The Travel Diaries: Passport to Adventure, If You Can Get Past the Picture
May 2nd, 2012 by Kimberly
This will be a short entry because something in the wind/pollen/humidity conditions is making my head hurt. After a whole day at work spent in front of a computer, I must put some distance between myself and the monitor. Before I do, however, I had to share with you all, my virtual traveling companions, the very good news – my passport arrived!
My congratulations to the post office, who got the little blue booklet to me in record time. I would have been overjoyed, had I not opened it up to find this staring back at me.
I keep thinking of Erma Bombeck's book, "When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home." Â Home, or to a clinic for immediate treatment? You be the judge.
Egad. It reminds me of the time I used an old sponge to put on foundation and my face broke out in a rash. Either that, or someone ran it through the iPhone App “Face-of-Death Me!”
Oh, well. I’ll be optimistic and figure that for any unfortunate Customs official forced to look at it, this photo will make me look that much better in person.
Of course, now that I have the passport, I am at a crucial moment – I must stop dreaming of travel plans and actually commit to something. Yikes. The pressure!  If I am going to go to all the trouble of sitting on a plane for ten or twelve hours and finding someone to distract Zoe for a week or so from the fact that I am not home AND making people look at this passport picture, I must make sure the experience is worthwhile.
London is definitely on the itinerary, but now I must make the call – Dublin or Edinburgh? Maybe it’s better with a visual.
Do I want to wake up to this…
 
or this?
Really, I’ll be fine either way, as long as I don’t leave my passport on the nightstand. I certainly wouldn’t want to wake up looking at that. Ick.
Contrary to this photo, Kimberly is not actually the victim of a horrible inflammatory disease.  There is no need to start a telethon for her.  If you wanted to work on a merger between the passport office and Annie Liebovitz, however, she won’t stop you.
ROTF LMBO!!!! Kimberly, you CRACK ME UP!!!! And for the record, your passport picture looks JUST fine! 🙂 I have London on my list as well as Italy, Greece, South Africa, Aruba, Indonesia, Egypt… the darned list keeps growing!
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