~July 2007 K-1 Filers~

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Well I think it is stupid... I guess looking at the bright side at least you are together

Stupid it is, but that´s the way it is Luckily I have many many more other things to be happy about

Hey Lisa Stop by more often

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Agreed Suck it up Adriano and stop bothering our Susie Life´s a journey and it´s not like your life ended right there just cuz there isn´t enough Italian/Albanian speaking peoplein your area You might end up back in NY after Susie finishes her school

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Congratulations to the interview Agnes That´s great news

Same goes to Gillian It must be really nice to be finished with USCIS for a few years

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

We don´t seem to have any pet peeves. It´s probly cuz we have already worked them out. I am sure you´ll work it out too. I agree if something bothers you you shouldn´t just leave it or it will never stop. Unless you wanna get used to it. In that case you can leave it

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

My news of the week (aside from bank charges!) is that I should be able to get my SSN tomorrow/Tuesday!!! Is it exactly two weeks from entering the US or is it an inexact science?

It is not an exact science. We waited exactly 2 weeks just to find that Scott wasn't in the system and now we're waiting an additional 4-6 weeks on top of that.

Yeah it´s not an exact science. Our SS office told us after 2 weeks that the waiting period is 30 days...not 14

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

This weekend was lots of fun again. I went to a bridal shower and it was really nice. And I won something We also did some gardening with our cute nephews and looked at baby stuff in the baby store with the Auntie-to-be and with Granny and had yummy bbq

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

It looks like when I post something on this thread, it doesn´t appear on the recent posts page anymore. Why? I don´t know if it appears when someone else posts

[StillThePrettiest 4]

boys and dog went home yesterday so here I am, free as a little birdie

except the one downstairs in a cage...

some good news in this thread while I was gone! congrats you guys with good stuff happening

my news - filed for my SSN last week, which was a bit of an adventure (went COMPLETELY astray on my way there; I didn't ever get lost, exactly, but I just couldn't work out where to go, even though I had a map, and a journey of 20 min turned into an hour ) - but when it was finally my turn the girl was really friendly and helpful, gave me no hassles, and I should have the card within a fortnight

yes, late, I know, but it's done now

also - went to a training day for English volunteer tutors, and was VERY impressed by the organisation, and can't wait to start

it's reasonably close to home, and there's a good possibility that I can tutor even closer to home, so that's good... I can do small groups of ESL (4 - 5 adults), or one-to-one with English-speaking adults who need to improve their written literacy

I think I'd like to do a bit of both

and since I now know the way to Dave's work, I can drive him in the mornings if I want, and then have the car for the day

though I don't know that we'll make a habit of that as it doubles the petrol usage

but at least it's an option

and in more fun stuff - have been having a BLINDER with cooking; everything I try seems to come out wonderfully, which I'm still pinching myself over

did a fish thing on Friday night, with cous cous, which was the bees knees... and we got all adventurous yesterday evening, and made some Indian paratha bread using a recipe we found online, and it was bloody excellent, and we ate it with Indian dips while watching SeaChange, and told each other how very clever we are

as for the other stuff you've all been discussing -

we're really quite sickening, as we have no pet peeves either

give us time; we might develop some, but it's all been pretty plain sailing so far... we're both pretty good at communicating calmly, so any tiny things tend to stay tiny, and don't get all blown up into silliness

and at the moment, with me not working, I'm happy to do all the housework, and Dave is VERY appreciative of same... I quite enjoy most of it, and he doesn't, so it works that way too (and he's still raving about how great it is to have dirty laundry magically reappear, all washed and ironed, in his cupboard, so I feel quite valued )

plus, if I do a bit every day, I often end up with free time, like now, to chat to all you fine people

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

You have been here for almost two months now...time really flies

[rae_and_scott 1]

Congrats Gillian!

STP, you have a boy downstairs in a cage??

We had some good news today too. Got the NOA1s for all 3 AOS thingers. I was worrying (I'm sure for nothing) b/c it seemed people who filed on similar dates were getting things faster and nothing had shown up. So I was pretty happy to see those letters today. We also got the appointment letter for biometrics, and of course, it's scheduled for the time we'll be out of town next week, in Vegas at my friend's wedding. I hope it won't be a giant hassle to get it rescheduled, but I assume that as with most things in life, it probably will be. That's okay, still feels like forward progress. And I definitely like being able to check the status online again! Though it's weird, turns out our 129f had a touch in early February, which isn't around anything we were doing for it. I wonder what that was about.

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

It shouldn´t be a problem to reschedule. I didn´t reschedule and just came there a day before and so they did me a day before

[rae_and_scott 1]

No kidding? That's interesting. I have this feeling, though, that the NYC office is gonna be more busy & strict. Of course, I have no idea. We'll just wait for the next letter telling us when to come in, I suppose, since we can't go in any time next week.

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

I don´t know if any offices are busier than the ones we go to since it takes them reaaally long to process our stuff But if you have time this week, you can try to stop by and see if they do the biometrics or not Basically we did it like that because they sent us the appointment letter really late and it said if we wanted to reschedule we had to send them the letter back or something like that and they would reschedule but the letter wouldn´t make it there by the time the date of the appointment and the paper said if we didn´t appear for the appointment they would consider the applications abandoned. So we just drove there

Julez Did they buy it?

[*julez* 124]

Julez Did they buy it?

We've had 5 couples look at the house so far, with another tonight and one more on Thursday. Since we're not there when the prospective buyers are looking, we have no idea of what they think of the place. Our realtor did speak to one of the realtors who showed it last night and she indicated that her buyers were interested and need to think about it. Big purchase and all that. I do hope it sells quickly!

Edited July 15, 2008 by *julez*

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

I hope so too Then you can do more work on your new house Then you can go for a massage