Is this thing on?
So as I sit here and try and think about where to even start with any update...let me begin with a grumble.
LJ a site that I visit pretty much daily, why do they have to change the freaking links! I'm so used to clicking the first drop down from the main header to look at my friends postings that I keep now clicking the damn friend filter button. Meh you should have changed that when you made all those changes a few months ago!
Anywho...
I am sitting at work. In dire need of a coke, my head is pounding and I am doing everything to stay away that I can. I didn't stay up too late or anything, just had these crazy dreams that make me so exhausted in the morning. Plus Russ woke me up again talking in his sleep. Least this time he didn't rip the covers off of me looking for a puzzle piece in his sleep! lol.
Its been cold here. Had a good snowfall last week and I think its pretty much hear to stay. I'm not complaining, but it is a different cold then Minnesota, its dry here, a little harder to breath, but not too bad.
I love love love this time of year though. We put up our Christmas tree last night. It looks pretty! Once I get the pics online I will post them. This is my first tree decorating with Russ and my first tree in a few years. We had a few bumps in the process like getting the tree all strung with lights and then half of them were out! Oh and the man had no tree topper so I went out to...Walmart of all places to find new lights. I looked for like two hours before I found them hidden in the toy 'overflow' section. Meh such is what I should have expected going to Walmart in the first place. Tonight we were/are going to fix up the outside lights because it is supposed to be warmer, but we'll see since its damn cold out now.
I've been busy since I moved up here. I the layed back one just tags along with all my boyfriends busy plans and such, sometimes its too much, sometimes its good. I can say that I love living with him and I love our life together. There are a few things that could make our lives easier...like me getting a damn car, but then again I would miss riding with him. Meh!
This year I am staying up here with his family for Christmas. His parents have a house out in Fernie BC. Just off a ski hill and this will be the last winter they are going to have it before selling it. So we'll spend this one here and next year with my parents. Speaking of Fernie, we are heading up there next weekend to grind down the mountains! I get to break in my brand new snowboard!!@ Or it will break me..we'll see! So that is another advantage to staying up here. Calgary is a mountain bound city once snowfall happens. SO I'll be out on hte hill bunches!
I also need to plan a trip to get back to my farm in VA. My mamaw (grandma) has been diagnosed with dementia and it seems to be developing quite quickly. That scares the bajesus out of me. I can't imagine her not being top shape and well her actually forgetting me. I've been trying to call her once a week, just a good habit to get into, but also to keep talking to her and just refreshing her. I know she gets lonely up there on the farm by herself, but we'd have to drag her off of there deader then a door knob before she'd leave. She's just a strong, stubborn woman, that I love. Plus I really need her to meet Russ. She remembers him on the phone so that is good. Heck, she asked him the last time if I was being a good girl and in the kitchen cooking him good meals! lol.
Also Russ and I have been tossing around the idea of visiting his grandma for her 90th birthday in New Zealand next year after Christmas time. We'd go for about 5 weeks so we could see some things, visit his family, and also get over to Australia to see his sister. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to do this. If we are going to do this, we need to really figure things out like money and Christmas. So we can see my folks first then head out or something after that. Which leaves a problem. My parents put their house up on the market so who knows where they will be in a year. I'll probably just plan on going to the farm or NC and they can all come to me!
My other concern is that I have to see how easy it is for me to travel back and forth to the US. I'm scared that if I go somewhere I won't get let back in. Chances of that flying I think are minimal, but who knows, someone could be in a pissy mood at the border and just say nope go back to America! I don't even joke about that. The border guard has the final say and they scare the shit out of me.
Once I get a car, I think I will try and hire an immigration lawyer to help me process my paperwork for permanent residency. My friend Anna, just when through the whole process herself, although she's married to a Canadian, the process is pretty much the same. She said it takes ages and if she could have at the time gotten a lawyer, she would have. Ah the joys of international love.
Well I've got an hour left of work now thanks to this so I better get something productive done.
