who knew moving to another state took so long to set everything up?
we finally changed Staci's last name the day before we moved in August (9 months after we were married :) and have yet to get new ID's reflecting the change. we secured our new apartment over a month ago and haven't stopped running since! new insurance, updating mailing addresses, applying for new utilities (and subsequently having to contact the old utility companies for references), blah blah blah.
needless to say we're tired! we still have much to do. I received a letter in the mail stating my AZ registered vehicle has no AZ auto insurance. so they decided (on a whim sounds like) that they were going to cancel my vehicle registration. in 6 days. ouch. so last friday Staci and I decided to get all of our stuff together to go the the Texas DPS office (DMV) and update our vehicle registration, DL's, vehicle titles, etc. we got up early, headed across town and got to the front desk 3 hours before I had to be to work a few miles a way, plenty of time to get everything vehicle oriented taken care of. they asked what we needed. "we just moved here from AZ, and need to get updated vehicle registration and driver's licenses". "you can't do that here. not yet. first the vehicles need inspected, with an inspection sticker, then you need to go register them with the state, then come back here with the information they give you and we'll get you new licenses."
(Whaaaaaaaat?!) "ok, then we'll just get our updated DL's today and get the inspection done later," I said.
"can't do that, we need the inspection and registration done independently before we'll update your license. 'NEXT!' "
oh. my. gosh. I hate that man. we spent the next 3 hours trying to jump through all their stupid little hoops, finishing most of them. first we went to several auto shops looking for someone to 'inspect' our vehicles. ($80) next we were told Staci's mustang wouldn't pass unless she put 2 new tires on ($178). we still have yet to register the vehicles or even update our IDs!
someday we'll finish our 'new apartment checklist' but not today. I'm again off to the DMV!
