You know, it's worth going through all this just to see how many people care! Thank you all!!

I looked at forms and instructions yesterday until everything started to run together, but this morning I'm going to work on it a while before church. It's pretty overwhelming, both the paperwork itself and what it all means.

My phone appointment is at 4:00 in the afternoon, and that concerns me...not my proudest time of day. I'm getting all of my questions typed out, and if the specialist is as nice as the scheduler was, I'm golden. If he/she talks too fast or is intimidating (in my mind) I'm toast.

It's pretty weird. My biggest problem with the application process is the biggest reason I'm applying in the FIRST place:

I'm afraid the cog fog is going to wash over me and I'll put my middle name in the social security number slot, or write the wrong year of my birth or something. And you know how that works--you can proofread something umpteen times, and you still see what you THOUGHT it said the first time!

Or else everything the counselor says will sound like gobbledygook, or I'll start speaking gibberish myself. Stress is not my best friend.