by Just_Lin
I got some good news and some bad news in the mail today. The good news is that I can renew my driver license online or by mail. I don't have to go in and take a test or anything. The bad news is that I can renew my driver license online or by mail. I don't get to go in and finally get a NEW PHOTO! OMG! I've already had to carry around this crappy photo for the past five years. It seems I was overly concerned at the time that I'd blink just as the shot was taken because my eyes are so wide open I look like a rabid raccoon. The photo I had previous to this one was actually pretty good. It was so good that I was even able to display it in the license window of my wallet rather than hide it upside down in a credit card slot like I do with this one.
Since I've lost some weight, my face no longer looks as puffy as it does in my license photo. Okay, okay, I haven't lost enough weight to make me unrecognizable or anything. Actually, the 50 lbs I've lost since that photo was taken makes me pretty darn close to the weight I claimed to have been at the time. LOL Doesn't everyone lie about their weight on their driver's license? Thank God they don't ask for our measurements, too. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to pass as 38-24-36.
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BAM BAM Off to read the blog
Good morning Owls.
I guess I have to get up just a little bit earlier to beat DeeDee. That delete was mine. I was so excited thinking I would be first that I must have hit publish twice.
J/L I only took a fairly good pic at the DMV once and that license was good for 12 years. I hated it when I had to take another pic and even used the expired one for as long as I could get away with it. Even when I was 16 and NOT overweight, I lied about my weight on my license. I didn't think it was DMV's business. :0
Have a good day everyone. BBL
Morning Glories!
Well Miss Deedee I see you dancing in the sunshine this morning!
I have been renewing my license online for the last 10 years Just/Lin. Mr. Lynn D and I went to the movies a few weeks ago and they asked for my license as I was using my debit card to pay for tickets. The poor lady kept looking at my picture then at me, then back at my picture and then at me.
I finally looked at her and said "Yes it is me, with much shorter hair, no glasses and the hair is freaking gray OK"? That was 10 years ago and a different time. I gave up on the contacts and let my hair grow and found a bottle of dye. LOL
I told her that if they are going to let women renew online they really need us to send in a new picture every year, what with hair dye, plastic surgery and all.
Oh and I have always lied about my weight. Can't lie about my age so something on the damn thing should make me happy!
Hi Barb you are up very early!!!
I got my new computer yesterday and I am learning my way around it this morning. So far so good!
J/L....I feel your pain....
Just go to the DMV and tell them you need a new photo....
And don't be afraid to take your time in preparation for the photograph...
I know some people get a little perturbed when I come into the DMV with hair..make-up and lighting but I don't care because it only takes about 2 minutes more to get it right!
And ALWAYS tell the person taking the picture to count out loud and "snap" on the count of 3!!
These are your tax dollars at work so you have to remember who is REALLY in charge.
Another nice touch that I sometimes have added is requesting that one of the men do me....my photo I mean....and having him wear a yachting cap with an airplane pin for a Francesco Scavullo effect...
Good Morning Hooters!
Congrats on 1st DeeDee.
sacBarb- I just want you to know that they have medication for your dellusional thoughts honey... please seek help(jbj probably would want you too as well)lol
j/l - laughed at your blog. Who has ever really told the truth or been happy with the photo? Not me. Yes, I am 5'10, blue eyed and blonde, but the weight hasn't changed on my license in 20 years... :)
Apparently you have never been to the DMV in my city DeeDee- because no one would wait that long to get a new picture! I have given birth in less time than it takes to get thru those damn lines!!
Who is Francesco Scavullo?
Good morning, HOoters! Come to think of it, I haven't had a photo taken at DMV since I got married and changed my name in 2000 so I've been carrying this hideous photo longer than I thought.
yes Goldie....I guess the lines would be too long in a large city....
And I get preferential treatment here because...I don't know if I have ever told you all...but I invented corn...yeah....so I am quite well known in these parts.....folks do seem to love their corn!
And I get paid every time you or anyone eats some.....you know those sections of paychecks and the like where there are all those little boxes where monies are withheld and sometimes you may have wondered about the amounts in some of those.......
deducted corn money....yep....all for me....
For clarification purposes...some people call it maze....
(glares at Robert)
Whabbear! Scavullo was one of the finest photographers of his time! The very idea.
I must say that I am shocked and surprised at you! This information is in "the handbook" in the chapter right after the Judy Garland required reading....(shakes head and wonders what the world is coming to)
http://www.scavulloeditions.com/home
Congats on first DeeDee~
JustLin: LOL at your blog. Yes, that is the problem we are stuck with some horrid picture and yes, I lie on my weight..hehe.
Loved the blog!
Okay, I have to go but I will be back later.
DeeDee,I don't know how you can "BAM" so early in the morning!Must be all that corn. You do "amaze" me:)
Justlin,I renew online. I don't mind that pic, it's my passport that I wish I could change! I wouldn't let me into another country if I were a security guard lol!!!
I have been cleaning out my closet and getting rid of things I haven't worn in over a year. I have spent most of the morning trying on stuff that "I was going to get into one of these days". I am packing them up and taking them to an old friend of mine who always looks forward to my annual closet cleaning.She says it's the only way she can get a decent wardrobe. What she doesn't keep she gives to others or Goodwill.
She is a cashier at our local grocery store. When I walk in she will say "oh I can't wait to get that blouse" lol!!
Have a great day everyone!!
J/L~ I loved my last picture....the one I have now is awful...and my passport....ugh!!!~ Funny blog....thanks~
DeeDee~ Congrats on BAM!~
I'm in a training class again....they couldn't get me signed into the system....always the trouble maker....I have to use the Facilitators login~ ....i'm bored~
oh fun, fun, fun....I have to make up a fake name.....what should I pick? :D
Hortensia. :)
My passport photo is pretty okay. Especially since I had it in my purse when I accidentally spilled an iced tea in it and the pic has a bit of a blurred look to it. Kind of the way they used to film Doris Day so we wouldn't see her freckles.
