YAAAAY!!!! Looks like it's just you and me at the moment girly!!

Trying to figure out the whole AOS spreadsheet thing... thinking maybe it would be easier to put separate columns for AP/EAD - whatcha reckon? Also how do you freeze panes? I am highlighting the cells and selecting freeze/unfreeze panes but they still move! Grr!!

Don't laugh but I'm browsing cheese. I have a wee panic. I forgot the scottish cheeses for my cheeseboard for tomorrow evening/night/sunday morning's party. The burns night is not complete without it's scottish cheeseboard served late evening with a glass of Scottish bramble or elderberry wine! Got to have an emergency dash to Mellis Cheesemongers in Glasgow tomorrow and hope they can help. Ian the manager usually can. He's helped me out of a dinner cheeseboard pickle before, I have every faith he can do it again.

Ohhhhh yummy - I love cheese Cheese and port... a nice camembert... or brie... or a good mature farmhouse cheddar...

You realise that most Americans don't seem to know Cheddar is so named because it originates from the place Cheddar, just down the road from me? Jeremy was so surprised - he is also now a converted cheese lover - he never knew what I was on about until he actually tried *real* cheese!!

So any ideas on the spreadsheet? I should be writing my vows but...

Helloooooooooooooooooo!!

Partying at 2pm feels so strange!

May I join? I have no wine, but can offer Robinson's apple and blackcurrant squash (it's a similar colour, right?)

cheese and wine are my 2 main vices. Nick always said he loved cheese so I took him to Mellis' in Glasgow, now it is a REAL cheesemonger, they mature various cheeses on site so the shop stinks but he loved it. I got him eating real cheese. He still won't drink winr though. Mainly as he doesn't drink at all. His choice and he doesn't mind me enjoying my wine and will join me with some alcohol free alternatives.

I need to work on my vows too but I don't even know where to start.

Haha! Gillian! Glad you could make it! Enjoying the life of luxury before the reality of AOS/EAD/AP etc kicks in?!

Hope you have your wine ready!

I have no wine either - it's coffee for me.

of course...welcome. *Hands over a glass of wine!*

I'm enjoying not waiting for anything right now. We'll probably get married in about 3 weeks then I'll have AOS to look forward to.

It's friday....who cares!!!! and it's my b'day weekend. Ok not my b'day until Sunday but hell, make the most of it.

ooo creeping closer and closer to 30!

Now you make me want to cry.

Oh to be 30 again.

I have a toyboy to keep me young though.

Hehe - it is all so exciting - I love hanging out with you guys - makes me feel less scared!!!

Have decided - on the spreadsheet am going to do the AOS/EAD/AP separately and highlight them different colours Yay!! Hehe!!

Ahh - parties on forums are confusing - you say something then you have 20 posts to read!!!

Happy preemptive birthday! As for the wine - cheers!

Is there anyone who didn't write their own vows?



Younger men are the best

Haha - mine is younger too - only by a year though Debz - we should have an IM vow-writing brainstorm session... although it will have to be soon as I need them - like in a couple weeks!! AHHHHH!!!

You know I haven't really thought much about AOS. I spent all my time concentrating on getting the K1 and moving here that I haven't even looked at what we need to do once we're married.

I'm going to get my SSN on Wednesday or Thursday so then I can start looking at bank accounts and getting a car and such. Not looking forward to re-learning how to drive though.

yeah...nick is 5years, 8 months younger than me!

Scott is 15 months younger than me - it was his 40th last Monday.

Happy Birthday for Sunday Debz.

Definatly.....or I could just call you sometime with the 100s of free mins I never use

Thank you...there will be much eating drinking and music making tomorrow evening. Having a burns supper

@ Debz - Hehe - we might have to do that - I'll give you a shout when I h ave actually looked at something!!

@Gillian - I am so going to be like that!! Although we want to get things done asap... purely because we don't have a lot of money so I need to get working asap... will be nice to put my feet up for a bit after all this is over though!! It'll be fine - I am sure it can't be any more complicated than the K-1 process

Famous last words...

Alex is three years younger than me - 21; just a baby!

I thought (when we were friends, before we started dating) that the height difference (he is shorter than me) and the age difference would bother me, but, you know, it really doesn't.

The only problem is that people keep thinking we are high-schoolers.

Jeraly, since you're in California maybe you can answer this question for me - from what I've been looking at online, you have to both go in person to obtain a marriage license at least a month before your wedding. Is this correct?

I imagine so if we get married in Cali - but we are going to get married in Vegas, NV so who knows?! I haven't got to that point yet

I'm hoping to get my visa by March/April (not sending packet 3 back til end of Feb/beginning March) so I can have a few months to figure out the UK celebration, the US wedding and the AOS stuff!! As well as organise my life to up and leave the country!!!

nick 21 too

I used to think that someone being younger than me was a big deal - I went out with older guys for a while and ended up with Jeremy - I don't have anything to worry about with height though as he is 6'4

Ah, no worries then. I don't need to know for a while either, but I figured I might as well ask while you were here!

