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StillThePrettiest
exCUSE me, he is a maverick spaceship pilot called Mal, and I don't know anything about any Joey Buchanans tongue.gif
*julez*
Aww, c'mon just tell me his real name. Please.
StillThePrettiest
Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of the Serenity, Firefly class tongue.gif

*julez*
Nathan C. Fillion (born March 27, 1971) is a Canadian actor, known for his lead role in the television series Firefly.

Fillion moved to New York City in 1994 where he acted in the soap opera One Life to Live as Joey Buchanan.

I don't know no nuthin bout no Firefly but I do know my 90's soap opera characters!!
StillThePrettiest
*tannoy crackling*

'people, we have a Captain Literal... yes, last seen in the July 2007 K-1 Filers thread... she may be armed, but doesn't seem all that dangerous... most certainly literal though, so keep your wits about you'

tongue.gif

he's MAL

Jeraly
QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Apr 2 2008, 05:57 PM) *
don't stress... it will be FINE

take some time tonight to make some checklists, and start ticking things off... you have time to get everything you need, and now you've got the medical date you're laughing - anything else you need you CAN catch up on afterward, even if that's a bit sub-optimal... just don't let it freak you out smile.gif

don't go overboard with the evidence of ongoing relationship, either... I haven't heard of ANYone needing to show it through London recently, and you don't want to kill trees for no reason biggrin.gif


Ahh - checklist tonight is not an option due to Apprentice wink.gif In fact my main priority tonight is to drink a bottle of wine laughing.gif I figure the only thing I *really* need to get the ball rolling on is the letter about my 7-years-ago depression from my doctor. I can't do anything about that until tomorrow anyway and the printing and organising I am going to do over the weekend...

I just don't know how much evidence they want for ongoing relationship and you just know that as soon as I don't bother, they will want to see it!

QUOTE(rae_and_scott @ Apr 2 2008, 05:59 PM) *
QUOTE(Jeraly @ Apr 2 2008, 12:44 PM) *
QUOTE(rae_and_scott @ Apr 2 2008, 05:35 PM) *

I am so stressed today.


good.gif good.gif good.gif

Can we be stressed together?! I am freaking about it all being so soon!!

Yes we can.

I will gladly trade you interview dates if you'd like. tongue.gif


*hugs*

I'm sorry - as much as I am freaking, I am soooo glad I have it so soon so I can get it out of the way... Double whammy as well with my medical... what actually takes so long about it anyway?! Prolly all the undressing and dressing biggrin.gif
*julez*
QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Apr 2 2008, 03:27 PM) *
*tannoy crackling*

'people, we have a Captain Literal... yes, last seen in the July 2007 K-1 Filers thread... she may be armed, but doesn't seem all that dangerous... most certainly literal though, so keep your wits about you'

tongue.gif

he's MAL


Stop messing with my LIFE.

You, madam, are becoming a bully.
StillThePrettiest
sad.gif

boo

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cray5ol.gif
Jeraly
Aww - now look who's the bully!

*hugs StP*
StillThePrettiest
*snuffles*

cray5ol.gif

*peeks out through fingers to see if Julez is looking*

tongue.gif
*julez*
QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Apr 2 2008, 03:49 PM) *
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boo

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cray5ol.gif


I'm sowwie...I didn't know you were such a sensitive marshmallow. sad.gif

Friends? rose.gif
StillThePrettiest
guess she WAS looking biggrin.gif

*shares marshmallows*

biggrin.gif
mox
Dammit, had to go do real work and then DHL the last of the documents off to...um...Pleasantly. biggrin.gif biggrin.gif

So...WHOA!! That is such a cool picture!! Damn. Is he...is he as dangerous in real life?!?!

Seriously that's the coolest thing I've seen in ages. I so want a picture with Kaylee. wub.gif
*julez*
QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Apr 2 2008, 04:14 PM) *
guess she WAS looking biggrin.gif

*shares marshmallows*

biggrin.gif


aww fanks...maybe we can make s'mores together sometime biggrin.gif
StillThePrettiest
believe it or not, I have never had a s'more, though I have heard of their joys through other yankee friends wink.gif

and mox: yes. yes, he is tongue.gif

and Kaylee is gorgeous, but Mal is the Captain biggrin.gif

(PS I met Wash on the same day cool.gif )
mox
QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Apr 2 2008, 01:35 PM) *
(PS I met Wash on the same day cool.gif )

So...before that dreadful...spikey incident? Poor Zoe. Poor, poor Zoe. I don't know that she's ever going to get over that. cray5ol.gif
StillThePrettiest
she's torn up plenty, but she'll fly true wink.gif
mox
QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Apr 2 2008, 01:44 PM) *
she's torn up plenty, but she'll fly true wink.gif

blink.gif Oh no you did not.

