rhymeswithcandi

I heard about the fire. How tragic! I used to live at between Queen and King, west of Dufferin, so I know the area well. Very sad.

I lived at Queen and Dufferin too! "Parkdale" I used to go shopping in that area a lot and go for patio drinks when the weather was nice. It's super sad how much it actually took out.

Congrats on the job! I just read that. Great news..

Here's coffee! Are those little maple leafs on your meez liz? I can't tell yet...eyes are still not fully opened.

Good morning! They look like maple leaves to me too.

Anyone here from TO? There was a really bad fire a week ago at Queen and Bathurst Wiped out nearly the whole block.

So So sad.

Aint no freeways in Saskatchewan!! lol

We don't call them freeways in Toronto either. They're always called by their name - "401" "Don Valley Parkway" or "QEW"

I'M BACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Anyone miss me? Maybe not me...but my coffee?

We had a fabulous time away, but always nice to get home and sleep in our own beddie, you know?

Seems like ages since I've been here, and there is lots of catching up to do.

Enjoy your Monday everyone. Monday's are my favourite day! It's like a whole new week is ahead of you, and the possibilities abound!

YAAAY! We DID miss you! Happy Monday.

me finally here, had to fly to virginia today.

nice meez liz

I'm in Fairfax - it's supposed to be getting colder. Enjoy your stay!

I don't want to bring you down, but please make sure the post office is aware of you living there.

Also, put a sticker or something with your name on the mailbox if you haven't done so just in case.

My husband's AP Travel Document was also approved. I know this because I check frequently online to check the status on his applications.

Last June in 2007, it was approved and it said that it was sent out, but we never received the approval notice or the travel document. I called and asked about it, but they said it was sent. They said because it wasn't returned to them, someone must've received it. Because of this, they wouldn't be able to send another one!

They actually said to reapply.

It was ridiculous because we definitely didn't receive it, and they said they sent it. We were contemplating on what to do but wasn't sure if we should apply again because we didn't know what was wrong with the not receiving mail problem. How would we know if we would receive it the 2nd time around if we reapplied.

We decided to give it another try, but luckily, my husband's permanent resident green card came yesterday and now we don't have to think about the AP Travel Document or renewing his EAD.

I don't want to bring your hopes down because it's great news that you'll be able to go away on a trip for Easter. But just in case, God forbid, something horrible like this happens to you, make sure your post office knows you live there, and your name's on your mailbox. And if at the end of the day all of this is done and somehow you didn't receive it, give your local district congressman a ring. That's a piece of advice I received from a fellow VisaJourneyer. We were about to send her the information regarding our case when POP out of nowhere, we finally received the green card.

Congratulations on the approval and good luck on the rest of your journey!

Thank you for that advice! Very good point - we live in an apartment and the mailboxes have names on them where the mail carrier puts the mail... Someone on the helpline told me to make sure my name was actually on the mailbox so I had our mailman take the previous tenants' names off and put ours. Hopefully that'll be good. It hasn't come yet but I'm still hopeful it'll be here soon

On Feb 20th?!@##@

Are you saying you don't check your status online every hour??????

FOR SHAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

congrats btw

Thanks! Well I probably check every 2 hours.

Congratulations candi! Safe and happy travels at Easter!

Thank you!!

I didn't really discover cider until I moved to Nor VA. There is def no shortage of ciders here at all...

Another positive I forgot to add to my list:

Sweet Tea in the south! (it SO beats any "iced tea" you get in Canada)

Details please! What is special about the tea, is it made a different way or with different tea/sweetner.

You know, I actually have no idea how they make it (shame) exactly but I know it's amazing! My parents came to visit and my mom couldn't stop going on about how much she loves it. I think it's real brewed tea with sugar in it (opposed to crystals). It tastes just like tea and it's yummy!

Every restaurant has it - in fact if you ask for "iced tea" they'll look at you strangely and might bring a can of Brisk. I'm told it's a Virginia thing but I'm sure they have it in Maryland, West Virginia and South Carolina too.

I don't know if I should really bother or not, but here goes.

The fact that you break people down in to stereotypes/races and then slur them is the problem.

"These are the people who walk back and forth on the street lane while you're waiting at a red light. Walking around your car. I've never seen a Mexican do this".

