legal documents and proofs of identity to get a simple thing like a learner's permit in this state than it does to get a residential visa to Pakistan!!

Relieved, because it means that if I can't find the document, I don't have to use my day off -- which I desperately need even if I use part of it for work-related stuff -- to go stand in line at the DOT (probably to discover my son doesn't have quite enough proofs of identity to do the job). Relieved, because I can get another birth certificate with only a little trouble, and that will also give me time to get our mission to write a letter in lieu of some of the other kinds of documents required for the purpose that my boy just doesn't have. Relieved, because I have decided to go against my nature and LET IT GO -- I won't go today, and I won't look for the certificate until I have time to do it in an orderly fashion by cleaning up. We'll just go another day, and recapture this day for what we want to do.

You know? These journals are pretty helpful as sounding boards -- having said all that, I am feeling much calmer. I now have new goals for today -- write some overdue emails, go for a walk because it is a lovely sunny day, work on some of my projects so I don't hyperventilate tomorrow, and do something just for me, to relax.

And put aside my irritation with myself and the state I live in -- not to mention the State I live in -- and enjoy the rest of the day! ;-)

Comments

[maidoforange.livejournal.com]

(((Lin))). Uh, oh. Teenage son getting learner's permit? Watch out. I think resting and maybe getting a little work-work done, as opposed to waiting at the DMV or doing housework, would be a better use of your day.

[chic-too.livejournal.com]

I can sympathize. I couldn't find my passport before my trip to the states during the summer. I spent hours ripping up my office/workshop, never found it, should have started looking more than 3 days before I left. Also managed to "misplace" my daughters original birth certificate. I have the wallet sized one but seem to have lost her original paper one. I have looked every where and it's only been just over a year since I got it how bad is that!!
Good luck in your search

[captinskywalker.livejournal.com]

Argh, what frustrations!! I can understand how you feel, in spite of the fact that my frustrating situations aren't quite the same as yours, he he. I'll be praying that you'll find a way through it, and hope that your spirits are undamaged, difficult as that may seem!

[siradaono.livejournal.com]

First, sorry to hear about the permit thing, though it costs nothing to add him to your policy with just a permit, when he gets that drivers lic. it will boost your insurance at least 100 a month.

Second thing is the State your in.
change is good.
and I have noticed that you like many of us write better when under pressures from the RW.
LONG LIVE THE LIST

still here and still prayin for you and yours,
(((((Margie)))))