get a passport and use it!

What is Step One? Well, simply enough… actually applying for the damn thing. =D I am planning on doing my study abroad in Japan starting next Spring and I need to get my shit together. So this is the first step in gathering said shit. Fairly painless to, save for the cost. $121.10. That is 5 for a fresh birth certificate (my old one was a bit worn and the raised seal was practically non-existent), 15 for proper passport photos to be don’t in the post office, 25 dollar post office fee for.. I dunno… TAKING my application, then 75 for the State Department. And of course you can’t send cash in the mail so the last 1.10 comes in the form of the fee for the USPS money order. They said it is taking approximately 4-6 weeks for these to process right now. So with some luck, I’ll be getting my passport like a present by my birthday next month. Thanks Uncle Sam… now… SEE YA! The using it part should come next Spring. Wish me luck!

I’m not sure I even care to get a passport now. Reason being, I was planning a trip with someone and because of our unique situation I asked them if they had intention of going through with out plan, and all they could say is “I don’t know.” Not a big confidence booster there. I have no plan on leaving the country anytime soon. That trip this summer was the only reason to get a passport now. So why bother. If that trip isn’t going to happen and I’m not going anywhere else a passport would be needed… why bother? I don’t know, maybe I should have faith in the other person to no let me down. I should keep planning for this trip as if it were set in stone that we BOTH are going. Maybe I should just plan for it and if she tries to back out drage her kicking and screaming. Although I think that once we reach the first beach the kicking and screaming would stop… or maybe thats where the kicking and screaming would begin. ;)