andreea

yes, weekend pity party for me indeed. monday is our anniversary, my husband is out for a lab retreat this weekend, so i am at my mother's to get an envelope i received from embassy. i was sure is the interview directions envelope. neahhh

so...for all those who have been informed the K3 will fly way faster than CR1 after NOA2, here's my experience. CR1 case complete in january, interview sheduled for 30th of march (why so late, i have no idea), and the envelope i just recieved this week is the K3 envelope. late, no? so the K3 that goes so fast, I should just start it now according to their processing. guess I'll pass the k3 offer for now and forever. this was such a joke for us. K3...pfffft

have fun ladies and gentlemen, Andreea is off to bed. preffer dreaming to waiting for tonight. but u keep the party going!

enjoy life,

Andreea

hello everyone! I won't read back what happened while i was absent, I won't ask u how was yr valentines, because I only want to hear good news. my valentines was blue enough, our anniversary will be monday and on skype, so I couldnt take more sad stories these days. sorry. hope everyone is doing well, hope patience that we all learned during this journey still keeps everyone's chins up, it will be over soon. a lil more time and we'll be chiling in the forums at the bottom of the page, on random topics and the visa will be just a nightmare we left behind. not long from now I will be foruming with your spouses about how to spend time while our better half is at work and how to fight missing home, where to start searching for jobs, etc. those will be great times of boredom, when u wait yr lover for dinner.

anyways, I will be around more, I missed u and good winds for everyone sailing in here. the shore is close.

enjoy life,

Andreea

seems our journey is close to the finish line. congratz to us all. for patience, first of all. I learned many things during this process, and most of all I learned about myself. new ways to hope, new ways to keep chin up, my limits, patience, how important sharing is, how much ppl u dont know can help, how much love and hope are universal, etc. (if only the whole world would belike visa journey, no?)

anyways, what I wanted to say is we finaly got the interview date: 30th of march. a little bit disapointing, more than a year since we filed, long after te case was completed, and monday is our anniversary which will be celebrated over skype. but all in all, it doesn't matter anymore. we made it so far, this is the last bump. in few months I'll be there missing home. and so the show goes on.

good luck to everyone at the interview. maybe we should start a new thread with how our interviews went. the lucky one with the first date should start it and share his/her experence with us.

enjoy life,

Andreea

Can anyone tell me whats the difference between skype or yahoo messenger is? Aren't they all are free anyways?

yahoo is very disapointing after u get used with skype. when my husband's work banned yahoo, we tried just any available internet comunication way. easy to settle with skype. big window real time video, good sound, can work in settings to make yr skype automaticly answer the call and open video for a specific person in yr list of friends.

when one of us isnt in time for the cyber date coffee time, the other one can call on skype and the cam will open automatic. so i can wake up my husband when he oversleeps with real yellings. helps him keep the job. also kept an eye on his new kitten while he was gone thx to these features.

accidentay used yahoo from airport comps or such, and was disapointing after being used with skype. yahoo was good in the supercam mode days, but is long gone. didn't happen to us in more than 2 years now.

enjoy life,

Andreea

skype rules. on all the time. cams on all the time we r home (sometimes feels like big brother house here). real time video helps the cybering too...

enjoy life,

Andreea

Hahahaha. Funny Topic! Im shocked to see it in VJ. I just couldnt resist responding. As a circumcised male myself I think I can speak to this. First off, every guy should get snipped. U ppl who make it a religious deal kill me!! Dude...not everything is abo religion!! Man...its a ####### for crying out loud. It has extra skin that needs to be cut. For one reason, it looks funny with it, its not sanitary and its not as easy to "operate" with all that extra skin.

Btw, i love how all the women comment like they would know! Hahaha STFU unless u got a d**k!

u experienced life as an adult both circumcised and uncircumcised? is not about having a d**k. is about facts. without the foreskin, the skin on the head gets thicker, less sensitive and more abrasive. the role of that skin is to protect the head of the #######, keep the skin thin and sensitive and offer natural lubrication. is not a myth, is a fact. I've experienced uncircumcised and circumcised partners. and first thing i've noticed was how rough the circumcised was versus the uncircumcised.

circumcision not only takes from man's pleasure, but is also felt in sex too. the foreskin provides a gentle gliding mechanism that minimizes friction to the #######. During uncircumcised sex, both the ####### and ####### ride on a cushion of skin, and the ####### experiences only pleasure, without the soreness that can often accompany circumcised sex. A woman is much more likely to experience abrasive rubbing, friction irritation, and vaginal soreness from a circumcised #######. During circumcised intercourse, the constant rubbing of the tight ####### skin against the #######'s delicate interior creates friction burn soreness.

here men r not circumcised by default-in fact i dont know anyone who's circumcised- and yet, i didn't find any dirty disgusting cancerous penises when i checked. and btw, i've never heard guys here mentioning lube.

there r men who r doing foreskin re-grow. it is a long, tireing and not pleasant process and at the end will not be as good as the initial lost one. but men who have done it, they all say it worths, because they experience more pleasure. they say difference is like having sex with 3-4 condoms once, then remove them and have sex without condom.

