The Vent - Part 2

[trailmix 77]

As far as I know for Vancouver beans, it's the consulate who sets the interview date. Have you tried emailing them? I emailed them and let them know I was in a time crunch as I needed to buy tickets etc, and could they inform me of my interview date as soon as it had been set. It was very easy and they usually email back within 2 business days. Their email address is: vancouverk@state.gov. Remember, when emailing them you need to have: Attn: K visas VAC2009.... (whatever your file number is) in the subject line. Otherwise they won't look at it. I learned that the hard way! Good luck. They were pretty quick when we had our interview. Hopefully they're as quick now!

i WOULD EMAIL Vancouver AND tell them the mess you had to go thru (paperwork sent to australia) they may take pitty on u and express everything

Yeah good point flames

[beans 7]

lol I've been in constant contact with Vancouver there is no pity on their end. I'll e-mail them first thing Monday though. Thank you everyone for your advice!

[Flames9_RN 358]

on the bright side--vancouver is normally pretty fast

[Hugglebuggles 60]

I agree! Unfortunately my manager is... not the nicest lady on the planet. It just bothers me that I wasn't given common courtesy when I've worked my butt off for them for 4 years! I constantly cover shifts when people call in sick or fail to show... just last week I covered 3. I'm the only person who does that. Oh well, karma is a b*tch.

Exactly. She's shot herself in the foot. She has two weeks to stew in the fact that now, when she gets her no-shows, she has no one to call. And you're free of a nasty manager. How sweet is that?

Yeah, don't be surprised if she calls you

Hey Huggle, since you are briefly glancing at houses - one other thing to know, regarding prices - is something called a 'short sale'. There are quite a few out there and the prices are misleading - here is basically how it works:

1. You see a house that has a great price - say 150 thousand on a house that might normally list at 200 thousand

2. In the description it will say something like - this is a short sale or sale price may not be enough to cover all costs

It's a nice realtor trick. Person is having trouble paying their mortgage or wants to move quickly. The realtor MAKES UP A PRICE! and posts that. So say you come along and offer the full 100 thousand - the owners then have to go to the bank and try to negotiate their mortgage down and ask the bank to accept your price.

This can take months and of course there is no guarantee the bank will go along with it.

Just a funny little scenario that I thought you might want to know about.

Plus - it is a grand time to be buying a house, with the tax rebate and all, but I understand that you have other expenses right now.

Yep, exactly! She's created her own troubles! The sad thing is that I never work with her, she works weird shifts (6-2) and I work 3-11 all the time, so the people she is hurting (besides me of course) are my two supervisors who now have to try and figure out how to fill shifts with me gone. Since I've been there for 4 years I'm first on the call list, and they always know I'll come in for them. I talked to my one supervisor yesterday and she's very mad on my behalf... she started calling her some nasty names out loud where everyone could hear. So I'm hoping that she at least says something to let the manager know how badly she screwed up! I've thought of calling the owners or calling Timmies head office but what good would that do? It wouldn't benefit me any... I'm not sure I can be that malicious. Two wrongs don't make a right.

I am in Ontario but I doubt there's anything they can do... I'm technically a part time worker so my hours aren't absolute... She keeps me just below the cut off so I can't get health benefits. What a nice woman...

As far as the house goes, its just a messed up market! I can't get my head around it all. I'm also very surprised that we found a gorgeous house that's virtually worthless with a continually shifting foundation and it was never disclosed in any of the listings we looked at! Its sad we had to actually contact a relater to get this information for us. I'm feeling like you can't trust anything you read. I've decided to put the searching off for quite a while... If we live in his parents house for a while, although I'm not looking forward to it, we can save up a lot of money. With a really strong down payment we'll be able to get something we really want instead of looking at all these lemons that disappoint us when we find out the truth about the house, the listing, the price, the location... whatever it may be. Looking for a home around a big city is not easy! Location is everything. There are so many nice neighborhoods, and there are so many terrible neighborhoods. As someone who doesn't know the area very good yet I can't conduct a proper search because I just don't know! I need to realize that I'm young, I'm unemployed, and I can't have the world right now. Its a hard pill to swallow but from here on out I'm going to give logic a try.

[Emancipation 2]

Soo.. I'm still fuming about the frozen juice that I found yesterday at a local Stop & Shop that was very clearly marked "natural", but when hubby looked at the ingredient list it had HFCS as the #1 ingredient.. you know what... that really makes me mad... WHY does the US accept HFCS in almost every piece of processed food on the supermarket shelves...

It's one thing that most processed food have sugar in them.. I get that.. but I have sugar at home in my cupboard and if I was making a recipe from scratch that is what I would use.. but WHO has a big old vat of HFCS in their cupboard ready to use whenever they want?? At LEAST you can buy MSG at the store... but you can't with HFCS - it's a chemically altered "natural" substance, so WHY in the world is is allowed in all food groups here in the US..

I know the answer of course.. a strong corn lobby.. www.sweetsurprise.com but it's REALLY irritating to me...

[Krikit 1,164]

Time to play your 'serene sounds' CD, E.

[Emancipation 2]

Time to play your 'serene sounds' CD, E.

Oh gal there ain't a sound serene enough on earth to calm me down on this particular topic

[trailmix 77]

This isn't really a vent. I'm really worried about my cat though - she hasn't been eating or drinking properly for a couple of days and she is mostly sleeping, which is not that unusual - just sleeping more than usual. Have booked her in to see the vet tonight, my Husband will take her over there.

[Krikit 1,164]

This isn't really a vent. I'm really worried about my cat though - she hasn't been eating or drinking properly for a couple of days and she is mostly sleeping, which is not that unusual - just sleeping more than usual. Have booked her in to see the vet tonight, my Husband will take her over there.

I hope she's okay, Trailmix.

[thetreble 19]

This isn't really a vent. I'm really worried about my cat though - she hasn't been eating or drinking properly for a couple of days and she is mostly sleeping, which is not that unusual - just sleeping more than usual. Have booked her in to see the vet tonight, my Husband will take her over there.

Hope she's okay. Think positively!

[trailmix 77]

This isn't really a vent. I'm really worried about my cat though - she hasn't been eating or drinking properly for a couple of days and she is mostly sleeping, which is not that unusual - just sleeping more than usual. Have booked her in to see the vet tonight, my Husband will take her over there.

Hope she's okay. Think positively!

Thanks you guys, yes, thinking positively!

[BermyCat 1]

This isn't really a vent. I'm really worried about my cat though - she hasn't been eating or drinking properly for a couple of days and she is mostly sleeping, which is not that unusual - just sleeping more than usual. Have booked her in to see the vet tonight, my Husband will take her over there.

I hope your kitty feels better soon.

~ Catherine

[Krikit 1,164]

I hope your kitty feels better soon.

~ Catherine

((((((((((((((((((Catherine)))))))))))))))))))))))

[thetreble 19]

So I buy peaches from the grocery store and they are white inside....

I do this every year here in the US...

I have to seek out YELLOW peaches....*grumble*

[The_Dude 1,142]

So I buy peaches from the grocery store and they are white inside....

I do this every year here in the US...

I have to seek out YELLOW peaches....*grumble*

My parents have 2 peach trees in their backyard, they have fruit 10 months out of the year, always yummy, and a nice shade of yellow/orange inside