Marry me. Right here, right now, with the entire July 2007 K-1 filers thread as our witness, and you can be Inara and I'll be Mal and we'll move in to a house together and spend our life turning the interior of it into the Firefly, and we'll have lots of kids and name them Zoe and River and Kaylee and Jayne and...

Oh. Except...you're probably my separated-at-birth sister, right? Gross. nm. Um...wanna play Scrabble?
StillThePrettiest
laughing.gif

I wonder if that's ever happened for real? not the Mal and Inara thing *huge gusty sigh* but the swapping-USCs-on-VJ thing laughing.gif
mox
QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Apr 2 2008, 02:03 PM) *
laughing.gif

I wonder if that's ever happened for real? not the Mal and Inara thing *huge gusty sigh* but the swapping-USCs-on-VJ thing laughing.gif

Huh. I never thought of that before. I've certainly not read of it happening, but it seems likely. You've got all the right ingredients here on VJ: love, longing, drama, pent-up frustrations, the wuv emoticon...all that's missing is Barry White.
CBR
QUOTE(rae_and_scott @ Apr 2 2008, 11:35 AM) *
Actually as soon as I posted that I thought maybe it was not the best answer, realizing it's a K1, but really, it *IS* proof of your ongoing relationship! LOL

CBR, my guess is your letter is fine. MTL must be aware that since they take forever (or have, in the past) to dole out interviews, some docs must end up being a couple months old.

And get this, my lawyer is actually telling us we need to wait until we have all docs before we send back our checklist. I'm having email arguments with her back & forth. Whatever. We're sending that checklist tomorrow.

I am so stressed today.


I would be stressed too! Stupid lawyer mad.gif . Why is she insisting on having all the docs with the checklist but she must have sent those DS forms alone right? Good for you sending it tomorrow anyway...I would too!
rae_and_scott
QUOTE(CBR @ Apr 2 2008, 05:36 PM) *
I would be stressed too! Stupid lawyer mad.gif . Why is she insisting on having all the docs with the checklist but she must have sent those DS forms alone right? Good for you sending it tomorrow anyway...I would too!

*sigh*
She told me:
"I know of one applicant who was given a very hard time at his interview because a couple of the documents were dated after he had signed the checklist."
I told her I am aware of plenty of other couples who send the checklist in first, while they obtain the rest of the documents.

So I am insisting that it be mailed, end of story. That with the other forms from before and a spiffy cover letter saying that they should honor our March 14 deliver date. I think they should -- I mean, the instructions in P3 *do* actually say to send the checklist back once all those documents have been gotten, so we can't be the only couple who's sent it in later. Of course I don't expect much from Montreal right now, since they are completely ignoring us, but it can't hurt to ask them to do the right thing.

Well we are going to send the stuff Friday, since she is sending Scott the DS forms again (he hadn't made copies) tonight and I want everything together.

And to Julez, StP, and mox: I have no idea what you guys are talking about, but you're still very entertaining! biggrin.gif
Jeraly
QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Apr 2 2008, 09:35 PM) *
believe it or not, I have never had a s'more, though I have heard of their joys through other yankee friends wink.gif

and mox: yes. yes, he is tongue.gif

and Kaylee is gorgeous, but Mal is the Captain biggrin.gif

(PS I met Wash on the same day cool.gif )


Ohhh I know - they sound sooo good but I never had one sad.gif

QUOTE(mox @ Apr 2 2008, 10:33 PM) *
QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Apr 2 2008, 02:03 PM) *
laughing.gif

I wonder if that's ever happened for real? not the Mal and Inara thing *huge gusty sigh* but the swapping-USCs-on-VJ thing laughing.gif

Huh. I never thought of that before. I've certainly not read of it happening, but it seems likely. You've got all the right ingredients here on VJ: love, longing, drama, pent-up frustrations, the wuv emoticon...all that's missing is Barry White.


