~July 2007 K-1 Filers~

[bakofoil 27]

hi all, sorry I've been away for a bit... been really busy

the place where I volunteered to tutor English asked if I could do some more hours - general office work, admin, assisting a program director, and helping co-ordinate a symposium coming up in September... all pretty simple, and pretty close to what I was doing in my last job (well, one of my last jobs ) in London, so it's been good, and great to be doing something and meeting people and all that

as well as teaching ESL to people who need it and are motivated enough to come to classes; it's great

still haven't filed for EAD

feeling really stupid about that now... at first it was because we were getting the cash together, but now it's just me dealing with things the way I sometimes do when I feel overwhelmed by them - by ignoring them and pretending that by so doing, they will go away... it's dumb of me, and just delaying when I can start actually earning some money (which is even dumber, cos we're starting to need it) so I'll make the effort in the next couple of days

if anyone wants to help me out in any way...

Hey StP, good news on the volunteer job. We were struggling for cash too, and I was panicking about the cost of AOS, then I got overwhelmed and now I feel stupid because a friend has offered me a really good job and whilst he could probably wait on me for 6 weeks it's unlikely my EAD will come through in time. I am still working on the final bits of the AOS package and feeling really despondent about being so ridiculous about it.

oh, we have our greencard interview tomorrow and i really don't feel quite prepared......

Good luck with that!

[Jeraly 4]

i don't want to go to work tomorrow......the weekend was over WAYYYYYYYYYY tooo fast.

dang!

Awww - My weekends are filled with cleaning so that we can enjoy Jeremy's days off on Mondays and Tuesdays... thing is, I get back online and everyone is overjoyed at "hump" day and to me it is just like Monday

Sorry guys I wasn´t able to attend on Friday. I swear I hd a bottle of water ready to bring But time is running against me these days. I have a lot of thingsto finish before the trip

Aww Marta - when is it you leave? You must be sooo excited

hi all, sorry I've been away for a bit... been really busy

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still haven't filed for EAD

feeling really stupid about that now... at first it was because we were getting the cash together, but now it's just me dealing with things the way I sometimes do when I feel overwhelmed by them - by ignoring them and pretending that by so doing, they will go away... it's dumb of me, and just delaying when I can start actually earning some money (which is even dumber, cos we're starting to need it) so I'll make the effort in the next couple of days

if anyone wants to help me out in any way...

I wondered what had happened to you!! I am hoping to get all my forms off today (I have everything I am going to send here - I just need to put it together and hope Jeremy gets home before 5pm...) so if you have any questions then give me a shout - I have had bunches of questions and feel like a complete n00b all over again so it has been pretty funny You can be an August filer too if you get your finger out - there are bunches of us July-ers there

Debz, I feel bad for your kitty, but that description was quite funny.

So, I went wedding dress shopping today. For those of you who didn't know or had forgotten, Scott and I will be having our "real" (real to me anyway, though non-legal) wedding sometime next year in Montreal, after he has AP of course. So I went to the new Pronovias flagship store here in NYC and ooooh... it was fun. I consider myself to be extremely picky; most things I've looked at in magazines I just don't like for one reason or another. But actually putting the dresses on, feeling their weight and beautiful material... wow! I really enjoyed myself. The first thing I did when I got there was flip through their beautiful books of pictures, and I didn't realize they pretty much had them from most expensive to least expensive. So I'm looking at all these $10k & $8k dresses & kind of freaking out! That's way out of my budget. Most people's, I'm sure! But I was good and didn't try on anything out of my reach and it was awesome.

Seconded!!! I was giggling at the poor little kitty's misfortune!

As for dresses - why not try them all on? Even the expensive ones!! I mean you don't have to buy them and it is fun - I tried on this nasty looking pink sparkly thing with feathers and it didn't look too bad on if you were going for a Katie Price-esque wedding I tried a fishtail one on too and looked like I had tried to cram two oversized sausages into a sock - so not a good look for a wedding!! Heheh I should really post some piccies of our wedding up now that it is all official

oh, we have our greencard interview tomorrow and i really don't feel quite prepared......

YAY!! Good luck! I've been keeping an eye on the date because I knew you had it on the 20th Let us know how it goes!!!

