Apparently passports can take a long time to receive after you send away for them. There is an option to expedite the process, but that costs extra moolah!
Since we’re leaving on a cruise with our friends at the end of April, I wanted to be sure to give my passport a good seven weeks to process since my old one expired and I need a new one.
I headed to Walgreens to get my passport picture taken right before lunch this afternoon. After talking with my friend Michaela in Colorado about heinous passport photos, I was worried that the photographer wouldn’t let me smile. Michaela said they didn’t let her smile in her passport photo, which resulted in a horrific convict-esque non-grin.
Since Michaela and I both have a hard time not smiling when someone says to “be serious” in a picture, I feared that my picture would also be a weird closed-mouth awkward grin.
Fortunately my passport photographer didn’t say anything about not smiling, so I bared my teeth and gave her a grin!
Even though it looks like my eyes were blacked out, that’s infinitely better than my “serious” look would’ve been.
Our wedding photographer took one serious photo on our wedding day (I told her ahead of time that they weren’t our style) and it still cracks me up.
It looks like we were mourning the death of our singles lives.
I remember the photographer who took our school pictures during my senior of high school made everyone do a “serious” picture. Mine was so hysterically awful that my family put it on the fridge immediately to taunt me when we got the photo proofs. A model, I am not!
I actually had something kind of funny happen to me when I asked to change my last name from Bream (my maiden name) to Fagan in the Walgreens system while I was waiting for my passport photo to print. The woman asked whether or not my first name was still the same.
Do people often change both names?
I wanted to tell her that yes, in fact, I did change my first name and am now Princess Consuela Bananahammock, a la Phoebe Buffay. (There will never be a show better than Friends, I am convinced.)
Lunch
Today’s lunch repurposed the salmon leftover from last night’s dinner.
I made myself a salmon salad wrap by combining the following:
- Salmon
- Light Miracle Whip
- Mustard
- Relish
- Chopped cucumber
- Chopped carrot
- Sliced grape tomatoes
I also ate roasted Brussels sprouts and zucchini on the side.
Dessert was a speckled piece of poo.
Or a date rolled in chopped almonds. 
Off to do some editing!
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Yum that wrap look incredible. I may have to have a wrap for lunch today after seeing that. I love friends too and it’s pretty much tied with Seinfeld as my favorite sitcoms of all time 🙂
Hahha Mourning the death of our single lives -i just LOL’d at my desk! I really really need to get my passport already. It’s been on the back burner for so long!
This whole post was SO funny 😀 Love your comment about your ‘serious’ picture- makes me think of our ‘serious’ wedding pictures- SO not either of us!!! We are just not serious people what so ever…and I like it that way 🙂
OMG..speckled poop?! That was CRACKING me up!! 😀
Hi!
I just found your blog through the Fitness mag Fitterati listings. I love it! I’m in Tampa and a newbie runner. Just finished my first halfmarathon- Gasparilla 2012.
I had my passport photo taken when I was 17. Thankfully it expires this year and I can get a new one!!! I thought it would be humorous to make a goofy face- lo and behold – they used it. I’m embarrassed everytime i have to show it!
I’m also going on a cruise the end of April – Carnival 7day out of Tampa.
Are you headed out on the same one?
I’ve been a reader for a year and a half and I have never laughed so much in one post… the only other one that came close was the photo of Sadie with the ‘brocoli being a tiny tree’ caption.
So funny about the senior photos! I only took one as well (it was all I could do to keep from snorting with laughter) and people loved it! The only thing I thought when I looked at it though was, “I look like a giant douche.” I’ve already told our wedding photographer no serious photos.
Have a good weekend!
“it looks like we’re mourning the loss of our single lives” just made me laugh out loud really hard. Because it does look like you’re mourning in that picture. I personally don’t like serious pictures. Especially wedding pictures – your wedding day should be one of the happiest days of your life, why wouldn’t you be smiling the whole time (or nervous/emotional crying which I’m sure will happen to me if I ever get married haha). Anyway, great post !!
the woman who took my passport photo asked if i ever watched Top Model…she told me I could only smile with my eyes! 🙂
They didn’t let me or my husband smile for our passport pics 2 years ago. AWFUL pictures. Exactly like you said – we look like convicts. I would guess the first name question is like someone above mentioned– some people take their maiden name as a middle name after getting married. Or a middle name becomes the 2nd part of your first name, etc. When I applied for my passport (initial) 2 yrs ago I was shocked with the quick turn around time – I had my “appointment” to submit it all around March 20th and my passport arrived 1 month later. They were advertising much longer turnaround times though. Hope you get it back quickly!
HA! When I got married, I actually did change my first name…kind of. My parents named me Kathryn Lindsay McCallister with no intention of ever calling me Kathryn. It has always been a pain. So when I got married, I did an official name change and made my middle name my first name and kept my maiden name. Now I’m Lindsay McCallister Campbell. 🙂 So much simplier!
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