drivers license

i have been dreading the expiration date on my drivers license for two years now. I turned 26 on Feb 22, 2009 for those of you that didn't know and for those of you who did and forgot to say Feliz Cumple, shame on you, (just kidding I probably forgot your birthday, now we are even.)

i realized last week that my drivers license had expired on my bday and I really didn't want to get a Maine license because the picture on my Utah license is cute (also, my health goal is that I will someday not let the numbers on my drivers license make a liar out of me.)

my wonderful and non procrastinating husband has been waking me up every morning before he leaves for work saying, "now Bethie, what is your top priority today?", and wont leave until I have mumbled, "get drivers license". This morning he even left the renewal website up on the computer as an added reminder.

so i called Utah because I couldn't renew online and they said it wasn't possible to renew because i am in Maine and the license is already expired, upon which I explained that I was not staying in Maine and was only here until my husband finished school. Upon which they said, we still cant help you but call salt lake. i called salt lake and used my nicest voice and finally some girl named Hollie gave me the codes i needed to renew online, i am pretty sure she was sick of my sweet voice.

i am feeling pretty good that a new license is on its way. i call my husband to hear is accolades for finally doing what he has been asking me for days to do and which a grown adult shouldn't have to be asked to do anyway, and hurry on my way to take William to the Children's Museum.

i am almost home from meeting friends at the Children's museum with William when i look down and realize i am going way too fast. my speedometer reads 50. i think to myself, slow down you have no license and even though i am literally 1/2 mile from home where i never see police, i look up and there is a laser gun pointed in my direction, what are the odds? i must have just slowed down in the nick of time because i got away unscathed. Later that night I went out to meet my girlfriend and was so involved in deep thought about nothing that I ran a red light at a busy intersection in Portsmouth. I mean the light wasn't turning red from yellow it was red and I never saw its yellow or green.

the moral of the long drawn out story is
1.) that you should renew your license on time like an adult
2.) when in the mood to blog people will make absurd attempts to turn trivial daily happenings into stories, which other people will not read or be annoyed when they finish reading and realize there is no middle or end to the story.
3.) most people care what there drivers license picture looks like except my husband
4.) when thinking too hard about not to do something we inevitably do that something we were trying to avoid, like not drive poorly to avoid police attention

Well maybe the 4th one is just me. Either way until my new license comes I am thinking of alternative forms of transport.