[weedebz 0]

I loved the dress shopping too. It was so nice to be able to wear such beautiful dresses. We had a fairly small wedding as my family didn't come over for it so it was just 45 of Nick's family (he has a huge family). We had it in a lovely old church (stuhr museum) and had a small understated buffet reception in a function room of a bar in the oldest part of downtown Grand Island that my mother in law knows the owner of. Everything was kept simple. I made my own invites and reception flower displays. My cake was amazing and only $200 from Hy-vee. I loved it all and it cost less than $4K for everything. At the end of the day, we wanted everything to be nice but didn't want to turn the wedding into a show that distracted from the real meaning of the day.

[Jeraly 4]

Totally agree Debz - ours prolly cost a little more than yours (not including my family flying over) but what really killed us was the honeymoon in Hawaii we're still suffering the credit card bills for that but it was so worth it as we had such an amazing time

I think smaller is better - I see some of these HUGE weddings and have to wonder sometimes if it is a bit of a popularity contest My cousin had a huge church wedding and there were prolly people there she hadn't seen in years. To me I find it a bit weird - I just wanted the people I cared about around

So Debz - any news on the net yet?!

[Jeraly 4]

Hehe - look what I found in our local news:

http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...ce=nletter-news

Now I want to get the book!!

[rae_and_scott 1]

Haha, Aly, I think your attitude about the dresses is awesome. But the reason I can't try on the super expensive ones is that I just know I'll fall in love with one and I will somehow try to work it out in my head that I could maybe have it -- when I can't. And then I'd be crushed. And all I want is to feel really happy with the one that I do choose, and not have that overshadowed with what I can't afford. I just can't tempt myself!

I agree that smaller is better. If Scott and I had things truly our way ONLY the people we really care about would be there and it would be really small. But... when parents give you money, they get to have some say too, and I just know his mom is going to want to invite people I probably have never even met (I hate that). We are looking at maybe 125 guests. That's WAY more than I would like (my list is like 30), but at least it's not one of those superhuge 300 guest insane affairs! Sorry, I don't mean to offend anyone who wants or has had a huge wedding. I think every person should get to have just what they want. I just want a small one! I'm starting to learn that a lot of compromising is going to be involved... but it won't be all on my part!

[StillThePrettiest 3]

I still don't think you could have a smaller or cheaper wedding than ours

I hate clothes shopping... it was a relief to me not to have to buy a wedding dress

[chris4gretchen 1]

I think I sent 2 for each

Looks like you and Gretch will be having babies within days of each other. Congrats!!. great way to bring in the new year !.

Chris

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Haha Thanks Nice to hear from you again What´s new?

Agnes good luck with the interview tomorrow

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Well Friday and Saturday we are attending a 200+ guests wedding. I think it´s gonna be beautiful even with lotsa people there There are gonna be about 6 of us with big bellys, so we are gonna get a pic with the bride Then have to get back sometimes on Sunday and pack and stuff and fly on Monday. Pretty busy

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

I don´t like clothes shopping either. But went and picked my wedding dress in like 5 or 10 mins. So I was very happy with that. And they were beautiful I didn´t want any other. And they didn´t even cost thousands of dollars. It was about 600 I think

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

So Rach, are you saying you don´t feel like you are married or something? I can´t imagine to do a legal wedding and not feel like being married and be more excited about a wedding that is like a year later. Aly did it the other way round and her fake wedding was the real one cuz it was the first one. I am confused

[Jeraly 4]

So Rach, are you saying you don´t feel like you are married or something? I can´t imagine to do a legal wedding and not feel like being married and be more excited about a wedding that is like a year later. Aly did it the other way round and her fake wedding was the real one cuz it was the first one. I am confused

Hahaha - well given a choice we would have just had the one, but as it was, we had to do it our way and I wouldn't change it for the world - to me, marriage is about making a promise to someone you love, not just the legal paperwork - that is all our second wedding was

[rae_and_scott 1]

I *do* feel married, but I do not feel that I ever had a wedding -- because we didn't have one. I want the ceremony and the reception with the people I care about there to celebrate with me. Although my life with Scott feels right and I know he is my husband, what we did at City Hall was purely legal and we only did it that way because of the rules of the K1. So I am still looking forward to the party part of it all.

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Ok, that makes sense But you look pretty on your wedding pic