I am in now in week two of a passport renewing drama and my time has been eaten away while on hold with the passport agency! To make a VERY long story short - I am leaving for a (much needed) cruise on Sunday and realized my passport expired a little too late to just mail it in... so 1 bazillion phone calls to the passport agency later - I finally got an appointment this morning. I still need to go back tomorrow and pick up the completed passport - but hopefully it will be OVER!!! You gotta love government workers though - really... I mean how else can they have fun except to play with people's nerves when they really need something.
Case in point... I need a passport... I need it now... I need it or I can't go on a trip... They have the power and know it... One *nice* lady told she made me an appointment and would email me the details and confirmation number later that day.
OK - this is the 21st century - emailed info - cool! Or so I thought....
Later that day... no email... next day... no email. Phoned them again... New *nice* lady on the phone say, "Email?... we don't email appointments. Someone told you the wrong information." (A.K.A. - you were the butt of some government worker's joke!)
So - I finally got an appointment for today thinking I'd actually get the new passport in my hot little hands immediately... wrong.
I feel like curling up in the fetal position and crying for my mommy to make it all better. (Nah - I'd rather just complain to you all!)
Oh a position note - I did get to have Cosi this morning... Mmmmm Cranberry Orange square bagels with butter.... heaven! They are one of the things I miss about working in DC.
Anyway - sorry I turned my short story into a long one after all - sometimes you just need to vent!
In other news... last Friday - I was in Virginia for the annual PeopleSoft Mid-Atlantic Regional Users Group (MARUG for those in the 'biz) and also got a chance to meet a fellow blogger! Since I was in the area - I shot Jinann a line and asked her if she was free for a visit! It's always cool to actually get to meet online friends in person - isn't it?
We met at Capital yarns and I bought some yummy Mountain Colors sock yarn and I finally got the Favorite Socks book I've been lusting after.
After that we ate some yummy BBQ at a local joint next door to the yarn shop... you could smell the BBQ in the shop too!
Here we are after our BBQ feast!
It was cool to get a chance to meet up!
Before I met Jinann - I had some time to kill and was driving around - looking for something to do when I spotted a sign for Sully Plantation. A plantation!? I had to check it out...
It was the home of Richard Bland Lee, Northern Virginia's first congressman, and was built in 1794. I didn't take an official tour or anything - but I did walk around the grounds a little and took some pics:
There were plenty of pretty yellow goodness around to suit the new Project Spectrum colors too :)
Definitely worth a quick stop if you're ever in the Herndon area!
6 comments:
We live in such a small world! I was happily reading your post and then came to Jinann's picture and said - "I know her!" She lent me money one day at Capital Yarns because I had trekked all the way down there to pick up one skein of Kidlin to finish a project and I FORGOT my wallet. She had only met me once before and wrote a check for my yarn and gave me her address to send her the money! She is SO nice. I didn't even know that she had a knitting blog! :)
Good luck with your passport and I hope to see posts soon about your fabulous cruise. :)
LOVE your plantation pics...keeping my fingers crossed for your passport.
I hope all is well in passport world! But more imporantly... did you lay down on the ground to get the picture of the daffodils at that angle? :)
Hope you get your passport! I love the Monkey socks - just stunning! The plantation pictures are great too.
OMG! I'd be freaking over the passport. You're right about government workers; they work on a different time line than the rest of the world.
Those pictures are gorgeous!!!
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