Paperwork that never goes away...

I have been back from my really enjoyable mental health retreats. I really didn't want to leave the places I had been staying but unfortunately I had NY State Sales taxes to file and it is a good thing that I did come back when I did because I had another governmental document debacle that I had to deal with.

The never ending, never rectified passport "prove who you are" supplementary worksheet. See I had thought that this was all done when I had received a phone call from my roommate who had informed me that what "felt like my passport" had come in. Though I was raised to never count my chickens before they hatch, I foolishly believed that my passport was there, waiting for me.

Boy, was that foolish. After Vylitte dropped me off and I had done some unpacking, I sat down for my "reward". I slowly opened the envelope and found....

That is wasn't my passport but more papers that I had to fill out to prove I was me. Not only did I have to list every place I lived, every job I had ever held and all of the schools I had ever attended and dates...I had to provide a minimum of 5 pieces of id that was ten years or older.

SI had to call the mother I didn't have...She couldn't believe it, what I was going through, not the fact that I had called her back.

Then the document hunt began. She went through all of my stuff at home in Massachusetts, while I went through all of the boxes of things that I hadn't yet started to pack up toward moving. It has taken me about a week, but I finally was able to get dates, places and all the pertinents, along with photocopies of documents collected together. All of the stuff was shipped off to Passportlandia priority mail on Monday. I hope I didn't piss anyone off too bad and that I actually get my passport. It would be nice since I filed it in January and have been playing document pingpong ever since.

The rest of the week was bad. No progress in finding work, funding or emotional relief. I signed up with an "online money making thing" which may or may not be a scam. I am trying to figure it out and trying to get it to work for me, but it is slow going. Thing is things that work for most people don't seem to work for me, ask anyone who has known me for awhile...its just the way of things.

But each day I sign on to the 2 sites I have to work with and do my "little work". I check my survey sites, and my artwork sites to see if anything is bearing fruit. I answer emails, check classified ads, check the HUD site, work on my blogs.

I have been trying to post more of my art and events on my blogs, self promotion was one of the reasons I started these things, in addition to the lovely place to vent and give people a peek into my world and my "head".

So the next post will most likely show you...what I have been up to in the studio.

Stay tuned...