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October 15, 2006

Yeah yeah, I'm a slacker.

I've been meaning to update my LJ for quite a while now.

I mean, it's been months. I've thought of it on more than one occasion, yet there always seems to be something more important to do.

Soo… a re-cap.

The immigration papers made their way to Seattle, and not suprisingly, I'm waiting with baited breath. It's all ahead of schedule, but even still I wish it would all hurry up and get done.

Christina and I are doing very well, relationship-wise. We've had a few arguements, and occasionally hurt feelings, but we've managed to talk through it and work it out nearly every time, which pleases the hell out of me. She started a new job working nights, and unfotunately her schedule until Oct 28th allows for only wednesdays and thursdays off. That's making it a lot more difficult to spend time together, but thankfully my job is awesome, and they don't freak out if I take a day off here and there.

So that means we're down to seeing each other every two weeks, which is far from ideal. I can't imagine this being a viable way to live forever, or even in the long term, but thankfully long before I lose my mind we'll have immigration done.

We're getting closer to getting our debts paid off. Mine should be paid off sometime in december, and hers should be closer to flush by then too. Once that's done, it'll probably take about 2 or 3 months to get together the money required for the final move. We'll have the paperwork done before then from everything I can see.

Items to budget for that I can see are:

Moving into a new place here. This includes first month and damage deposit.
Moving truck expenses.
Forwarding mail and moving over internet, phone and power. (With a server migration, that'll be funi)

Moving truck for her stuff.
Customs fees?

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And of course, I'm sure there are a few things I'm not thinking about. Since it's still at least 5 months away, so I don't have all the details engraved yet.

I wish it would all hurry the hell up though. It's getting harder to let go of her, time after time. I'm also bloody envious of all those couples who take being together for granted, when we have to struggle so hard. I'm still fighting the loneliness though, because it WILL NOT last forever.

By this time next year it'll all be like some kind of dream, and it'll feel like we've never been apart.

I'm holding on for that.

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August 16, 2006

Stage 1 Immigration – DONE!

I received an email 2 days ago, it's such good news.

My application for sponsorship of my wife (and stepson's) immigration has been approved, and the application has been sent to Buffalo, NY, for the final stage.

This last step takes a long time, but it's almost certain everything will go off without a hitch. It's just going to need a bit more patience, and hey, we've hung in this long eh?

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August 3, 2006

Updates

No, it's true, I haven't been updating. Life has been busy enough to keep me away from my journal, and frankly I think that's a good thing.

Work is good, if a little more quiet recently than I would prefer. My relationship is still going strong, and I seem to be developing a rapport with my stepson, I don't know who is more suprised about that!

I'm off and running again. More later.

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May 29, 2006

Yes..

Under 3 hours till I'm officially 32.

Isn't that exciting.

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May 7, 2006

Tag!

*sigh*

It seems the weeks are going by so quickly! No doubt that's part of the reason for the way erratic LJ posting schedule I've found myself in.

That, and the fact I'm still busy enjoying my life, and have no time free to write it down and over-analyze it. Things have been pretty good. There was a rough ralationship spot last week, the first one this year, but it has passed, and it was worth going through to learn more about the one I love.

I have alcohol in my house for the first time in like 5 months. Needless to say, I've been good, and I'm having a little drink 🙂 It's been a really quiet day, with the exception of a few small work disasters, which have been resolved without needing me to drive in to work!

I love my job.

There's probably lots I could write, but I don't really feel like it. The sun's shining bright in outside, and there's a good stiff breeze.

I think I'm going to go enjoy it.

Cheers

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April 12, 2006

It's been a little while

and that's to be expected really. I've been spending my time living my life, instead of writing about it.

It's been fun so far though. Married life isn't all that much different really, since we still have immigration to go through. We finally have everything we need to submit in round 1, and an appointment with the lawyer in 9 days. 😀 I will feel much better once this process is firmly under way!

The estimate we got for completion was 11-15 months, but I've read one immigration account which took only 3 months to complete. Either way, it's going to take a little time to pay off the immigration expenses, and to save enough to do the whole move. It'll happen though, and I'm looking forward to it.

Work is picking back up, and I'm finally getting busy again. I've had stuff to do every day at work, don't get me wrong, but for the last few months I haven't been running from job to job, and I've MISSED that. I'd rather be too busy, it really helps to keep my mood positive, and I've decided I'm going to do my damndest to be positive and unharmful in all my interactions. That is a lot harder to do than it sounds, but I'm giving it my best thusfar.

The next couple of weeks are going to be interesting, Christina and I will be seeing each other a lot more. I get a 4 day weekend this friday, and I'll spend the weekend plus part of friday and monday with her. She's coming over next friday (lawyer stuff), and so we get 3 days together. The following tuesday there's medical exams, so she'll be back over, then we get our regular weekend schedule back.

Anyway, time for me to get moving.

Good morning all.

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March 14, 2006