Well bully for you - but you know what, no one cares what your preconceived ideas are about Mexicans or any other culture.

"I suppose in retrospect, I should have worded my first post differently. When I lived in Canada, I dealt with multicultural post office staff who were friendly. As soon as I got here, I had crummy service from USPS that was all minorites".

I would hope that in retrospect you would have not posted it at all. As flames mentioned, there is no room in this forum for racist comments - won't listen to it, won't put up with it.

I think Texadian is just negative (period) He/she has just somehow come onto a thread that started out to be a positive list of things in America and turned it into a really negative one.

Hmm, seems people in this thread have more favourite things than I do.

I don't see what the big deal with Target is.

Canada Post was 10x better than USPS.

American TV has more lawyers, pharmaceutical drugs, and Head-On commercials.

I'VE ONLY SEEN 1 HOCKEY GAME ON TV IN 6 MONTHS. #######?

No cider anywhere. And the beer is so so.

In the last week, I had two people come and ask me for money. One guy who pulled up to the pump in his car asking for gas money. And another guy in the grocery store asking for food money. Both strike me as odd.

Favourite things here so far?

Cheap shipping and no tax on internet purchases.

No scraping windows or running the defrost in the winter.

The enjoyment of walking outside during "winter."

Can go to a concert without spending the night (ferry + hotel). Much cheaper and faster. Just drive to the show and drive home.

Cheaper investment fees/taxes.

Lastly, paying US prices for books and magazines.

Umm, you may need to move! We watch hockey on TV several times a week AND there is cider in the stores and bars in the DC area. Plus, new coach and Ovechkin means Caps hockey is even worth watching most of the time!

Course, the downside is that you may have to scrape your windshield or run the defrost here. And still just so-so beer.

I do think though that you are the only person I have ever heard say that they like Canadian Post over USPS. :

I didn't really discover cider until I moved to Nor VA. There is def no shortage of ciders here at all...

Another positive I forgot to add to my list:

Sweet Tea in the south! (it SO beats any "iced tea" you get in Canada)

Just a little survey for a Friday morning...

I guess I am a memeber of the "Cougar Club" too. I'm 34 and my husband is 23.

Thanks for posting this thread it's a real pick me up! Just got off the phone with my brother-in-law and once again he's asking "What do you guys even have in common?" Anybody else get this?

Umm no, I wouldn't let anyone speak to me that way - how rude!!

It's funny... there is a weird age difference between my husband and I but no one close to us has ever made an issue about it... they're all just happy that each of us have found such a great match. It's people who just meet us who get weird about it "you're a dirty old lady" I'm 31 - hardly the age to be called that.

After 10 years of putting it off, I passed my driving test today!!!!

I promised myself when I left my ex that I would go back to school and get my high school diploma. I did that last may. I promised myself I would get a great job, I love my job!!! Finally, I promised myself I'd get my license and today I have it.

It may sound simple but these things have been nagging at me for a long time. I'm proud of myself and I feel on top of the world.

Now all I need is an approval and things would be amazing.

Just wanted to share

Have a great weekend all!!!

That's awesome! I know how great that feels. I actually had a similar list after breaking up with my ex a few years back and it felt so good to knock all of them off the list.

Congratulations

The interesting thing about Target is that the last time my wife was down here, she said that Target looked almost exactly like Zeller's. Apparently, just about everything in the two stores -- from the layout to the products sold to the color scheme -- resembled each other. Just to see what she was talking about, the last time I was up in Canada, we stopped in a Zeller's and true enough, they do look an awful lot alike.

Oh... and yeah, my wife has also spent an inordinate amount of time looking around Target, which I thought was a little bewildering. I never gave the store much consideration. Although I much prefer it to places like Wal-Mart or Sam's Club. Costco isn't that bad, but the other two? Terrible, just terrible.

My husband and I will not step foot inside a Walmart. Never.

I haven't been to Zellers in YEARS - actually, probably the last time I remember being in Zellers was when I was about 11 years old and a friend and I got caught trying to steal lip gloss - it was totally her! lol I guess it was a little like Target.

I am glad you did not have to use any mouchoirs with the coffee today crikey!

