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Thumbs down:

The Us State Department- Passport Agency. As we are going to Thailand soon and my thrice-revised (twice for errors, once for a new legal mommy) birth certificate finally arrived last week, Mama called the Passport Agency to get an appointment to walk my passport through. The automated line gave her an appointment time of 11:30am on June 16 and gave a confirmation number for the appointment. She gathered all the paperwork, including a notarized form from Mommy saying, yes, I can have a passport. We went down to the city and waited in line. The appointment lady said "you aren't on my list." Mama said "well I have a confirmation number. 11:30 am today." The woman said, "yeah, but you aren't on the list so sorry, you'll have to come back next week." At no time did they do anything with the confirmation number. You know, to try to CONFIRM that we had an appointment.... Anyway, Mama finally convinced them to take the paperwork, it was stamped "approved," and, because of our confirmed non-appointment, we have to go back on monday to pick it up.

Thumbs Up:

Zappos.com- shoes ordered on Wednesday night for Thailand with regular, free shipping arrived today, courtesy of an upgrade to 2-day shipping. I L-O-V-E them.

Rubbermaid Blue Ice Ice Blanket- Mama got this for keeping my bottles cold on the go. It's great because you can cut it to fit any cooler compartment, can wrap it around the bottles, and it fits flat in the freezer so it doesn't take up much room.