Ughhhhhh!!!!!

I made mention, in my first post, that I'm not a very patient person. Well, up until today I thought I'd been doing pretty well. The gathering of all the paperwork required for the dossier and the home study could easily lead to a nervous breakdown. Birth certificates, police clearances, fingerprints, background checks, medical forms, CPR certificates, financial forms, insurance verifications and, even, a document proving that our dog Teddy is up to date on his vaccinations.........to name a few! Though this endless paper trail could discourage the faint of heart, I've managed to remain upbeat and confident that I could knock it all out in record time. And I have been.....until this week. It all began when I tried to have my notarized "Power of Attorney" letter (don't ask what that is, just go with it) county clerk certified at the Brooklyn court house. After waiting in line, I was told that my notary was commissioned in Queens, so I would have to go there to have it done. Then they told me to wait until their superior came back from lunch, just to make sure. I wait another 20 minutes only for her to come, take a half a second look at my paper and then tell me to go to Queens. "Okay", I thought, "No big deal. I mean, there's bound to be a glitch or two in this process." I get back to work and go to make a photo copy of our police clearances, which had already been county clerk certified....only to realize that they mistakenly printed two clearances with Brian's name on it and forgot to do mine............Now I have to go back to the police station, clear all of that up and hope they don't charge me again, and, then, go to the county clerk's office for another certification. -Take a deep breath- No problem. I can do this. I get up today and go to the Queens county clerk's office, the nassau police station and the Nassau county clerk's office. "Alright", I thought, "I'm back on track and moving forward again." I headed for our doctors office. Brian's and my doctor are in the same office building. We each had our physicals and needed each of our doctors to fill out an examination form and a write a letter of recommendation. Each of these documents needed to be notarized. Brian's doctor sent back his examination form signed, but not notarized, so I had to get a new one from our home study agency for him to fill out again. I brought all of the documents to their office and specifically told one of the nurses that they had to fill them out and, then, make sure they don't sign it with a different date than the date the notary signs it. My adoption agency will not accept it that way and neither will Ethiopia. I get to the office and they can't find the documents. I wait twenty minutes as they take turns accusing one another of having had them last. Finally, they surface. As I look them over, I see that each one of them has been signed by the doctor on a different date than the notary's signature. They're worthless and I have to ask my agency to send yet another set of new documents in the mail and start the process all over again........This is where the patience began to run out. I did everything in my power not to flip out on everyone in the office, including the cute little old lady quietly sitting in the corner waiting to be called for her appointment. I was successful and managed to make it out of the building being guilty of nothing more than giving everyone a very insincere smile and "good bye". What's next? Will I fail my CPR course?.......Can someone fail a CPR course?