Name and gender change update! After getting a letter on Saturday, I purchased five "official" copies of my court order on Monday morning and then proceeded to Social Security on that very same afternoon to, BOOM!💥, change my vitals with them.
This morning was more waiting at the DMV for a new license, vehicle registration and title. But now, BOOM!💥, that's done too.
Your girl Elizabeth Anne Melton here doesn't just wait around for the paperwork to happen all by itself. 😁🥳😊🥰💖
@SnarkWasABoojum Thanks! And, yeah, I'm a go-going so hard today. Just finished the paperwork and got my photo for the new passport, picked up a voter registration form, and trying to schedule with my son and notary so we can complete the paperwork to change his birth certificate. 😂
Please tell me this will eventually end. 🤦♀️
@lisamelton It ends. Well, the big stuff ends. The "long tail" seems to go on more or less forever, but I found that I increasingly cared less and less. I mean, drivers license - important, passport - important, voter registration - REALLY important. Random "points" account for some hotel I stayed at years ago? Eh - whatever.
I made a policy for myself and it worked out well for the less important stuff. If I didn't use the unimportant account, I'd close it. If I still used that unimportant account, I'd change the name. If they gave me any grief at all (generally with a "we need to see a copy of your court order") I'd close it instead. If I ever need that account in the future, I’ll just open a new one. It's sort of bizarrely amusing that many companies want a court order to change a name, but it's a-ok to simply close the account and open a new one with the new name.
Lisa Melton
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