Portuguese Consulate & Toads

Errr...

You know, I really don't ask to be chosen to take on my mother's legal woes..  Why me? 

                                     

My mother has a home overseas that she wants/needs to change the title of the deed.  I contacted the Consulate here and was told years ago to mail in certain documents to change the name on the deed.  Apparently, according to the very LAZY men in the office that don't want to deal with ME, only one woman in this office is in charge of this document, and of course, she is never there!! 

Well, I finally got her on the phone (thank God she understands English) and according to her EVERYONE knows how to do her job.  Okay-whatever.  She tells me that the paperwork I had sent, usually takes a few months to process.  Hmm...  Gee, we submitted it a few years ago lady!  After she asked for my father's name, she told me that it didn't sound "right."  I know my father's name lady!  She just assumed he wasn't American, and didn't believe he could have a name like "Joseph".  Just because I'm not a native Portuguese, don't assume I'm totally clueless about my origins, or the correct spelling of my father's name, woman! Yeah, I'm a little peeved, because the documents she made me send were originals--if they are lost, I may have to SCREAM.  She is suppossed to call my mother about the status soon.  I'm assuming (one should never assume of course) that the paperwork is sitting on someone's desk, gathering dust somewhere in San Francisco.  The last time I spoke her, which was months ago, she said that she hadn't gotten it back from the Azores yet, and now she is telling me that it only takes 2 months.  I warned her, that "I will be calling back, and NO, I'm not going away" until I hear back from her. 

Be scared..be very scared. 

Anyway, I heard something equally scary on the radio today.  Apparently there is an online dating service out there that enables you to submit your own review on various people you have dated.  Now that is bizarre!  Yes, now you can "shop" for dates just like you would shop for a hotel or restaurant, or movie!  Have a bad date?  Why simply write the review about how late your date was to pick you up, how he smelled like goat cheese, used his coupon book, or you can report if he is a  bad kisser..etc..and all the other reasons why you would not date him again.  You can warn other people out there not to date a particular person.  Oh brother...  I am so sure!  All I'm saying, is don't expect to read any raving reviews about people.  If you find someone who is normal out there, why tell other people about them?!  That would be just plain stupid. 

I'm so glad I'm not single anymore.  Being thrown in a dating pool after years and years of marriage (even if he was with an A-hole) was not fun for me.  It's a scary, scary, world of toads out there ladies!!  I found my prince, but I know far too many women out there that are still in search of their own.  Slim pickins!!!