I have been denied a

• MI driver’s license (don’t have enough utility bills to prove I live in the home that I bought)
• An East Lansing library card because I don’t have a MI DL stating that I live in East Lansing
• Sam’s Club card (I know I know Wal-Mart is evvvvillll BUT there is no costco in the Lansing area)

The reason for not having the Sam’s Club Card is that my husband and I don’t have the same address on our NY State licenses.  Why?  Well, I never bothered to change mine from my parents address because why deal with bureaucracy unnecessarily??

But yesterday, I was able to get a library card up in Northern, MI in the area my parents live.  Without a problem!  I didn’t need to be a MI state resident or even live in the area. I just had to pay $5.  Why is it so easy you ask? Because a lot of people summer (funniest verb ever) up here, traveling from downstate MI, Illinois and other Midwestern states, spending a good chunk of their time here to warrant checking out library books.

So I got my library books and was able to check out two Atwood books:

Lady Oracle

AND

Bodily Harm 

OK before I get my Atwood groove on I need to do some laundry, get some coffee, do some writing or reading (not necessarily in that order!)