Ugh!!!

I think my title says it all, don't you? Who knew it was such a pain to try to claim your identity back. I understand, I am now living in a post 9/11 era, where everybody is suspicious of something. But, it's still enough to make a girl flip out. It started with me trying to get a new passport. Well, first I needed a birth certificate. Lucky for me, I was born in Los Angeles, so I could drive to the Civic Building in Van Nuys, waiting in a stinky line and pay money to purchase one. This morning, I woke up early, drove to the passport place, with my terrible passport pictures in hand, along with my birth certificate and my friend, Mytch (to vouch I was who I said I was, since I get confused for Charlize Theron all the time) and they put the application through. For 40 dollars, I could get my passport in early December, the day before my trip to Costa Rica! I couldn't take the risk, so I paid close to 200 dollars to get it to me faster. Ugh. Then, I went to the stinky DMV in the middle of nowhere in the hot Valley to get my new license. Well, I had to have a birth certificate in order to process my application, one that I had just given the passport people that morning! So, they told me to come back with one, and I lost it. Remember Falling Down with Michael Douglas? That was me without the baseball bat or horned rimmed glasses. I went to my car and cried. Because everything had hit me, my entire purse was gone in Nashville, my ID cards gone, my camera with pictures gone, my make up gone, my Motorola Q phone with my contacts gone. My car dealer called me up to check on my recent car purchase shortly after this DMV incident and I cried to him. Bless his heart, he actually listened to me and talked me through my ordeal. Thank God for car dealers like Rafeal! After gathering myself up, I drove back to the Civic Building, stood in the stinky line and purchased ANOTHER birth certificate. I will go back to the DMV tomorrow at 7.30 am and stand in line for a half an hour in hopes of getting my license. Wish me luck, because if this doesn't go through, I just might go purchase the baseball bat and horn rimmed glasses! Well, at least the glasses.