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I still have The Cold That Would Not Go Away. I've been sick for nearly a month now. It started off as a stuffed up nose, then turned into a full-blown head cold, then into a chesty-cough and then just the little tickly sort of cough which I thought was the end of it, but now I've not some serious sinus congestion going on. I just want it to be over. Ugh. I'm sure it's due (at least in part) to the fact that I spend my days "helping" children to blow their nose and wiping the snot off their faces. Only FIVE kids from my class came to school on Wednesday, so at least I can take solace in the fact that I'm not the only one who's sick. I really hope I'm feeling better before the holidays though. I don't want to spend my whole vacation wishing people a "Berry Chrisbis".
The good news is that the immigration application is in! All we have to do now is wait for approval. Well, hopefully that's all we have to do now. If we forgot to include something or there were any mistakes they'll send it back to us and we'll have to fix it. We hired a consultant to look everything over and were quite thorough when filling everything out and getting together the supplimentary documents so I'll think we'll be okay. I threw the consultant for a loop at the end of our meeting when he said, "If you have any friends who start dating someone from a different country, please recommend that they come to see me." and I replied, "I'll just recommend that they date someone from the same country as them!" I don't think he knew quite what to say to that. Not to say that going through all of this has ever made me wish I hadn't met Jen or wouldn't date her again if I had to do it over, it's been worth it by all means. It just has been a very stressful process and not one that I would really want anyone I cared about have to go through. But we managed to get through it with minimal tears, and hopefully she'll be here by this coming summer.
I'll be flying out Christmas day to see Jen and the rest of her family. I love spending the holidays there. This year will be busier than usual since we'll be driving out of state to go see her brother and his wife and HOPEFULLY their baby who is due just before Christmas. We're going to be aunts! I have bought so much stuff for the baby, they should have waited to tell me until, like, a week before the baby was due. Everything's so tiny and soft, it's hard for me to resist.
Despite being sick I've really been enjoying the holiday season so far. Being with the kids is so great because they still believe in all the magic of Christmas and are SO excited, which is hard not to get caught up into. Plus, I've been getting together with lots of my friends for dinner and tea and parties which has meant that I've been really busy, but it's so nice to see everyone. I've had some really great converstations, oddly, a lot of them about string theory, Buddhism, and positivity. I think that the next book I read might be on a related topic, which is good because I've been trying to do more non-fiction reading.
Well, it's Sunday, which means I have to go do some laundry. Hopefully the machines are free...
The good news is that the immigration application is in! All we have to do now is wait for approval. Well, hopefully that's all we have to do now. If we forgot to include something or there were any mistakes they'll send it back to us and we'll have to fix it. We hired a consultant to look everything over and were quite thorough when filling everything out and getting together the supplimentary documents so I'll think we'll be okay. I threw the consultant for a loop at the end of our meeting when he said, "If you have any friends who start dating someone from a different country, please recommend that they come to see me." and I replied, "I'll just recommend that they date someone from the same country as them!" I don't think he knew quite what to say to that. Not to say that going through all of this has ever made me wish I hadn't met Jen or wouldn't date her again if I had to do it over, it's been worth it by all means. It just has been a very stressful process and not one that I would really want anyone I cared about have to go through. But we managed to get through it with minimal tears, and hopefully she'll be here by this coming summer.
I'll be flying out Christmas day to see Jen and the rest of her family. I love spending the holidays there. This year will be busier than usual since we'll be driving out of state to go see her brother and his wife and HOPEFULLY their baby who is due just before Christmas. We're going to be aunts! I have bought so much stuff for the baby, they should have waited to tell me until, like, a week before the baby was due. Everything's so tiny and soft, it's hard for me to resist.
Despite being sick I've really been enjoying the holiday season so far. Being with the kids is so great because they still believe in all the magic of Christmas and are SO excited, which is hard not to get caught up into. Plus, I've been getting together with lots of my friends for dinner and tea and parties which has meant that I've been really busy, but it's so nice to see everyone. I've had some really great converstations, oddly, a lot of them about string theory, Buddhism, and positivity. I think that the next book I read might be on a related topic, which is good because I've been trying to do more non-fiction reading.
Well, it's Sunday, which means I have to go do some laundry. Hopefully the machines are free...