[Magdalen] PRS 22 Pentecost

[Marion Thompson]

It's a real Catch-22.  My sympathies.  Deep sigh.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 11/5/2015 3:46 PM, Kristin Rollins wrote:
> A couple of notes on the prayers related to us:
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015, at 02:20 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>> we give thanks as our sister Kristin begins the process of changing her
>> name
>> with various government entities (10/30)
> That process hit an abrupt roadblock Monday morning after two hours of
> waiting at the Social Security office. I was basically told "we can't
> help you today," because my permanent resident card is still in my old
> name. The only problem being that the only way I have have found to tell
> Homeland Security about my name change is to request a new card in my
> new name, a process which takes $450 (more than 11 times the cost of
> actually changing my name) and, I believe, a few months. (I am not sure
> if any document they will send me in the interim would suffice for the
> SSA's purpose.)
>
> Can't change the driver's license until the DMV can look up the new name
> in Social Security's system. Can't change the bank account until I have
> photo ID in the new name.
>
> So next payday, we'll file that form for the green card. And at some
> point, I will see about replacing my birth certificate (which is the
> necessary prerequisite, unless the new government changes something, to
> replacing my Canadian passport).
>
> and…
>
>> + For our animal friends. We pray...
>> as the end of life draws near for Majesty (21), beloved cat of Kristin
>> and
>> Heather (10/27)
> Last Wednesday (10/28) if I recall the day correctly, Majesty died in
> the early morning. Because we have no real yard here that isn't cement
> and being a rental, we took her to a pet cremation service for which we
> have nothing but good things to say. When we returned Saturday morning,
> her ashes were returned to us in a beautiful wooden box with an engraved
> nameplate on the front. Their service was very sympathetic and they only
> made one token effort to upsell beyond their basic service (and that for
> an add-on that, I think, cost less than $20).
>
> Esther -- I'm sorry, the Most Reverend Esther Gabriel Kittenpants, the
> Archbishop of Catterbury -- seems to be adjusting OK. I think she still
> wonders where Maj went sometimes, but does not seem terribly disturbed,
> but sometimes just a little different from usual. But she is a cat of
> routines, and this is the first time she has been the only cat in the
> house, so it is not a surprise that she is missing some of those social
> times (even though Maj would have preferred to be much less social than
> Esther).
>
> Kristin
> .
>