The Price is Right
March 13, 2012
I must be the most unphotogenic person in the world. Ugh. Sheesh, I don't look good in pictures. I don't look that great in real life, but it seems to be amplified in photographs about 100%. LOL. However, I did not let that stop me! I needed a passport photo, and so I got one. Well, two. You need two when you send in your application. Twice the ugly. Yay. :P
Anyhooooo, the man at the place was very lovely and for the bargain price of $20, he took my photo. It's really a miracle I didn't break the camera, but it survived. hehehe I suppose it's tolerable, the image, but it looks so different from the current passport photo, I wonder that I'm the same person. Actually, no, I'm not. The old picture was taken in 2007. I wasn't in a good place in 2007. And it just got worse and worse until I crashed and burned at the end of 2008. I'm totally different now. In a better way. But that's a story for a another blog. Back to the picture.
You know how the style was at that time? Everyone had to have straight hair. When you have really curly hair, it's a bit of challenge. Every day I took a flat iron to my head. Burned myself a few times too. LOL.. It took hours and eventually it got to be too much. One day I saw on Oprah that we need to just appreciate the hair we have and not fight it so much. So I stopped fighting it. It was a losing battle. Now, it's just a crazy wild mess, and everyone says "Oh, I wish I had hair like that." Betcha don't. :P ANYHOW, thankfully my curly hair looked as good as it could have yesterday, so the passport picture was.......okay. For a passport picture. Of an unphotogenic person.
Did you know that for a price, you can get just about anything? Yep. It's true. So, I toddled off to the passport office this morning, with my pictures in hand and my application all ready to go. Hoping I would get a lovely agent who would take pity on my and help me get what I needed by the time I leave in 11 days. Turns out I didn't need a lovely agent. I just needed to regular processing fee of $87 plus an extra $30 as a convenience fee. And for $117, the price is right. I should have a new passport by March 21. YAY!
So, needless to say it takes a bit of the stress off, but I won't feel completely good about it until I have that new passport in my hand. I could have cried when the agent cut the corners of my existing documents, rendering them invalid. YIKES! Now I really can't go anywhere. Hurry up, March 21. You can't get here soon enough!
Tomorrow's blog? Well..........Anyone know what a Xenophobe is? Stay tuned to find out! :)
T.
xx
Anyhooooo, the man at the place was very lovely and for the bargain price of $20, he took my photo. It's really a miracle I didn't break the camera, but it survived. hehehe I suppose it's tolerable, the image, but it looks so different from the current passport photo, I wonder that I'm the same person. Actually, no, I'm not. The old picture was taken in 2007. I wasn't in a good place in 2007. And it just got worse and worse until I crashed and burned at the end of 2008. I'm totally different now. In a better way. But that's a story for a another blog. Back to the picture.
You know how the style was at that time? Everyone had to have straight hair. When you have really curly hair, it's a bit of challenge. Every day I took a flat iron to my head. Burned myself a few times too. LOL.. It took hours and eventually it got to be too much. One day I saw on Oprah that we need to just appreciate the hair we have and not fight it so much. So I stopped fighting it. It was a losing battle. Now, it's just a crazy wild mess, and everyone says "Oh, I wish I had hair like that." Betcha don't. :P ANYHOW, thankfully my curly hair looked as good as it could have yesterday, so the passport picture was.......okay. For a passport picture. Of an unphotogenic person.
Did you know that for a price, you can get just about anything? Yep. It's true. So, I toddled off to the passport office this morning, with my pictures in hand and my application all ready to go. Hoping I would get a lovely agent who would take pity on my and help me get what I needed by the time I leave in 11 days. Turns out I didn't need a lovely agent. I just needed to regular processing fee of $87 plus an extra $30 as a convenience fee. And for $117, the price is right. I should have a new passport by March 21. YAY!
So, needless to say it takes a bit of the stress off, but I won't feel completely good about it until I have that new passport in my hand. I could have cried when the agent cut the corners of my existing documents, rendering them invalid. YIKES! Now I really can't go anywhere. Hurry up, March 21. You can't get here soon enough!
Tomorrow's blog? Well..........Anyone know what a Xenophobe is? Stay tuned to find out! :)
T.
xx
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