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[LeprechaunSean 0]

Hey has anyone taken out US cash in montreal? where did you do it?

[Peachey 10]

There are a TON of currency exchanges in Montreal. There was one right next to my hotel.

You can also pay in Canadian, but you have to pay their exchange rate.

In other news, I apparently have astigmatism in my left eye. My glasses should be in Monday...

/sigh, I had perfect vision until my headaches 4 years ago

[Carlawarla 1]

Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it to post my thoughts about certain subjects here or to just keep my mouth shut.

Post them and we'll tell you!

Ok, I would NEVER have thought of doing that in a million years. But the next time I have week old bread sticks I'll try it

You can also revive them in a damp paper bag and heat them in the oven or microwave.

Good morning everyone! I love Wednesday's....twice a month it's my bridge club day at the library! I'm sure to have a good time. No house chores on Wednesday's either. Enjoy your day!

I have no idea how to play bridge. But some of the ladies' bridge club here where I live get really snarky if I'm in the workout room while they're playing in the next room. That makes me not want to play. lol

How do you get away with no house chores?? I need to try that. lol

Yoga night tonight. Not sure how I feel about that. lol

The people who I play bridge are the most awesome and friendly people I've ever played bridge with! They're never snarky...matter of fact, they'd be asking you to come in and join, and if you said you didn't know how to play they'd be offering to teach you!

I get away with no house chores except for cooking on Wednesdays because I do all my chores on certain days, and I split them all up. Dusting and vaccuming on Monday. Bathrooms and bedding on Tuesdays. Thursdays I do laundry and wash floors. Friday is vacuuming again and maybe one more load of laundry....actually Saturdays I don't do chores either! I empty the dishwasher, do touch up's during the week as well that need doing, but I just mean no concentrated once a week chores on Wednesday's.

[Malrothien 6]

There are a TON of currency exchanges in Montreal. There was one right next to my hotel.

You can also pay in Canadian, but you have to pay their exchange rate.

In other news, I apparently have astigmatism in my left eye. My glasses should be in Monday...

/sigh, I had perfect vision until my headaches 4 years ago

I've had an astigmatism in my right eye since birth. It's hereditary in my family. I only wear my glasses when my eyes feel tired or I have a headache.

[SapphireDreams 71]

There are a TON of currency exchanges in Montreal. There was one right next to my hotel.

You can also pay in Canadian, but you have to pay their exchange rate.

In other news, I apparently have astigmatism in my left eye. My glasses should be in Monday...

/sigh, I had perfect vision until my headaches 4 years ago

I've had an astigmatism in my right eye since birth. It's hereditary in my family. I only wear my glasses when my eyes feel tired or I have a headache.

I'm the same Mal! I have astigmatism in my right eye and I really only wear my glasses when I have a headache or am tired or sometimes when I watch tv because I find the tv can get blurry.

I actually think I need a new prescription though, I've noticed my glasses haven't really been helping me lately.

[Malrothien 6]

There are a TON of currency exchanges in Montreal. There was one right next to my hotel.

You can also pay in Canadian, but you have to pay their exchange rate.

In other news, I apparently have astigmatism in my left eye. My glasses should be in Monday...

/sigh, I had perfect vision until my headaches 4 years ago

I've had an astigmatism in my right eye since birth. It's hereditary in my family. I only wear my glasses when my eyes feel tired or I have a headache.

I'm the same Mal! I have astigmatism in my right eye and I really only wear my glasses when I have a headache or am tired or sometimes when I watch tv because I find the tv can get blurry.

I actually think I need a new prescription though, I've noticed my glasses haven't really been helping me lately.

I think I've had maybe four prescription changes so far. I hardly ever wear the glasses now and have found that my prescription isn't getting worse the less I wear my glasses. Weird, eh?

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

Haha. I just printed out a few screenshots of my email folder for ones my wife has sent me. At the bottom it shows how many emails are in the folder. 2675. Yup...in less than two years, my wife has sent me 2675 emails. The scary part is that I've probably sent her MORE than that...

Add that to the records of 60 hours per month on the phone and I think it's pretty compelling proof of relationship, no?

[lgg 2]

Think you may need a little more there, Wyatt... Geez.

Verbose little duo, eh?

j/k

Haha. I just printed out a few screenshots of my email folder for ones my wife has sent me. At the bottom it shows how many emails are in the folder. 2675. Yup...in less than two years, my wife has sent me 2675 emails. The scary part is that I've probably sent her MORE than that...

Add that to the records of 60 hours per month on the phone and I think it's pretty compelling proof of relationship, no?

[Malrothien 6]

Haha. I just printed out a few screenshots of my email folder for ones my wife has sent me. At the bottom it shows how many emails are in the folder. 2675. Yup...in less than two years, my wife has sent me 2675 emails. The scary part is that I've probably sent her MORE than that...

Add that to the records of 60 hours per month on the phone and I think it's pretty compelling proof of relationship, no?

Depends - how many of those are spam?

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

Haha. Well, most of them are just a few sentences -- mainly during the day at work where we'd have our personal webmail open in a separate browser and flick back and forth to it throughout the day. And then of course there were the occasional "explanatory" emails where I felt compelled to get all deep and verbose in trying to put a feeling into words.

But most of our relationship has been phone-based.

I had to be quite discerning about what selection of emails to screen shot. Some of our subject lines were pretty goofy. A rather inordinate amount had "sushi" in them...

[trailmix 77]

It's funny, you read a lot on VJ where people send emails from their SOs to USCIS as proof of relationship.

Personally? I would never give them 1, not 1 email or piece of correspondence - if that meant a denial - so be it.

Don't get me wrong, i'm not criticizing anyone who has - you have done what you thought you had to do to get approved - just personally that would be a...no.

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

Well, I'm not sending them actual emails. I've taken screenshots of the email folder, which shows Name, Date, Subject line...and that's about it. It shows about thirty emails per screenshot, and I took six or seven screenshots, each separated by a few months. If nothing else, it demonstrates a steady and frequent email correspondence since the beginning of 2008, while not showing any of the personal content.

[trailmix 77]

Yeah, I know, I actually read posts - it just made me think of it in general.

[Malrothien 6]

I didn't send emails either. I don't believe it's any of their business what's in our emails. I know where you're coming from, TM.

[SapphireDreams 71]

We never sent anything from the online world as evidence. I didn't feel like it would help my case at all. Anyone can maintain an online relationship in my opinion.

We showed boarding passes, receipts from the cruises we went one showing us both in the same cabin, and telephone records, but even that was overkill. Oh and photos, which they gave back to me at my interview... which almost made me feel like they believed us without even needing any photos.

Wyatt - honestly - you guys seem to visit eachother a lot. Just keep your boarding passes and take some pics everytime you're together. I don't think you need to bother with the emails personally.