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wow, I'm away for a day or two and I miss so much!!

happy holidays, Julez... SO envious; I think you SHOULD kiss the ground for me :D

but you can choose a clean patch ;)

great news on Adriano's job, Susie! that will make a whole lot of things better, I'm sure :)

and Marta, having a little boy!! oh, I'm so excited for you :)

will you guys speak to him in Czech and English? I always think it's such an advantage for a kid if they grow up bilingual :)

hello and hugs to everyone else too, who I didn't mention by name... missed you guys :)

my news -

we went to Austin for the weekend, and had a fab time; we ended up calling it our fake honeymoon, as we didn't have one at the time; it really was loads of fun :)

even though we only went for the stupidest of reasons - Dave needed a print-out of his driving record from the Austin DMV, to contest a speeding fine, and had left it too late for it to be sent through the mail :lol:

other, less fun, news -

Chase bank refuses to add me to Dave's account :angry:

first it was because they wouldn't believe I was a permanent resident, as I have no green card (yes, that old chestnut), and then once I'd convinced her otherwise it was because I didn't have proper official papers showing my residential address :wacko:

mind you, I had the state-issued (and officially stamped) wedding certificate (which didn't count), and my social security card (which didn't count); they wanted a utility bill (which I'm not on as I don't have any money or bank account with which to organise payment) or a letter from a school or college where I was enrolled as a student... I brightened up at that, and said that I'll be starting my volunteer tutoring soon, so could the school write me a letter? she went off and asked, but came back saying that if I had been going there as a student, it would be fine, but as I'll be a tutor, they can't accept it :blink:

I admit my tolerance for this sort of thing is low, as it's pretty recently that I was persona non grata in the UK as well, with no credit rating, and no way to set up things like bank accounts and so on, but sitting there on Monday I was ready to lose it... I stayed very polite, but stalked out of the place and had to be very bright and chatty with Dave to stop myself crying; this sort of thing is so farking galling, to be treated like an idiot child wherever you go...

anyway

no bank account, but I AM going to start my tutoring on the 5th of August; I've observed a lesson, and attended my training day, and am raring to go :)

so some things work out... things I do for myself, evidently ;)

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The Very Secret Diary of Legolas Son of Weenus - by Cassandra Claire

Day One: Went to Council of Elrond. Was prettiest person there. Agreed to follow some tiny little man to Mordor to throw ring into volcano. Very important mission - gold ring so tacky.

Day Six: Far too dark in Mines of Moria to brush hair properly. Am very afraid I am developing a tangle.

Orcs so silly.

Still the prettiest.

Day 35: Boromir dead. Very messy death, most unnecessary. Did get kissed by Aragorn as he expired. Does a guy have to get shot full of arrows around here to get any action? Boromir definitely not prettier than me. Cannot understand it. Am feeling a pout coming on.

Frodo off to Mordor with Sam. Tiny little men caring about each other, rather cute really.

Am quite sure Gimli fancies me. So unfair. He is waist height, so can see advantages there, but chunky braids and big helmet most off-putting. Foresee dark times ahead, very dark times.

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Hi,

Just checking in to see what everyone is upto and how u guys are doing. My husband's greencard finally got approved a few weeks ago but then we had to move to the middle of nowhere :wacko: . Hopefully will be back home soon!

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and Marta, having a little boy!! oh, I'm so excited for you :)

will you guys speak to him in Czech and English? I always think it's such an advantage for a kid if they grow up bilingual :)

Hehe :D Poor little boy will catch bad English from me and bad Czech from Scott :D

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STP that´s pretty weird what your wrote about the bank account. They are racist and discriminational :P I think you should forget all about some Chase bank since that´s a pretty weird name anyway and go set up your stuff with Dave at a different bank. I haven´t had such problems anywhere. All they wanted was two forms of an ID (F)

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oh, Dave likes Chase... he's got his salary going through them, and has loads of points on his credit card... plus he likes that there are ATMs everywhere :wacko:

we'll work something out... like put my name on the gas bill for a month or something ;)

so stupid... when I was in London this is how new-comers often got round the strict bank rules; get a friend to put the gas bill in their name for a month, and then take the bill off to open the account, and the friends would then change it back... so what does it protect, if it's that easy to mess with? absolutely nothing... you'd think a state-issued marriage certificate would be far better, and harder to forge, but no :angry:

and you speak the Czech, and Scott speaks the English, silly one :P

bilingual kids usually take a month or two longer to start speaking, but when they do, they usually have both languages perfectly separate :)

so fabulous... I know twins who are bilingual in English and German, so I can understand them both ways, but they looked at me all goggle-eyed when I said something to them in German once; they thought everyone else only spoke one language, and they knew I spoke English :lol:

061017001as.thumb.jpg

The Very Secret Diary of Legolas Son of Weenus - by Cassandra Claire

Day One: Went to Council of Elrond. Was prettiest person there. Agreed to follow some tiny little man to Mordor to throw ring into volcano. Very important mission - gold ring so tacky.

