We have accomplished the goal. We are legal residents of Texas – yee haw, ya’ll! We went down to the DMV yesterday to get our
driver’s licenses, but only one of us came back with one. I was so disgusted that Clark became official
before I did. Once again, we did not
have all of the paperwork we needed. Because
my name on my birth certificate did not match anything else, I had to have our
marriage license – ugh! The only way
around that would have been if I had my passport which I do not have yet. As an adult, I have not left the U.S. so I
have not ever needed one. We do plan to
get one soon, so we if want to go south of the border this winter we will be
ready but that was not real high on our list of things to do at this point.
So, back home we came to get the marriage license but I
could not find it in Clark’s file system.
Now, I am not a very patient person so I was really frustrated by the
fact I would now have to wait for a copy to come from Kansas before I could
proceed with getting my license. When
Clark discovered it was going to cost us $15.00 for the license and another
$11.00 to order it by phone using our VISA card, he decided he would look for
it. I would say filing it between a file
folder marked electric bills and another marked VISA – and not even in a file
folder – is not a very organized filing system! He says it must have fallen through, after all,
we were in a hurry packing things up in those last days. But, if you ever saw the way Clark kept his
tools or any of his other personal belongings, you’d understand why I don’t
believe that! I don’t know how that man
ever found anything in his mess of stuff, but I will give him credit and say
that he could usually find it as long as no one else had touched it. He doesn't believe in putting things back
where they go, he just believes in remembering where you left it last which is
a kind of scary way to keep things at our age!
In fact, it did make me wonder why in the world I left him in charge of
it in the first place! But, as he reminds me, he did find it. One of these days our luck will run out when
his memory finally fails him.
Well, after all of that frustration, we went back to the DMV
today to get my license. I do believe I
took the worst photo of my life and there are no do-overs here. Too bad so sad, what you see is what you
get. They took my picture so fast I didn't
remember to raise my head up so only one of my chins showed! Plus, I had my eyebrows raised so high, I look
like plastic surgery gone wrong! I’m
just going to tell people I thought it would be fun to make myself look as
unattractive as possible for my I.D. picture that I will be carrying around for
years to come.
From the DMV we went and got the next, and probably most important,
document taken care of…our library cards!!!!!
Their library is very small but I will be able to check out e-books and
since Clark has left 4 tubs of boxes stored at a very kind sister’s house, he
is not allowed to check out books until he gets through those.
Following all of that fun, we went for a drive and saw some
beautiful country. There are some
wonderful motorcycle roads around here, if we still rode. We stopped and had supper before we came home
and we will call this a day!