I would never chose for my sons to be mutilated for nothing more than a fear they might not know to clean properly.

enjoy life,

Andreea

P.S. now i go shave my head, i might not wash or comb my hair because humans r naturaly lazy and therefore is a high lice risk.

What is sad in all this is that these arguments are not even for moral reasons as they claim to be, but for political reasons. everything is about politics and lobby. those who have money and influence have power to write history too, to silence those who opose,etc. and saddly, church has always been a political player.

I am not saying there was no genocide, or that the deniar was right, but I believe in freedom of speech. and all this protest, gone as high as the Pope position being questioned, there r many strings behind the scenes.

and all this recognition mania. if things happen in hisory,and u r interested to know, there r infinite sources to find out the truth. so if I'd be a kid in a turkish school I'd learn there was no armenian genocide, I'd never hear about it. this means it didn't happen? all I'd have to do would be to read other sources. not recognitions or denials make history, history happened and is there for those who want to look into it.

and btw, besides their lobby to silence anyone who'd minimize the jewish holochaust, jews also lobby against armenian genocide recognition. quite odd for someone who cares so much about moral and justice.

enjoy life,

Andreea

CONGRATS!

and good luck with future steps in the process!

enjoy life,

Andreea

ours showed in process, paid, not paid, paid again. give it time until tomorrow. I think if bank transfers it, is just a NVC system error.

CONGRATZ! :dance:

Narina, I am so happy to hear that! I've been following yr case and others from the K3 family. I keep opening VJ only hoping to see approvals.

I know u wanted to go on with the K3, but until u get the approval notice U can't be sure is not approved. u know their online system has problems. In my case, K3 file was never forwarded to embassy and no one could tell us why. kept saying 'being processed', so we only went on with CR1.

our approval email came 3 days after the approval, and the hard copy never.

anyways, what I wanted to say is CONGRATZ!

enjoy life,

Andreea

In public - no....otherwise, why not?

my husband makes fun of me because I can't kiss in public. he's always trying to distract me and steal a kiss, but I am stubborn. and tongue, ofc, ofc. but I am only a receiver, I am not sure I can inspect in other mouths. I am good at welcoming though.

enjoy life,

Andreea

OK, clarification. Never in history Vlad the Impaler -whom is te inspiration for count Dracula-lived in Bran castle. Dracula is a novel character invented by Bram Stoker. Dracula comes from the romanian Drăculea, which means the son of Dracu, who was in fact his father and got this nickname because he was decorated by hungarian king with the Dragon decoration.

the castle was built during the hungarian domination, was used by Sigismund of Luxemburg, was then in the posesion of Valahia and donated to Queen Maria Habsburg for her contribution in the romanian principates union. comunists took it afterwardsand let it rot, and in present days is the property of romanian royal family,who r not sure if to make it a museum or sell it.

there is no romanian to refer at the castle as Dracula castle, unless they give a tour to a foreigner who's here to see that. Transilvania is full of Dracula castles, houses, dungeons, etc, and that only because it seemsit sounds good for the foreign tourists. we don't even celebrate halloween here, but is full of americans searching for vampires in these "hot spots". Bran castle is asociated with Dracula since the movie "Interview with a vampire " was filmed there.

but of course, for those who like bloody stories, they can anytime come and pretend they walk where Dracula was killing virgins.

enjoy life,

Andreea

I can reveal him only after ceremony. tough luck to be groom in romania..

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3163/290922...958dc18.jpg?v=0

I didn't get any weird questions from my relatives there because they didn't ask much. they just visited for the wedding and found out here how things r. only my mother in-law asked me how i will celebrate thx giving. next will probably be to ask what i am doing for 4th of july...

as some pointed here, is an educational system fault. it might be, because is easier to run uneducated ppl and tell them what is right and wrong, what should be done next, and they won't question it. not to educate ppl in history and geography is somehow political. what would they need it for anyways? better use that time to learn how to produce somth, be useful for the nation, and let the high positioned ppl take decisions, while ignorants agree.

but what is bothering is while average person knows lil about the world, they get very excited when u ask them who should we bomb next. so I'd say or u wish to know more than u r thought, and then u can learn all alone, or settle with the idea u shouldn't have an opinion, because is not documented. a person isnt only the result of educational system, is also about personal wish for knowledge.

now with appologies in advance for the next links, and without trying to say everyone is like this, here r few examples of ppl who have vote rights and in a way or another bring their contribution to all world history, because is all conected.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ghdwINqirU

why wouldn't she sign the divorce papers? I mean is obvious is a lie what he claims, but is no surprise, considering what he's doing. he's just that kind of person. waiting for an year to find out u r being dismissed is horrible, but at least she didn't start a life with this man. I think no one can even hope for happyness with such a person. and is not someone u'd still want to be married with. if was me, I'd sign him the papers and get rid of him as fast as posible. so what if that's making things easier for him? he'll have to live with himself for the rest of his life, and my guess is that isn't nor the first nor the last time he gets in a situation like this. and the other girl, if she knew he was married and still get in the way, her 'reward' will come from him sooner or later, no worries. makes no sense to try keep him or make his life harder. will have the same end, but will consume her more. sooner she gets over with it, sooner she can go on with her life. trying to punish him will affect her negative too. and no worries, life has ways to payback. u dont have to waste yr time and energy to do it yrself.