We should post somewhere and find out... Hey - remember that dead parrot prize from the CSC sweepstake? We can use that as a prize for the first person to find an example wink.gif
mox
QUOTE(rae_and_scott @ Apr 2 2008, 02:43 PM) *
And to Julez, StP, and mox: I have no idea what you guys are talking about, but you're still very entertaining! biggrin.gif

Go to wherever you rent DVD's and rent the first couple Firefly DVD's. Be prepared to not get anything done for the rest of the weekend except returning the first 2 and renting the next ones. I know people who hate SciFi that went out and just bought the boxed set after watching the first DVD. It's simply one of the best TV series ever, and it was canceled after one season.

QUOTE(Jeraly @ Apr 2 2008, 02:53 PM) *
Hey - remember that dead parrot prize from the CSC sweepstake? We can use that as a prize for the first person to find an example wink.gif

Wowowow...the CSC sweepstakes. That seems *so* long ago!
rae_and_scott
QUOTE(mox @ Apr 2 2008, 05:56 PM) *
Go to wherever you rent DVD's and rent the first couple Firefly DVD's. Be prepared to not get anything done for the rest of the weekend except returning the first 2 and renting the next ones. I know people who hate SciFi that went out and just bought the boxed set after watching the first DVD. It's simply one of the best TV series ever, and it was canceled after one season.

All my local rental places closed down. sad.gif Damn Netflix (which I don't belong to).

Re: smores

I cannot believe you guys have never had smores!! Did you never go camping as children? Course now there are restaurants that serve them, little blue flame and all.

Or you can just put a big marshmallow in the microwave and watch it explode. That's fun too.
StillThePrettiest
of course I went camping as children! well, as a child tongue.gif
just not in America tongue.gif

should I start with all the things I can't believe you guys have never done/eaten/seen? tongue.gif wink.gif

maybe I'll tell you some stories about sharks... or huge spiders... wink.gif



I have to say, hand on heart, that mox only speaks truth about Firefly... just simply one of the best shows EVER, and due to a tragic lack of vision by Fox, cancelled before the end of its first season sad.gif mad.gif

however, there was a semi-happy ending, which was NOT expected - the film Serenity was made a couple of years later, and while not a substitute for all the episodes we missed, still neatly ties up some loose ends and gives us a little more than we had before smile.gif

(forget hiring one disc though... just get the box set; you won't regret it wink.gif )
Jeraly
QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Apr 3 2008, 05:59 AM) *
of course I went camping as children! well, as a child tongue.gif
just not in America tongue.gif

should I start with all the things I can't believe you guys have never done/eaten/seen? tongue.gif wink.gif

maybe I'll tell you some stories about sharks... or huge spiders... wink.gif

Yeah - camping for us meant playing scrabble and going on day trips to the beach smile.gif It's very rare here in the UK that you can find places that will let you have campfires as well - barbeques are ok but fires tend to be a big no no unless there are designated fire pits... I have seen those maybe once...

I have to say, hand on heart, that mox only speaks truth about Firefly... just simply one of the best shows EVER, and due to a tragic lack of vision by Fox, cancelled before the end of its first season sad.gif mad.gif

however, there was a semi-happy ending, which was NOT expected - the film Serenity was made a couple of years later, and while not a substitute for all the episodes we missed, still neatly ties up some loose ends and gives us a little more than we had before smile.gif

(forget hiring one disc though... just get the box set; you won't regret it wink.gif )
StP - do you have my e-mail address?! If you do then e-mail me the name of the series because I know this post will get buried and then i will forget and I'll never see it - I can dig it out when I move then and watch it while waiting for Jeremy to come home from work biggrin.gif He joined netflix and they are really good.


Kinda getting excited now about the interview in an oh-my-god-I'm-dreading-it-but-at-least-it-will-be-over way...

Trying to decide on what to wear to the medical that will minimise risk of doctor wanting to look at my bits... maybe he'll take one look at my chest and realise there is no doubt laughing.gif
StillThePrettiest
not a hope in HELL laughing.gif

I'd already had my breast check - bra off n'all - and, well, let's just say the Boobie Goddess was very generous to me wink.gif

however, I still had to flash the doctor tongue.gif wink.gif


don't have your email, no... can you PM it to me?
Jeraly
Oh damn sad.gif Bra off as well?! Eww - I'll bruise my knees!!! Ah well - am sure they have seen it all before tongue.gif Still sucks though sad.gif

I just heard that some people had got away without having to flash wink.gif
StillThePrettiest
I bet they've seen all that and more laughing.gif

and you might be lucky, I just doubt it though wink.gif

don't worry about it... it's so surreal it's sort of funny biggrin.gif

Jeraly
My mum laughed so much when I told her!!