*hangs head in shame, surrenders gay card*
Whabbear....for heavens sake...keep your card....I sure it had to have been just a lapse in memory....besides...you are going to need it....theres a group heading down to Mexico City to egg Paquita La Del Barrio as she performs tomorrow night....
Pick you up at the Palo Alto airport at 4pm.....
Just Lin thanks for QOTD!
Congrats on 1st DeeDee!
Hello DeeDee, SacBar, Lynn D, Goldie, Whabbear, Just Lin,Bebbi, Mary and Tina!
Here in Nova Scotia we have to go and get our picture taken every 5 years. The last time I had mine done the woman asked if I wanted another one taken (I guess she didn't like it) and I told her "Honey it ain't going to get any better." We don't have our weight on our drivers license either. That's rediculous!
SacBarb. LOL @ you using your old license for as long as possible. My pic is so bad that I feel insulted when no one questions if it is me or not. LOL
JUST LIN...great blog! I have had the same wt. on my dl since I was 16!! My pic sux! And this last year when I renewed I had to have it marked on there that I can not drive without glasses! I tried the eye test without them and had to ask the clerk if the exam was supposed to be in Chinese!!
MARY...my passport photo is HORRIBLE! I look like a terrorist...was afraid the US wouldn't let me back in!!
DIANNE...thank you. You know what for!! {{hugs}}
LYNN...my dl has done the 180 turn. When I lost weight I had to have a new pic because I didn't even resemble the pic. Then when I gained it back, once again I didn't resemble the pic!!
We haven't been asked to renew on line yet for our license or at least I haven't come to that day yet. I would go and wait in line for a new picture if I didn't like mine, J/L. I don't like any pictures of myself so if I just look younger...I would keep the old one.
My high school is closing down this year. I was the first graduating class and last night they had a little ceremony and open house. I didn't go but a few of the "kids" from my class did and posted pictures on FB tonight. OMG....they are so damn old and they are wrinkly and have big old age spots!! How the hell did they get so old? I was one of the younger ones so they are probably 64 instead of a young 63 like me but damn. One of the girls still looks okay. I took out my yearbook even tho' I remembered all of them. One of the boys has never come to a reunion and I knew him fairly well. He was a "hoodlum" because he smoked and drove a hot rod...I wouldn't have been able to identify him in the picture to save my life!! He used to be so cute and now he looks like he is about 90!!!!!! It makes me want to call the botox center late night shift to get right in...I guess the good part of being fat is the wrinkles aren't showing. Sorry for going on and on but i just saw these pictures and I am in shock!!
I thought it kind of fit with the blog too since I would keep my young baby picture from when I was in my late 50's and I will probably be 80 then.
SHIRLEY: I wanted to comment on your blog yesterday. It was so nice and I love your grandmother. I could just picture you visiting her and spending time with her. I loved the part of her being careful to re-use the taped part of the envelope. I sometimes wish back to those old days. It was a great blog and story and thanks for sharing. My dad's mother died in child birth so I never new her. She died two years before I was born. I have heard many stories about her and it sounds like I would have really loved knowing her. My mother's mom lived in New York until we were grown up. I loved it when they would come and visit and she always called me her angel. I also received a letter every week with two dimes taped to the end of the letter. When they moved to Denver, it seemed like I wasn't as close to her anymore and I think that is because I was caught up in my life and kids, etc. I regret that every day and think how I would feel if my grandkids ended up doing that with me. It makes me sad that I was like that.
Great picture JODI of you and your grandmother.
Well, this is a book....sorry but wanted to catch up.
Diane, I love your novels! You better not clam up in Chi town! ijs! We won't have time to do the shy thing,k?
I was lmao at your reunion comments!
I never go to mine. I don't want them to feel bad cuz I am still looking so young and they are looking soooooo old lol!!!
BEBBI: I would be excited to put my weight on my license if i had lost all that weight you have lost.
SHIRLEY; I am liking Canada more and more every day....no weight on your drivers license...that is my kind of place. I bet our people crack up looking at the weight as we renew here in America!!!
do you all realize that we have a count of close to 12 for Chicago now...yea and hopefully more to come!!!
DIANNE...who's all going to Chicago?
Mo, I sent you an email.
Is it the Dirty Dozen going to Chicago? LOL
Calling all Night Owls!! :D
J/LIN: I just got my DL picture retaken on my 50th birthday. It really didn't come out that bad..considering it was me. LOL! I was issued a new license when I moved here from CA years ago. I studied for the AZ exam..but never had to take it. My DL is good until 2023. Now all I have to do is start driving again! :)
LYNN: I was blonde when I was young, and my hair has gotten darker every year. I put blonde on my license last year, they changed it for me. Darn. lol..
SACBARB: ..Thank goodness they didn't call me on my weight too.. ;)
DEEDEE: I can just see you sweeping into the DMV with your entourage..omg..lol..
GOLDIE: You can make appts everywhere else..they should let you make them at the DMV too. I know they do in CA..such a good idea.
BEAR: LOL!!
DEEDEE2: Dinner on Monday night..I owe you for the corn.. ;)
MARY: Can you come over and help me clean my closet next? I've put it off for eons..
DIANNE: Your comment about your high school class really made me laugh..
SHIRLEY: I agree..it's ridiculous!
Mo: Thanks. :)
TINA: Didja come up with a good name?
BEBBI: I agree with DIANNE..you should be proud to put your weight down!
Well..that's the extent of my Nightowlishness this morning..Sweet dreams everyone! :)
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