the path to a passport

via every single office in melbourne! Its getting a bit tedious already!

So, yesterday morning I woke up feeling pretty good (chiro did wonders on Monday) so i decided to brave all the "name change" places...see i i could get it over and done with. So, after school drop off, I headed to VICROADS to do the 1st one...my license. I did expect this to be the painful one...but happily it was simple...and FREE! So, in and out of therein less then 15 minutes I decided next stop was a haircut and then my passport photo.

Made a detour via Medicare to do that one too. That will take about 2-3 weeks for my new card...so won't be here in time for my passport appointment...so then i had to add the bank on to my list of things to do!

So,then, haircut was easy (always so nice to have someone else wash my hair) and over and done nice and quick. Then...photo time. I decided to use Kmart (as that was where the post office sent me to get E's done cause it was too hard for them lol)...WRONG!

Got pic (after several tries) and decided to go and get it approved at the post office. 15 mins in a line..to be told it was not ok. Trekked back across to Kmart to get a refund...decided to go home, have lunch and face it again in the afternoon.

So, after lunch i decided I would go to both post office and the bank....oh the joy!

INto post office, line up for 15 mins...1st pic ...failed (could see my teeth) but because they use an old fashioned polaroid I had to wait again for 10 mins for them to take another pic....finally got one.

Off to the bank....more waiting....25 mins later...it was finally done!

So...after a day of waiting...waiting....frustration and more waiting...I now have more waiting for all my new cards to arrive!

I really should have done all this a year ago and then would not be concentrating all this frustration into a few days. However...then it would be too easy for me really!

I really want to get this passport thing over with and then I will really have all this behind me. I can just relax and enjoy all my holiday plans and run headlong through those custom gates and head to the UK!!