And yuck... I hate getting my boobs out!!!

So what exactly makes it all take so long?!
StillThePrettiest
well, I don't know that I can answer that question; with both the medical and the interview I had the earliest slot available, so my medical took less than two hours (mainly waiting about, and the guy had to re-do the x-ray because he said the first was unclear) and my interview took ninety minutes smile.gif

you can read the medical reviews for a blow-by-blow account... it's really not that scary, specially when you know what to expect smile.gif
Jeraly
Yeah - I've just been looking at the POE reviews as well - LAX looks nice biggrin.gif I am soo happy about that at least wink.gif

Will look at the other reviews a bit later I think - I know I have read so many before but still...
*julez*
Our AOS checkk was cashed last night! dancin5hr.gif
Jeraly
Yay! NOA soon then!! Woohoo!! I can update the spreadsheet some more!! Oh - anyone not on the AOS sheet who wants to be had better tell me - I keep meaning to try and find active people on this thread but I end up having to do PAID work mad.gif

Oh - and I just spoke to my doctor and she has written me a letter about my depression to take to my medical!! YAY!!! I can pick it up tomorrow - I just have to pay for it wacko.gif
*julez*
QUOTE(Jeraly @ Apr 3 2008, 09:18 AM) *
Yay! NOA soon then!! Woohoo!! I can update the spreadsheet some more!! Oh - anyone not on the AOS sheet who wants to be had better tell me - I keep meaning to try and find active people on this thread but I end up having to do PAID work mad.gif

Oh - and I just spoke to my doctor and she has written me a letter about my depression to take to my medical!! YAY!!! I can pick it up tomorrow - I just have to pay for it wacko.gif


BTW, I looked at the spreadsheet and wanted to let you know that my stuff was all filed at Chicago too!

Great news about the letter! Stinks you have to pay, but worthwhile just the same!! By this time next week you'll be done and dusted!!
Jeraly
I know! I can't believe that by the time I found out the date of the interview it was still a "this-time-next-week" situation - A week from when I found out the date it would all be over!!

It's kinda scary to think of - it will be pending medical results and I am still a little concerned about the police certificate but... Ah well - worst case is that I post them the new one if they get funny about it... I have all the evidence that K-1 is non-immigrant and that we don't need to have the new one but...

Ah who knows? wink.gif
mox
*Kramer entrance*

Boobs?

Dammit. Why is it that I'm always late to the boob discussion?
rae_and_scott
QUOTE(StillThePrettiest @ Apr 3 2008, 12:59 AM) *
of course I went camping as children! well, as a child tongue.gif
just not in America tongue.gif

should I start with all the things I can't believe you guys have never done/eaten/seen? tongue.gif wink.gif

maybe I'll tell you some stories about sharks... or huge spiders... wink.gif

Actually, I would love to hear about that stuff!
And I know you are just poking fun StP, but I didn't mean to have that typical American assumption of all children must have grown up doing the same stuff we did kind of attitude.
I just think everybody should try smores. wink.gif

QUOTE(Jeraly @ Apr 3 2008, 05:07 AM) *
Yeah - camping for us meant playing scrabble and going on day trips to the beach smile.gif

Now *that's* my kind of camping! I actually never was crazy about camping, but that sounds great!
BabyBlueSusie
i feel like i just cheated on visajourney.com ohmy.gif

this is the first forum that i have ever taken part in, and i feel very commited to the site...today, however i came across albanian.com and its respective forums...very interesting topics indeed, in fact, i spent the whole morning reading over several of them...there are a lot of non-albanian (american, british, etc) women on there who are with albanian men, and there are pages and pages about whether albanian men just use them, (for sex mostly) or whether they will actually ever marry a non-albanian woman...oy vey the controversy wacko.gif i haven't posted yet (as of now im just spectating), but it is inevitable...i hope that visajourney understands sad.gif
mox
QUOTE(babybluesusie @ Apr 3 2008, 10:25 AM) *
i feel like i just cheated on visajourney.com ohmy.gif

this is the first forum that i have ever taken part in, and i feel very commited to the site...today, however i came across albanian.com and its respective forums...very interesting topics indeed, in fact, i spent the whole morning reading over several of them...there are a lot of non-albanian (american, british, etc) women on there who are with albanian men, and there are pages and pages about whether albanian men just use them, (for sex mostly) or whether they will actually ever marry a non-albanian woman...oy vey the controversy wacko.gif i haven't posted yet (as of now im just spectating), but it is inevitable...i hope that visajourney understands sad.gif