Love you all hope you are well!
LJ a site that I visit pretty much daily, why do they have to change the freaking links! I'm so used to clicking the first drop down from the main header to look at my friends postings that I keep now clicking the damn friend filter button. Meh you should have changed that when you made all those changes a few months ago!
Anywho...
I am sitting at work. In dire need of a coke, my head is pounding and I am doing everything to stay away that I can. I didn't stay up too late or anything, just had these crazy dreams that make me so exhausted in the morning. Plus Russ woke me up again talking in his sleep. Least this time he didn't rip the covers off of me looking for a puzzle piece in his sleep! lol.
Its been cold here. Had a good snowfall last week and I think its pretty much hear to stay. I'm not complaining, but it is a different cold then Minnesota, its dry here, a little harder to breath, but not too bad.
I love love love this time of year though. We put up our Christmas tree last night. It looks pretty! Once I get the pics online I will post them. This is my first tree decorating with Russ and my first tree in a few years. We had a few bumps in the process like getting the tree all strung with lights and then half of them were out! Oh and the man had no tree topper so I went out to...Walmart of all places to find new lights. I looked for like two hours before I found them hidden in the toy 'overflow' section. Meh such is what I should have expected going to Walmart in the first place. Tonight we were/are going to fix up the outside lights because it is supposed to be warmer, but we'll see since its damn cold out now.
I've been busy since I moved up here. I the layed back one just tags along with all my boyfriends busy plans and such, sometimes its too much, sometimes its good. I can say that I love living with him and I love our life together. There are a few things that could make our lives easier...like me getting a damn car, but then again I would miss riding with him. Meh!
This year I am staying up here with his family for Christmas. His parents have a house out in Fernie BC. Just off a ski hill and this will be the last winter they are going to have it before selling it. So we'll spend this one here and next year with my parents. Speaking of Fernie, we are heading up there next weekend to grind down the mountains! I get to break in my brand new snowboard!!@ Or it will break me..we'll see! So that is another advantage to staying up here. Calgary is a mountain bound city once snowfall happens. SO I'll be out on hte hill bunches!
I also need to plan a trip to get back to my farm in VA. My mamaw (grandma) has been diagnosed with dementia and it seems to be developing quite quickly. That scares the bajesus out of me. I can't imagine her not being top shape and well her actually forgetting me. I've been trying to call her once a week, just a good habit to get into, but also to keep talking to her and just refreshing her. I know she gets lonely up there on the farm by herself, but we'd have to drag her off of there deader then a door knob before she'd leave. She's just a strong, stubborn woman, that I love. Plus I really need her to meet Russ. She remembers him on the phone so that is good. Heck, she asked him the last time if I was being a good girl and in the kitchen cooking him good meals! lol.
Also Russ and I have been tossing around the idea of visiting his grandma for her 90th birthday in New Zealand next year after Christmas time. We'd go for about 5 weeks so we could see some things, visit his family, and also get over to Australia to see his sister. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to do this. If we are going to do this, we need to really figure things out like money and Christmas. So we can see my folks first then head out or something after that. Which leaves a problem. My parents put their house up on the market so who knows where they will be in a year. I'll probably just plan on going to the farm or NC and they can all come to me!
My other concern is that I have to see how easy it is for me to travel back and forth to the US. I'm scared that if I go somewhere I won't get let back in. Chances of that flying I think are minimal, but who knows, someone could be in a pissy mood at the border and just say nope go back to America! I don't even joke about that. The border guard has the final say and they scare the shit out of me.
Once I get a car, I think I will try and hire an immigration lawyer to help me process my paperwork for permanent residency. My friend Anna, just when through the whole process herself, although she's married to a Canadian, the process is pretty much the same. She said it takes ages and if she could have at the time gotten a lawyer, she would have. Ah the joys of international love.
Well I've got an hour left of work now thanks to this so I better get something productive done.
Love you all hope you are well!