Alisaura
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Puppytime!
Well girls, I am off to Winnipeg for the weekend! I am going to see my other favourite band!: hyper:
Bon Jovi better look out~: wink:
Talk to ya again Sunday night! Have a great weekend!: hug:
Hello from Montreal. Yesterday was pretty eventful. I missed me connecting flight from toronto to montral because my thunder bay one was late getting in. Had to take the next flight out so Liz was waiting for me for almost another two hours. Then val got lost downtown in her car and me and liz tried to find her for an hour. We finally did in a parking lot next to the Bell Center.
I'm tired... and suddenly my To Do list got massive. I need to do my tax return, check my payslips online from the last 6 months cos I haven't looked at them and have been happily ignoring baffling fluctuations in my pay (although maybe I should do that before the tax return...), get my car its 100,000km service, try to get the UK consulate on the phone to make sure I have all the rights bits of paper for my citizenship application, then send the thing off (with $900, ow), figure out where I'm going to live because our share house is breaking up in about a month (one housemate very pregnant and going to move in with fiance, other two housemates engaged to one another and will be moving in with relatives so they can save money for wedding, no hard feelings), then move there, and somewhere along the line, catch up with a pile of old emails, move offices at work, and worry about my father's worsening dementia and my brother's sudden uncommunicativeness. And stay relatively sane, but who wants to do that.
Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled party.
Soooooo we're meeting Farrah in 20 minutes!!!
Wow, that's a lot on your plate!
I didn't know about your dad. If you'd like to vent or exchange parental dementia notes or whatever, I'm just a PM away.
I'm the same way...[...] I'm so distracted these days, that I seem to forget to reply to half the stuff on here that I intend to.
I know!! When I think about things in the 90s, it seems like they only happened two weeks ago. A sign of age, I guess.
Soooooo we're meeting Farrah in 20 minutes!!!
This is my last day of work before vacation.
Ta... I hadn't said anything before, kind of hard to know how to bring it up. And up until a few weeks ago, it hadn't really hit me properly. I might drop you a line tomorrow.
Awesome! When are you leaving for your parents' place?
And it's $900 for your citizenship application?! Yowch. I don't remember what it cost when my brother and I became American citizens, but we did have to have lawyers and stuff, because although it should have been a very simple process (Mom is from the US, she moved to Canada when she met my Dad), it ended up getting kinda complicated because of missing paperwork and other ridiculousness on the part of the US government. My parents paid for it all since we were just kids at the time, so for all I know it could have easily been that much or more.
I'm not living with my parents, so it's mostly my mother I feel for... she's younger than dad and has to deal with him every day. But anyway... details are for later.I'm not sure if this will help or not, but we were just remarking the other day how my mom seems to have fewer bad days lately. The decline is still very apparent, even on her best days, but she seems to be holding her own with the meds she's currently on. In my experience, it feels hopeless sometimes, but you get to the point where you realize things could be much worse.
So that long convoluted answer was all to say, maybe I'll be heading out tomorrow, but if I can't find a place to stay, then I'm leaving at the butt crack of dawn on Sunday morning.
I have to be on the ferry at a specific time on Sunday morning. I'm hoping to find a place to crash downtown tomorrow night, as I'm going to a dinner out that way tomorrow. My parents live further west than downtown, so it would be nice if I didn't have to drive all the way east to my home tomorrow night (I live in a suburb 40 mins away from the downtown area) after my evening is over, only to have to come out that exact way again the next morning. So far I'm hitting a dead end, but I have two more possibilities that I'm going to call today. Hopefully something will work out!
So that long convoluted answer was all to say, maybe I'll be heading out tomorrow, but if I can't find a place to stay, then I'm leaving at the butt crack of dawn on Sunday morning.
That was the fee when I was first researching this a couple of years ago... I wouldn't put it past them to have put it up by now! And I'll have to apply for a UK passport if I do get citizenship, another $200 or so. I suppose they have to find some way of discouraging people and making a buck at the same time.
I don't know what the fees are for the various other ways you can get citizenship/a visa/residency; in my case it's through my mother, who was born in the UK.
I hope you can find some crash space! Getting up at arse crack of dawn is no fun at all, even for holidays.
You'll have an awesome time though!
Hope something works out so that you don't have to do all the extra driving!
Omfg she's so sweet and silly!
So I got the first step towards applying for the Fulbright done today - I heard from the program I want to study with at King's College in London and they like me and said they'll help me with admissions and write a letter to the Fulbright people!!!!!! It's just a baby step - I still have to jump through about 100 other hoops and beat out 800 other applicants for the scholarship but still...
PUPPEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thora, enjoy vacation!
I wonder how Kristen and Drea are doing in Montreal. Is that where you're going, Thora?
So I got the first step towards applying for the Fulbright done today - I heard from the program I want to study with at King's College in London and they like me and said they'll help me with admissions and write a letter to the Fulbright people!!!!!! It's just a baby step - I still have to jump through about 100 other hoops and beat out 800 other applicants for the scholarship but still...
OMG Zooey in London
I hope everything works out
Thanks! I'm excited for time off. No, not heading to Montreal until next summer. I'm just going to visit my parents for this little vacation.
Wow - that's awesome!! What a fabulous start!
So I got the first step towards applying for the Fulbright done today - I heard from the program I want to study with at King's College in London and they like me and said they'll help me with admissions and write a letter to the Fulbright people!!!!!! It's just a baby step - I still have to jump through about 100 other hoops and beat out 800 other applicants for the scholarship but still...
Aw that'll be nice. Hope your dad's doing okay from his surgery.
He's doing okay, thanks. He's been pushing it lately, which is a bit worrying, but otherwise he's doing not bad. His eye is still itchy and sore, but it will take time for that to go away.
Glad to hear - keep him in line while you're there!
When I was visiting last month, my dad fell down the stairs. He was so angry/embarrassed. I felt really bad for him. He hates that his body is getting old.
Mmm, gymnosperms.
</flashback to biology class at school>
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here for a while - 6:30ish
hope everyone is well!S
how "old" is he?
ooooo way to go, zu!!!!! it's a BIG baby step I'd say!
I'm tired... and suddenly my To Do list got massive. I need to do my tax return, check my payslips online from the last 6 months cos I haven't looked at them and have been happily ignoring baffling fluctuations in my pay (although maybe I should do that before the tax return...), get my car its 100,000km service, try to get the UK consulate on the phone to make sure I have all the rights bits of paper for my citizenship application, then send the thing off (with $900, ow), figure out where I'm going to live because our share house is breaking up in about a month (one housemate very pregnant and going to move in with fiance, other two housemates engaged to one another and will be moving in with relatives so they can save money for wedding, no hard feelings), then move there, and somewhere along the line, catch up with a pile of old emails, move offices at work, and worry about my father's worsening dementia and my brother's sudden uncommunicativeness. And stay relatively sane, but who wants to do that.
Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled party.
This is my last day of work before vacation.