How...how could you? I thought what we had was special! cray5ol.gif
BabyBlueSusie
QUOTE(mox @ Apr 3 2008, 01:45 PM) *
QUOTE(babybluesusie @ Apr 3 2008, 10:25 AM) *
i feel like i just cheated on visajourney.com ohmy.gif

this is the first forum that i have ever taken part in, and i feel very commited to the site...today, however i came across albanian.com and its respective forums...very interesting topics indeed, in fact, i spent the whole morning reading over several of them...there are a lot of non-albanian (american, british, etc) women on there who are with albanian men, and there are pages and pages about whether albanian men just use them, (for sex mostly) or whether they will actually ever marry a non-albanian woman...oy vey the controversy wacko.gif i haven't posted yet (as of now im just spectating), but it is inevitable...i hope that visajourney understands sad.gif

How...how could you? I thought what we had was special! cray5ol.gif


im so ashamed sad.gif

please dont cry, youre only making this harder!!!!
Jeraly
laughing.gif It's ok - I know many people in the UK forum that visit britishexpats.com - I have wandered over there from time to time but never really got into it... maybe if I get homesick when I move I might smile.gif But I love my UK peeps on VJ as well - just not so busy at BE perhaps wink.gif
Scott and Marta
QUOTE(Jeraly @ Apr 2 2008, 07:37 AM) *
Dig my spangly new siggie update biggrin.gif

biggrin.gif kicking.gif Thatīs so soon biggrin.gif OMG Congratulations biggrin.gif Are you ready for it? biggrin.gif kicking.gif
Jeraly
Marta - Not yet! I am planning on getting everything together this weekend and just going for it - I mean... how bad can it be?! Ok... I am sh*tting myself and I am a bag of nerves but I figure that is normal... besides - I have meeting up with some UK peeps to look forward to biggrin.gif *and* my mum is coming as well smile.gif
*julez*
QUOTE(mox @ Apr 3 2008, 01:45 PM) *
QUOTE(babybluesusie @ Apr 3 2008, 10:25 AM) *
i feel like i just cheated on visajourney.com ohmy.gif

this is the first forum that i have ever taken part in, and i feel very commited to the site...today, however i came across albanian.com and its respective forums...very interesting topics indeed, in fact, i spent the whole morning reading over several of them...there are a lot of non-albanian (american, british, etc) women on there who are with albanian men, and there are pages and pages about whether albanian men just use them, (for sex mostly) or whether they will actually ever marry a non-albanian woman...oy vey the controversy wacko.gif i haven't posted yet (as of now im just spectating), but it is inevitable...i hope that visajourney understands sad.gif

How...how could you? I thought what we had was special! cray5ol.gif


I know! I fell so dirty just responding to her now! Our whole relationship has been cheapened by this romp.
Scott and Marta
Ha STP! Did you star at Firefly or how did you get that pic? Btw...I didnīt see you there so thatīs a dumb question biggrin.gif
mox
QUOTE(babybluesusie @ Apr 3 2008, 11:13 AM) *
im so ashamed sad.gif

please dont cry, youre only making this harder!!!!

Did...did you at lease use anti-virus?!?! cray5ol.gif
Scott and Marta
QUOTE(rae_and_scott @ Apr 2 2008, 03:04 PM) *
I cannot believe you guys have never had smores!! Did you never go camping as children? Course now there are restaurants that serve them, little blue flame and all.

Guys donīt be sad that you never had one...Itīs way too sweet tongue.gif There are better things than that. I think the best thing about sīmores is the talk about it tongue.gif
BabyBlueSusie
QUOTE(mox @ Apr 3 2008, 02:27 PM) *
QUOTE(babybluesusie @ Apr 3 2008, 11:13 AM) *
im so ashamed sad.gif

please dont cry, youre only making this harder!!!!

Did...did you at lease use anti-virus?!?! cray5ol.gif


of course!! i havent completely checked my morals at the door blush.gif ....and i want you to know that it meant nothing!!! sure it was fun, but vj is what i really care about...we have been together for almost a year now, i made a mistake, but i hope that i didnt lose everything that we have together!!! crying.gif i hope we can weather this storm together rose.gif
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