My Husband's visa came in the mail today, it's very swish I must say.

My Brother in Law and Nephew were at the Nebraska USCIS office this morning for their visa interview and they are now official green card holders (or will be when the cards arrive in about two weeks). My Nephew can claim citizenship now that he has that.

I won't go in to huge detail about my BIL's visa interview, however many many many years ago he was caught with marijuana. What I do want to say is that because the very old court documents did not state what he was caught with - just that he was caught - he had to file a waiver. The USCIS person was so nice, she already had it all ready to go, they just had to write a note saying what he had been in possession of and pop out and get a money order - how efficient/nice is that!

All great news!

Sharon and I are the same age one day every year, July 28th.

That's so cool!

Another point: Who's to say there aren't others still on the island? Claire, etc?

Jack testified that there were only 8 survivors which we know is untrue...

It's creepy tho, with Aaron.

So.....does this mean that Claire never made it off the island since Kate has Aaron?

I was thinking the same thing. So thats the 5th member then of the Oceanic 6?

He wasn't born then!

What?

Aaron is not the 5th member because he was born on the island!

Oh ok I see... I was just thinking that if Aaron was one of the people rescued off the island he would be classed as a survivor and hence one of the Oceanic 6. But I guess it would make sense that he wasn't included in the 6.

I'm with you on the creepy. I don't remember the last time a tv show actually made me shout like that.

Well, that answers all my "who's got the 16+ years age differences" questions.

I am six years older than my husband but I am not telling you our ages.

I love that my husband is younger.

Another point: Who's to say there aren't others still on the island? Claire, etc?

Jack testified that there were only 8 survivors which we know is untrue...

It's creepy tho, with Aaron.

So.....does this mean that Claire never made it off the island since Kate has Aaron?

I was thinking the same thing. So thats the 5th member then of the Oceanic 6?

He wasn't born then!

What?

What's with the blacked out sentence? What have the mods kept from me? I really hate moderation!

We just just spoiler tags so you'd have to highlight to read it... that way people who haven't seen the last episode won't have it ruined for them.

So.....does this mean that Claire never made it off the island since Kate has Aaron?

I was thinking the same thing. So thats the 5th member then of the Oceanic 6?

I'm completely hooked on this show right now.

Gosh I just watched the latest episode of Lost online (we don't have cable tv) and I am so friggen obsessed with that show (pardon my French)

Wifey is just a bit less then 4 years older then I am. Doubt we would have dated in highschool, but if she had lived in Canada, I would have been in the 9th grade dating a 13th Grader so that would have been kind of cool. In the US she was just starting college when I was in the 9th grade...

A 9th grader with a college girlfriend!? You would have been the MAN!

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TARGET! I just love that store....

oh yea...and my other half of course...he he he

No wonder my life is so empty.... I've never been to Target. Does that make me a bad person???? :unsure: :unsure:

No it doesn't make you a bad person at all... but try it. You'll love it. I can spend hours in there. Love.

Oh and I just checked our expresspost envelope for the visa, it arrived at the post office in MTL yesterday, very good!

Great news!

I totally forgot about the horrible hours of the LCBO. When we went with some friends to Toronto for New Years this year, we had to go flying off the 401 and tear around London once we realized the sun was going down and we had minutes to get the beverages for the hotel room haha.

Not to mention the HUGE lines whenever there is a holiday.

My parents live in London... love it there!

I am 19 years, 11 months older than my husband. Doesn't sound as dramatic as 20 years. hee hee

WELL done Delicia!

Yea I'm 7 years 6 months older than my husband - so I just say "7 years"

TARGET! I just love that store....

oh yea...and my other half of course...he he he

My wife always complains that the dollar stores are MUCH better in Canada, but she ends up staying at Target for hours

I seriously HEART Target! A LOT.

I'm not living in the U.S. yet, so I have nothing to add, but I think it's a nice idea! Just thinking though, one thing I am looking forward to is having more places to shop from online.

I've pretty much become a hermit since online shopping really got into the mainstream. I hate shopping so I love nothing better than ordering online. Only bad part is I just have to hope that the clothes fit haha.

Oh yes, I forgot about that one - shopping online at places that don't ship to Canada is definitely great.