It can’t all be perfect right?

My job is amazing, the place I live is not perfect but a wonderful location. So there has to be at least one downside right? Well funny you should ask, because I am having one hell of a time getting my car registered! Remember how I shipped it over?

Well it showed up right before the 4^th of July weekend. The week of 4^th of July was spent getting a mailing address (P.O. Box) and bank account, and getting married. That done the following Monday (car on island (CoI) 12 days) I called to get insurance set up. That was a Monday. Because I have been in Alaska, and apparently it takes 72 hours to get a driving record from Alaska I wasn’t cleared to get my safety check (requires local insurance) until Wednesday [CoI 14]. The place that was recommended by the insurance place did not have time on Wednesday so I took my car in Thursday for the safety check. Keep in mind I work 8-5 so all of this has to be done during my lunch break, as I have no days off until I have worked for 3 months. So Thursday I get my safety check done, and we have visiting scientists leaving in the on afternoon Friday so we worked through lunch.

Monday morning [CoI 19] I do one final check of papers before heading to the DMV and discover I don’t have my title with me. No big problem right? I bet I left it in my lock box at the condo and forgot to take it out. So that night at home I go through my papers thinking “Odd it should be around here somewhere…” then I start to panic. I have to register my car within 30 days of it being on island (so says all the paperwork). I don’t have my title, and I don’t know where it is. It could be in Alaska (because I forgot it) or Seattle (if I never got it from my parents). I call my husband (who is back in Alaska) and it’s not there, so I call my brother (since my parents are in England and I haven’t heard from there in a week). It is in Seattle. I get him to scan it and a friend to mail it (won’t be here until Thursday). Tuesday I call the DMV and explain the situation. The lady who answers the phone says its no problem they just wont reissue the Hawaii title until I bring the original in. So thinking there is no problem off I go to the DMV. The lady at the counter takes one look at my papers and refuses to issue a registration. Why? For some reason because my WA registration still says “lien on record” they can’t register my car? Oh and now I need my Dads signature since his name is also on the car. I ask “what about the 30 day thing?” and she tells me “Oh don’t worry about it!”. My parents get back from England on the 28^th. It is now Sunday the 24^th [CoI 25] I have the title but don’t have my Dad’s signature.

At least I tried right? I leave on the 3^rd for a week and my car will still have WA plates. So that has been my 2 week car adventure that is still not done. Oh and I need to get a HI drivers license. I hate taking those tests.