Thursday, October 7, 2010
Officially Annoying.
It seems that suddenly there are a lot of things in my life that need to be officially done. We needed to officially get our marriage application notarized. We needed to drive over to Iowa to get officially married. We got our official marriage certificate but now need certified copies of our birth certificates (which I might have to have the application notarized, since I don't have the original one) and to send our official marriage certificate with it to the social security office so they can send us our new official social security cards. But I'm not sure if I should just drive it down there so that I can hand it to them in person. But I would have to take a whole day off to do that. Then we have to take our official social security cards, after waiting two weeks to get them, and take them to the DMV and hope and pray that the official office will agree to give us new official driver's licenses. Why is this so hard? Why can't Social Security team up with the states and automatically send out new cards when the name change is indicated on the marriage certificate?!? After all that, I have to contact a ton more people to get my name changed, like utilities, credit cards, not to mention my employer, because I need a new name plate—and do I change my email or not? I've been using that one a long time... It's all very frustrating, and the more I think about it, the more irritated I get. I don't have time to get a ton of things notarized, and why the heck don't we have a social security office closer than an hour away? It's not like this town is THAT small!! Oh, big whoop, so we have someone here on the second Wednesday of every month from 9:30am-noon. Seriously? Once a month, there's someone here for two and a half hours!? SERIOUSLY?!?
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I wonder if things have gotten more complicated due to identity theft or something? It seems like when Tom and I got married it was easier somehow. I mean, I realize some of the stuff was harder because you have the same bits as Julie, but even so some of it is the same process. I remember going to the courthouse in Peoria to get the license. I remember changing my middle name (to my maiden name) and my last name. I remember the lady saying I couldn't do that, but then doing it anyway. That was in Philadelphia. Maybe big cities are busier so they just don't give a shit? Getting our licenses and registering our vehicles here in Illinois was way more of a pain than it should have been, too.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Macomb should definitely have a social security office since it's the county seat and a college town. It would make sense.