Social security blues

I'll be 40 by the time i get my social security number.

Here's the TINY stressor. My social security number will arrive maybe , at the end of the month.

I can't apply for credit cards until i get a social security number.

I can't buy a car without a social security number.

I can't open a telephone line, or do anything major until i get a credit card.

I can't get a credit card until i get a social security.

I need a car by june 18.

I can't get a car until july maybe.

Ladeedadadadadadad....

I don't want to use a credit card but it's a necessity. Americans don't use real money. They use plastics. I say, let's go back to the old days and just use salt. What's the sense of making all those benjamins if you are just going to use plastic? But hey, i do know the reason behind. Fraud, fake moneys...

The thing is, they don't allow us, j1 visa-ers, to get into the US 30 days before work starts. Which leaves me no time to get everything in order. Social security takes 10 to 14 days after the immigration verifies that you are in their land, which, in their website might take about 4 weeks. Meanwhile, i'm in limbo. Worse case scenario is that it would take me six weeks to get a social security number. So that would take me to mid july. Wrinkles! Hello retinol.

So now, i might have to take my cousin's 2007 honda civic, drive it 165 miles in the freeway (whaat?!!) to my place, wait until july or august rolls by then drive it back 165 miles. Return it. Then , then, buy a car and drive it 165 miles... Gosh. I really don't like driving alone. I like jogging alone, but when it comes to driving... Well, it would be nice to have someone in the passenger seat yakking.

Big J... Uhmm Big J... i know i shouldn't stress. But i am stressing. I need a diet pepsi and some baked cheetos.

Weight watchers..
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Poochini, one of the dogs back home, a japanese spitz, died several days after i left for the US.

He wasn't really my dog, so when i got the news, I wasn't that sad.

But if my dog , Frankie, dies, I will be really really sad to the point of clinical depression.

You know how in some movies there would be a kid who gets really attached to his dog? Who treats a dog like his bestfriend or something? I'm not talking about having a dog ala Paris Hilton.. I'm talking about that weird connection certain people have with faithful dogs. Anyhoo, I'm that kid.

Some people have music as their timeline. Me i have my dogs.

The first time i cried a lot , publicly, was when my first dog, Bully died.

When Bully was born, I was the only one allowed by the mommy dog to be there. Some mother dogs don't like it when other people come near their puppies. They get angry or something.
My parents warned me to stay away from the mommy dog but i would be up early in the morning making her some milk... Now i know from medical school that they could make milk even if they don't drink milk. But hey i was a kid then who knew nothing about biochemistry and endocrinology.


Those were great memories though.

what was i talking about? Oh yeah social security.