enjoy life,

Andreea

why ** Iran? Id say ** the manipulators in Iran.

enjoy life,

Andreea

very happy news, Sonia. congratz! and yes, that's the way. talk to someone there. we have case complete at NVC, and still didn't get the NOA2 hard copy. so u can't completely count on it. and the email notification/status updated on USCIS site came 3 days after the actual approval. ofc in those 3 days i was complaining in here, having no idea we were already approved.

enjoy life,

Andreea

I know of someone who had same problem. they solved it this way: he got hired part time with small income at some friends family business. he didnt work or really get paid, but paid taxes on the income showed in papers. so legaly he was employed, have income, tax payer, etc. he went and lived with his wife during the process; his job was supposed to be comp work, so again he was legal, because could have be done from anywhere. this way and with a co-sponsor to round the income, he managed to live with his wife and not fear a denial. of course he had to invest the money for taxes, but he said it worths to be safe. was like he'd pay to live with his wfe. their process went well just fine at the end.

enjoy life,

Andreea

u can go almost anywhere. depends very much of yr standards and yr skills in research. if u go for most advertised accomodation and restaurants in an area, might be tough. but if u r good at doing yr homeworks before going some place, u can find very good deals anywhere. and that's also part of experiencing the place too. if u hang more where tourists do, is going to be expensive and u'll only see the made up for tourists part of the place. usualy before we travel we do our homeworks well, and try not follow touristic agencies advices. we used virtualtourist site,and that was always helpful too. we rent somth before (usualy an apartment as u said, we r not too much into hotels and organized stuff), but always start with the idea that things might not be as they seem, but if it turns to an adventure that can be fun too. now as i said, depends very much of yr standards and what u want to do there.

enjoy life,

Andreea

Lisa, i think this AP at NVC is a trend lately. and it happened right after we started to seemore approvals from USCIS. probably when USCIS wasnt doing their job, NVC was was more relaxed andcould process the cases faster. now they have a igger load and got slower. I mean i dont know whats going on, but this is what Ive noticed. in my case, they never could say anything about my K3 package. I was hoping to get a sooner interview for K3 and switch it to CR1. away went my hopes, as the CR1 case is complete, and about K3 package no one knows anything. didnt hit embassy here, and NVC can't say anything about it. just one time someone there said processing. but that was when we sent package IV for CR1, so didn't matter anymore. I even forgot about the K3. is meaningless history. i know yr opinion about pursuing ony with K3, but I was thinking what would hurt to try go on with both? if K3 starts to move at some point, u can just not send last package for CR1 or somth. but is good to have 2 choices, if yr process been slower for filing for both anyways.

Narina, I know it can be frustrating to wait, i have been waiting for almost 9 months. but in the end, doesnt matter only to be approved faster, but to be approved at the right time too. i was so happy in NOA2 day, but now i see those who got approved at beginning of next year have case complete and wait for february interview sheduling just like me. so didnt make much difference in the big picture. we had everything ready, but was before winter holidays, and things started to move just after new year. in fact i think that if we have had NOA2 after new year too, our K3 file might not be lost in space now, and could have got a better interview date than the one we'll get this way. like this we'll spend first anniversary apart, because he cn't come in february and the nagain in march when we hope for an interview. i think is the same for desiman and Lisa. was approved, but at a bad time. they were still in holidays spirit, and their confusion made things slower in the end ,than a later NOA2 would have done.

I am still around sometimes, but for us is nothing to do anymore, just to wait as our case is complete but missed the january sheduling. so I just log in looking for "approved" thread started by my friends here. chins up, i know when u r close to finish line is the most difficult part, but the u r really closer to the end with every day passing by. u made it so many months, 1-2 more months will go by before u notice. just dont focus on the wait, that makes time slower. don't check USCIS processing times every day. don't check the dates ofthose approved every time u see an approval. u know it doesnt help yr case in way, just makes u frustrate sometimes. focus on somth else,on things u have power over, and this will get solved by itself, without u losing time,energy and joy over it. don't talk to yr husband about processing times, u cant change them, talk about good things, random things, doesnt matter. but ull discover that will charge yr batteries rather than make u feel helpless if u talk of visa process.

enjoy life,

Andreea

my husband called NVC. our case is complete since last week. but we didn't make the interviews sheduling this month. so guess is nothing left to do for us but wait and ask again in february. good luck to those who r still in the process with NVC.

enjoy life,

Andreea

The NOA2 has an expirationdate and the visa has an expiration date. I think if u sum those 2, and also make the process relly slow, u can make it go for an year. like take yr time when sending documents, leave long breaks between packages, long enough for u but not too long for them to expire. then get the visa and not go right away. I think it has few months time limit. in that case u can still stay home for a year, and also not drop the whole process and start all over again.

enjoy life,

Andreea

ofc a cat thread went on so many pages. cats even get odes.

http://ehiggins.tripod.com/ode2cat.htm

enjoy life,

Andreea