I'm loving the Gertrude poll thread; I can't decide what's funnier - people's messages of condolences, or the clueless VJers wondering what's going on.

I don't know how you keep up with it!! I have always meant to ask how people surf VJ... I mean everyone must have a specific style right?

Me, I tend to hang out mostly in the K1 updates and status section so I just refresh that. But when I am in work and it isn't busy I tend to mark all the other forums as read, check the threads I look at (mainly K-1, UK, Moving here forums) then mark them as read when I am done so I can just refresh the whole main forum page again to see what is new

New AOS sheet is looking pretty - going to be lots to keep updated but we'll start from scratch with the people who show their faces here rather than the original July list - a lot of people aren't very active or hang out with the July bunch

I only dated older people too. Nick is the only younger person.

I just randomly click around VJ and see what I find


ooooo found some nice cheeses!!!


need to dash for few mins....phone call! But I'll be back

I jump around from forum to forum, mainly Off Topic, United Kingdom, this forum and the Polls forum, but almost any forum will do when I'm bored! I use firefox and have several tabs open at once. I also browse several other non-VJ forums. I guess I'm just a lightning-fast browser (usually a fast typer too, but right now I'm doing this one-handed).

Haha - ok - in the meantime - check out the new AOS tab on the July spreadsheet

It's more to keep tabs on how we are all doing rather than use it as a measure like we have for K-1 Colour coded for easy use!!

Haha - I use firefox as well - I've been playing with the spreadsheet Thing is I only have one VJ tab open at a time because I also have facebook, my e-mail, a game and the spreadsheet open

Oh - can I add checking through my wedding timeline from my wedding planner to my multi-tasking list!!!

Aly, the bean bag in your avatar looks like a fortune cookie and it's making me hungry.

Back to the age difference thing...my Jeremy is 11 years younger than me, think I might have y'all beat, hehe.

For browsing, I am usually looking through the general k-1 forum first, then I flip to the july filers thread, then canada (tho they aren't very interesting, lol).

Hey! Yeah it does!! Hehe - you need a beanbag!! You're the only official veteran/grad here and you're the only one (almost) without a beanbag!!!

Yay! CBR you joined us!!!

I find I also only look at certain threads as well - I always check the new posts on my main threads then anything new that looks interesting

I know, but I like my avatar. Perhaps I could put a Union Jack bean bag in my signature?

Yeah!! Why not?!? Hehe!! Audrey has a chaise longue (or however you spell it) I want something more interesting now though - I picked the colour because it reminds me of sunshine but everyone elses seem to be more interesting!!

I think I'm going to wait on the beanbag until I BELONG here lol. Still waiting on the elusive noa2.
That way I can join you guys now, but adding the beanbag can signify my graduation to the next step .

Has anybody seen "I am Legend"...the new movie with Will Smith as the last survivor on earth? I want to take my daughter to see that this weekend and was wondering if it's good.

Nope - haven't heard of it but I am a bit of a film... lame-o? I'm useless!! About the only time I see new films are on planes!!!

On another note - I love my wedding planner!! She has done our wedding timeline and omg I am sooo happy to have her - she thinks of everything!!!

Now I have a bean bag.

Yay!

Ok - time to help get the groceries in - will be back reaaaaall soon!!!!

I forgot all about this happening today, sorry. I haven't caught up on everything, but here are some random additions of my own:

I am 15 years older than my Natasha.

I have seen "I Am Legend" and found it interesting, but oddly flat (especially in the last third), but I still enjoyed it.

I bought my plane tickets today for myself, Natasha, and her daughter Vika. Now I just have to find an apartment in Moscow for our stay.

I read the new topics on the home page first, then I usually read this thread, followed by the Russian thread.

Cheers!

Did someone mention wine? Click to view attachment

Ok, I'll try:

"This visa process is taking far too long! The USCIS sucks the worst, followed by the NVC help line!"

Oh wait, you said wine.....

You absolutely have to hang out in the Canada Forum. It's a hoot.

(Sorry. Trying to catch up here. )




I have so much fun there!

*hands KG some cheese to go with whine*

Haha - this is kinda sick/cute depending on how you want to look at it. But when I want some wine or I ask Jeremy if he fancies opening a bottle or something, I'll ask, or he'll mention it then we look at each other and in unison say "whi-i-i-i-ine" in a whiny voice... it's really daft but it makes us giggle everytime...

Sad thing is, my brother and his gf have loads of cute stuff they do like that and I always found it really cool and wished Jeremy and I could find something unique to us - I guess it just develops though