~July 2007 K-1 Filers~

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

That´s great Now it´s time for you to finally get married

[Jeraly 4]

Hahah - yeah not long now til the "big" day Of course, it will just be me, Jeremy, a couple of witnesses and the minister who couldn't make it in February so a low-key affair - after all, this is our "fake" wedding

Then I get to go change my name on the SSC, bank accounts etc

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

I know Are you gonna have pics from the "fake" one too?

I kinda found out that when I sit, I can see into my belly button now since it´s position changed some That´s funny

[Jeraly 4]

Hahaha I can kinda see into mine as well but only cause I have settled... "comfortably" into married life I think that when we get back from Arizona we need to go on a bit of a detox/health kick!!

We'll prolly take a few piccies but nothing special - just with our own cameras I am sure my mum will want to see even though it is all a load of BS to fulfill the visa conditions

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Are you trying to say you won´t be celebrating two wedding anniversaries in the future?

Well hopefully there won´t be anymore troubles with your gas after you come back so then you can cook healthy meals and go for a swim whenever you feel like it It wouldn´t be as easy to detox if you still had to eat out a lot

[Jeraly 4]

Yeah I know - and there are sooo many delicious-looking restaurants about as well!!! I am sure there are healthy options but it's just not the same going out for a meal and having to pick a salad when there are so many other lovely things to choose from

The idea is that if (when) Jeremy forgets our anniversary in February, he can make it up by remembering the one in August And I am sure he will get extra brownie points for getting me pressies on both

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

That´s pretty tricky

Hey were we left here all alone? Everyone else travelling the world or at least USA Muffin shouldn´t be travelling I think?

[Jeraly 4]

I dunno - I think leaving us on our own together could be dangerous

Trying to find cheap rooms in Sedona for 8th August... Sent an e-mail to one place so keeping fingers crossed that they get back to me and tell me it is available as they have an internet discount of 10% available as well as 10% AAA discount - would knock $16 or so off of the room price

[tucson_chick 0]

I dunno - I think leaving us on our own together could be dangerous

Trying to find cheap rooms in Sedona for 8th August... Sent an e-mail to one place so keeping fingers crossed that they get back to me and tell me it is available as they have an internet discount of 10% available as well as 10% AAA discount - would knock $16 or so off of the room price

the 9th it is! i am open for anything, you guys let us know and we'll be there! SOOOO excited!

we'll be flying out to oklahoma to be at erics grandparents 80th birthday next weekend. man..... i really don't like his family a whole lot.....

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Paaarty, party Poor Agnes But maybe you will have a nice adventure

[StillThePrettiest 4]

wow, I'm away for a day or two and I miss so much!!

happy holidays, Julez... SO envious; I think you SHOULD kiss the ground for me

but you can choose a clean patch

great news on Adriano's job, Susie! that will make a whole lot of things better, I'm sure

and Marta, having a little boy!! oh, I'm so excited for you

will you guys speak to him in Czech and English? I always think it's such an advantage for a kid if they grow up bilingual

hello and hugs to everyone else too, who I didn't mention by name... missed you guys

my news -

we went to Austin for the weekend, and had a fab time; we ended up calling it our fake honeymoon, as we didn't have one at the time; it really was loads of fun

even though we only went for the stupidest of reasons - Dave needed a print-out of his driving record from the Austin DMV, to contest a speeding fine, and had left it too late for it to be sent through the mail

other, less fun, news -

Chase bank refuses to add me to Dave's account

first it was because they wouldn't believe I was a permanent resident, as I have no green card (yes, that old chestnut), and then once I'd convinced her otherwise it was because I didn't have proper official papers showing my residential address

mind you, I had the state-issued (and officially stamped) wedding certificate (which didn't count), and my social security card (which didn't count); they wanted a utility bill (which I'm not on as I don't have any money or bank account with which to organise payment) or a letter from a school or college where I was enrolled as a student... I brightened up at that, and said that I'll be starting my volunteer tutoring soon, so could the school write me a letter? she went off and asked, but came back saying that if I had been going there as a student, it would be fine, but as I'll be a tutor, they can't accept it

I admit my tolerance for this sort of thing is low, as it's pretty recently that I was persona non grata in the UK as well, with no credit rating, and no way to set up things like bank accounts and so on, but sitting there on Monday I was ready to lose it... I stayed very polite, but stalked out of the place and had to be very bright and chatty with Dave to stop myself crying; this sort of thing is so farking galling, to be treated like an idiot child wherever you go...

anyway

no bank account, but I AM going to start my tutoring on the 5th of August; I've observed a lesson, and attended my training day, and am raring to go

so some things work out... things I do for myself, evidently

[janaus 0]

Hi,

Just checking in to see what everyone is upto and how u guys are doing. My husband's greencard finally got approved a few weeks ago but then we had to move to the middle of nowhere . Hopefully will be back home soon!

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

and Marta, having a little boy!! oh, I'm so excited for you

will you guys speak to him in Czech and English? I always think it's such an advantage for a kid if they grow up bilingual

Hehe Poor little boy will catch bad English from me and bad Czech from Scott

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

STP that´s pretty weird what your wrote about the bank account. They are racist and discriminational I think you should forget all about some Chase bank since that´s a pretty weird name anyway and go set up your stuff with Dave at a different bank. I haven´t had such problems anywhere. All they wanted was two forms of an ID

[StillThePrettiest 4]

oh, Dave likes Chase... he's got his salary going through them, and has loads of points on his credit card... plus he likes that there are ATMs everywhere

we'll work something out... like put my name on the gas bill for a month or something

so stupid... when I was in London this is how new-comers often got round the strict bank rules; get a friend to put the gas bill in their name for a month, and then take the bill off to open the account, and the friends would then change it back... so what does it protect, if it's that easy to mess with? absolutely nothing... you'd think a state-issued marriage certificate would be far better, and harder to forge, but no

and you speak the Czech, and Scott speaks the English, silly one

bilingual kids usually take a month or two longer to start speaking, but when they do, they usually have both languages perfectly separate

so fabulous... I know twins who are bilingual in English and German, so I can understand them both ways, but they looked at me all goggle-eyed when I said something to them in German once; they thought everyone else only spoke one language, and they knew I spoke English