Some days it's just a day....
You want to add up the pluses and minuses and figure out if you're winning or losing, but as a sorta wise man once said, "You never count your money while you're sitting at the table."
So, there's stuff, some of it good, like the fact the tax department has sorted out my child tax benefits they were reassessing. Some of it not so good, like the fact they didn't actually send me the cheque (or deposit it in my account) yet, despite that today is the due date of the payment. Hopefully the cheque will be in tomorrow's mail. Some of it bad, like the fact the house we had our eye, and our hopes on, sold this week. Oh I'm not taking it as bad as the last time I thought it was sold - maybe because I've already been through this once, that and I pretty much figured it would be gone long before the end of December. Some of it frustrating, like the doctor being on holidays, so I still won't find out until Monday if I can start taking the medication he prescribed weeks ago. Some of it productive, like sorting out a glitch with my Dell billing, and making a big chunk of headway in the tax audit paperwork.
But that's all just stuff.
I won the biggest hand of all when I won the hand of the sweetest kindest sexiest man born. He loves me, I love him. I have my children with me. We all have our health. Being apart has been terribly difficult, but we know it is a temporary condition that will end. I don't know if we're still gonna want to go to Ottawa, I don't know if we'll stay in Newfoundland, I don't know if we'll consider somewhere different all together. We'll have time to consider our options, time to wait for the right opportunity, not have to make the long drive in the middle of winter, time to figure out together just what we want our life together to be - "the world will be our oyster". For all the waiting, for all the anxiety, for all the fears, and tears, I am a very lucky woman.
Edit: Word from the consulate is perhaps another two weeks to the final step/stage of the immigration process - very good news indeed. And with a little luck, the house in Brisbane will be on the market in another week and a half. Honestly, I'll be glad to see something DONE.
So, there's stuff, some of it good, like the fact the tax department has sorted out my child tax benefits they were reassessing. Some of it not so good, like the fact they didn't actually send me the cheque (or deposit it in my account) yet, despite that today is the due date of the payment. Hopefully the cheque will be in tomorrow's mail. Some of it bad, like the fact the house we had our eye, and our hopes on, sold this week. Oh I'm not taking it as bad as the last time I thought it was sold - maybe because I've already been through this once, that and I pretty much figured it would be gone long before the end of December. Some of it frustrating, like the doctor being on holidays, so I still won't find out until Monday if I can start taking the medication he prescribed weeks ago. Some of it productive, like sorting out a glitch with my Dell billing, and making a big chunk of headway in the tax audit paperwork.
But that's all just stuff.
I won the biggest hand of all when I won the hand of the sweetest kindest sexiest man born. He loves me, I love him. I have my children with me. We all have our health. Being apart has been terribly difficult, but we know it is a temporary condition that will end. I don't know if we're still gonna want to go to Ottawa, I don't know if we'll stay in Newfoundland, I don't know if we'll consider somewhere different all together. We'll have time to consider our options, time to wait for the right opportunity, not have to make the long drive in the middle of winter, time to figure out together just what we want our life together to be - "the world will be our oyster". For all the waiting, for all the anxiety, for all the fears, and tears, I am a very lucky woman.
Edit: Word from the consulate is perhaps another two weeks to the final step/stage of the immigration process - very good news indeed. And with a little luck, the house in Brisbane will be on the market in another week and a half. Honestly, I'll be glad to see something DONE.