Day Six: Far too dark in Mines of Moria to brush hair properly. Am very afraid I am developing a tangle.

Orcs so silly.

Still the prettiest.

Day 35: Boromir dead. Very messy death, most unnecessary. Did get kissed by Aragorn as he expired. Does a guy have to get shot full of arrows around here to get any action? Boromir definitely not prettier than me. Cannot understand it. Am feeling a pout coming on.

Frodo off to Mordor with Sam. Tiny little men caring about each other, rather cute really.

Am quite sure Gimli fancies me. So unfair. He is waist height, so can see advantages there, but chunky braids and big helmet most off-putting. Foresee dark times ahead, very dark times.

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generally not; if they're living in an English-speaking country they'll end up with the accent of the country, regardless of what their parents sound like ;)

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The Very Secret Diary of Legolas Son of Weenus - by Cassandra Claire

Day One: Went to Council of Elrond. Was prettiest person there. Agreed to follow some tiny little man to Mordor to throw ring into volcano. Very important mission - gold ring so tacky.

Day Six: Far too dark in Mines of Moria to brush hair properly. Am very afraid I am developing a tangle.

Orcs so silly.

Still the prettiest.

Day 35: Boromir dead. Very messy death, most unnecessary. Did get kissed by Aragorn as he expired. Does a guy have to get shot full of arrows around here to get any action? Boromir definitely not prettier than me. Cannot understand it. Am feeling a pout coming on.

Frodo off to Mordor with Sam. Tiny little men caring about each other, rather cute really.

Am quite sure Gimli fancies me. So unfair. He is waist height, so can see advantages there, but chunky braids and big helmet most off-putting. Foresee dark times ahead, very dark times.

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well, things with adriano's job didn't turn out exactly as we had hoped, so we are back to square one...

we showed up on tuesday at the house where the boss was going to explain to me the tasks to be completed, so that i could then relay the message to adriano...turns out the boss is a little bit off his rocker, because once we got there he started telling me that he didnt know what work he had for him that day, and he doesnt know how he is going to expain instructions to adriano since his english isnt so great...i tried my best not to get extremely angry since we had previously gone over both of these points and reached an agreement...also turns out that one of the workers on the site speaks fluent italian and was very nice (we struck up a convo with him while waiting for the boss to arrive)...i mentioned this to the boss and he basically told me that the other dude wasnt hired as a translator, and had his own problems to address....basically every word out of this guy's mouth made me more and more angry...not to mention that we didnt like him from the start, as he was a bit of a jerk at the interview, but we let it slide and decided to see what happens...so basically he told me that he would call us back later that day, because he had to look at the list of projects he currently has, to find something for adriano, which he could begin working on the following day...basically he wasted our time and doesn't know how to run a business, PLUS he is a jerk...so we decided to keep looking...wish us luck!!

and yes, StP and Marta, bilingual babies rock...there are studies that show that children who grow up bilingual tend to be more open-minded, since there are concepts in one language that can be captured with a single word, while in other languages, there may be no way to explain the same concept at all. it helps them be able to see things from multiple perspectives.

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Awww sorry to hear that about the job (F) But since that guy is a jerk anyway Andriano wouldn´t probly like working for him for too long. Unless he doesn´t care about jerks since he can´t understand them :P I am sure you´ll find something better for him :) Does that mean he now refuses to go to the English class since he didn´t get the job? :(

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the 9th it is! i am open for anything, you guys let us know and we'll be there! SOOOO excited!

we'll be flying out to oklahoma to be at erics grandparents 80th birthday next weekend. man..... i really don't like his family a whole lot.....

Awesome!!! Apparently there is a place called Big Nose Kate's in Tombstone that my mum went to in February - she said they do really nice wine and asked us to pick some up for her!!! I'll look into it a little more and see what I can figure out for a meeting place then let you know - woohoo!! We'll be "legally" married then too!! Heheh :D

As for family... I can kind of understand you... Jeremy's family are very sweet though but a lot of hard work. Spending time with his aunt is like looking after a five year old (no joke - Jeremy has got the uncommittal noises and phrases down to a tee: "uh-huh," "cool," "that's nice," etc etc - you get the picture...), his brother is very sweet but has special needs and as well as this insists on saying he is going to do something then doesn't (he's 23). I think his whole family frustrates me because they had a difficult life and upbringing and don't seem to want to help themselves and aspire to greater things - I just don't understand people with no ambition... Jeremy has proved it is possible but... it just frustrates me... :wacko:

End rant!!

other, less fun, news -

Chase bank refuses to add me to Dave's account :angry:

first it was because they wouldn't believe I was a permanent resident, as I have no green card (yes, that old chestnut), and then once I'd convinced her otherwise it was because I didn't have proper official papers showing my residential address :wacko:

mind you, I had the state-issued (and officially stamped) wedding certificate (which didn't count), and my social security card (which didn't count); they wanted a utility bill (which I'm not on as I don't have any money or bank account with which to organise payment) or a letter from a school or college where I was enrolled as a student... I brightened up at that, and said that I'll be starting my volunteer tutoring soon, so could the school write me a letter? she went off and asked, but came back saying that if I had been going there as a student, it would be fine, but as I'll be a tutor, they can't accept it :blink:

I admit my tolerance for this sort of thing is low, as it's pretty recently that I was persona non grata in the UK as well, with no credit rating, and no way to set up things like bank accounts and so on, but sitting there on Monday I was ready to lose it... I stayed very polite, but stalked out of the place and had to be very bright and chatty with Dave to stop myself crying; this sort of thing is so farking galling, to be treated like an idiot child wherever you go...

Hrmmm I must say I was expecting there to be a massive problem with getting a bank account set up as well - as it happens, after BofA screwed us over and stole Jeremy's money, he closed his account so we both needed a new account. We went to WaMu, explained what was going on and got a checking account each and a joint savings account. I only had to show my passport and visa and they created me a non-resident account. Then when I got my SSC I went back with it and they activated my debit card and changed my account to a resident one - I had to sign as a US person which I thought was funny :lol:

But yeah - all in all, much less painful than I was expecting!

Hi,

Just checking in to see what everyone is upto and how u guys are doing. My husband's greencard finally got approved a few weeks ago but then we had to move to the middle of nowhere :wacko: . Hopefully will be back home soon!

Hey! Good to see you back!! Great news on the GC!! I can't believe some of us are getting them already - I haven't even filed AOS yet!! Hehe :D

and Marta, having a little boy!! oh, I'm so excited for you :)

will you guys speak to him in Czech and English? I always think it's such an advantage for a kid if they grow up bilingual :)

Hehe :D Poor little boy will catch bad English from me and bad Czech from Scott :D

:lol: Marta you crack me up - your kids are going to be wonderful I can tell :D Lovely bump piccie as well by the way ;) Hehehehe :D:luv:

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Haha :P I´m not sure I would like the kids to have my sense of humor since sometimes it´s not so easy for other people to get me I think :blush: But on the other hand they could keep amusing themselves with it forever :D

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I think you have a great sense of humour Marta - besides, you'd understand them and it would be the happiest family alive!!!

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I second that; I LOVE your sense of humour, Marta, and think it would be one of the best things you could pass down to a child :)

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The Very Secret Diary of Legolas Son of Weenus - by Cassandra Claire

Day One: Went to Council of Elrond. Was prettiest person there. Agreed to follow some tiny little man to Mordor to throw ring into volcano. Very important mission - gold ring so tacky.

Day Six: Far too dark in Mines of Moria to brush hair properly. Am very afraid I am developing a tangle.

Orcs so silly.

Still the prettiest.

Day 35: Boromir dead. Very messy death, most unnecessary. Did get kissed by Aragorn as he expired. Does a guy have to get shot full of arrows around here to get any action? Boromir definitely not prettier than me. Cannot understand it. Am feeling a pout coming on.

Frodo off to Mordor with Sam. Tiny little men caring about each other, rather cute really.

Am quite sure Gimli fancies me. So unfair. He is waist height, so can see advantages there, but chunky braids and big helmet most off-putting. Foresee dark times ahead, very dark times.

 
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