Yardies, at home and a farrin'

[thndrdancr 0]

Good morning all.

You know, this is kinda weird, do any of you, when you argue, have things go a LOT better after than it did before? I dont know if its a learning experience, or what, but it seems when I get real upset w/ dat man, then after I go crazy and cry and stuff, THEN he "gets it". Why cant he "get it" BEFORE I get so upset???

I guess things are going ok here, just lil stuff. This weekend we went to the river, but the car broke down and my sis ended up having to come pick us up, and its a five hour drive, so I feel for her, being on the road so long. I woulda just stayed up there and took care of it, but Lake had a hissy fit bout missing class since its the last week, and he was to do major testing. Ends up he coulda missed, stupid teacher was sick and the substitute didnt know enuff to give the tests! I dont know bout your guys GED classes, but the teachers here dont take it seriously AT ALL!~

As far as his lil hissy, I was TRYING to stay upbeat til he went on and on and on (even mentioning walking out the door and heading for home) for 3 hours, then finally I broke down crying, saying its the MAN who is supposed to stay positive and tell the WOMAN "everting gonna be ok, dont worry", Ya BIG OAF!!! too many historical romances- ), and that even tho I live in this country, when somethin like this happens I DONT always know what to do either, and whats the big deal, we made it safely back to the trailer at least, we had food, shelter, and in MY FAMILY at least, as long as no one was dead, no one is hurt, or injured, then for pity sakes....THANK YOUR BLESSINGS, cuz it always can be a LOT worse.... Man I had a TIRADE, but he could barely understand it, I was sobbing so hard...he gets so upset & excited when I cry like that, its really kinda cute. Its just too bad I have to get to that point before he relaxes and calms down.

Normally he is my rock, and the one that calms me, so sometimes I dont know what sets him off sometimes when its really something I consider a little thing. Or to ME seems little. Yea we were kinda stranded in the middle of nowhere, but it wasnt on the highway, we made it back to the trailer at least before the car decided to die, so..what was the big deal???

Thanks for letting me rant, luv ya all.

My condolences all that have recently lost family members.

[phatmadame81 0]

I'm back....but I had to catch up on my travel business stuff. Sorry about the delay...

All in all my trip was GREAT, exhausting.....but.....except for my Embassy experience !! Here it goes...

We stayed the night at the Hilton (awesome place), right around the corner (short walking distance) from the Embassy. We got there at 6:30am, there was about 40 or so people already in line. We got in about 7:30am. Dropped off our interview letter at Window 1. Waited for about 30 minutes, called to Window 4. She (not so nice) asked Craig if he'd ever been to the states.....No.....who was his fiancee.....my name. Asked why we had 2 I-134's, but kept both. Gave back all but 2004 & 2005 tax stuff. Then asked us to sit down to be called. Waited another 15 min called to Window 9 ....HE was BIGGEST a&&hole EVER !!!!!! He asked Craig to sign the forms, but we had forgotten to bring a pen. We asked NICELY if we could borrow a pen, he literally THREW down his headset and HUFFED and puffed away. He RELUCTANTLY let us BORROW a flippin pen. He asked Craig about 4x whether he'd been to the states. Asked if he'd ever been in trouble with the law, stopped by the police or had a criminal record. Craig answered that he had been in a car years ago, but nothing ever happened to him. Then he fingerprinted him.

He proceeded to look at our OLD paperwork, meticulously looked through our pictures --which were about 10 pages long. I asked him if he would like some additional pictures, letters, phone records, etc.....NEVER looked at me and said, that wouldn't be necessary. Then he asked Craig, to go sit down and he was going to talk WITH ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This guy, I'm tellin ya, was the most UNPLEASANT and sarcastic person. He gave me an extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemely hard time about our age difference, asked if "I" thought there would be that passion and romance once he got to the states, like it was on the "beaches of Negril". I nicely reminded him that I've been coming to Jamaica for over 10 yrs and that I've been back several times since I met Craig in November of 2004. He gave me an extreeeeeeemely hard time about my income. I make WELL over the poverty limits, but he was looking at the paperwork TOTALLY incorrectly and I politely pointed that out to him. When you have your own business, you file differently than any personal income. That's why I had everything stapled together with a BRIGHT pink sticky note, stating the difference. Even making almost $27,000 (not including my child support and my part-time job) in 2004 was NOT "good enough" in his eyes. He never ever looked at my employment letters or child support statement proving the extra income. Never looked at the I-134, just kept going over and over and over again about the 2004 & 2005 income tax info ---which, in fact is OVER the "poverty level" !!!

Craig's medical still wasn't back from Andrews, so he gave us that Blue form....221 ? whatever it is. I asked him could we go by the Hospital and pick it up and bring it back, he said ...sure, but you can come back on Tuesday or Thursday, but NOT today !!!!! I asked him if he wanted to speak with Mr. V and he said, no and I thanked him and he said Good Luck. We were never "sworn in" either?? ya know raise your right hand....

So, we went over to the Hospital and they said it was already sent over to the Embassy. It's been a TOTAL runaround, god only KNOWS where the medical ####### is.

That's where we are.....I guess that means approved, pending the medical?? If I wasn't there, he would have totally denied Craig !!!!!

Now if anyone has to go to Window 10.......American chic was WAY WORSE than Window 9 guy. She was soooooo rude to the lady that was being interviewed next to us. I felt sooooooo sorry for her !!!

Saga still continues....till ????

Congrats to those and I'm sorry to hear about the loses as well.

Kelly

Good morning Ladies,

Kelly congrats on your approval- sorry to hear that it was so negative. I can just imagine what we ( the ones to go for interview later) will go through. These people in the embassy have their strings tied too tight.

[tenika 0]

Good morning Everyone

Pleaseee stoppppp.

All you natural people are scaring me, everyone natural or wanna be natural, Score like 7 to 2, anyone else on my side. This is one conversation I will not be sharing with Rohan, who is praying for me to stop "creaming" my hair.

Good morning. I wanna be Naptural

Kelly - sorry about the Embassy drama. Craig will be here soon

Kelly Sorry to here about the expereincing , I am hoping everything turns out well for you.

[Shemmy 4]

Good morning Everyone

Pleaseee stoppppp.

All you natural people are scaring me, everyone natural or wanna be natural, Score like 7 to 2, anyone else on my side. This is one conversation I will not be sharing with Rohan, who is praying for me to stop "creaming" my hair.

Good morning. I wanna be Naptural

Kelly - sorry about the Embassy drama. Craig will be here soon

Kelly Sorry to here about the expereincing , I am hoping everything turns out well for you.

Damien loves my hair "creamed". I just decided to stop because my hair is thinning out badly. Not sure if I'm ready to cut the cream out yet so I'll wear my hair in braids for a few months.

[jkb919 0]

Hey everyone,

Just checking in and wanted to say HELLO....I am doing fine and I hope everyone else is.

Kelly - what a horrible time you had at the embassy....as for our interview we went to window 10 and the lady was nice to us...they did not have his medical either from Andrew's hosp....she said to come back on Tues or Thurs but I asked her if we went that day to the Hosp and they had sent it to the embassy already could we come back...she said yes and gave us a card that said we could come back that day at 1pm. We went to the Hosp and they said they had just delivered it to the embassy....(they must have delivered it while we were doing to interview or right after the interview)??? GOOD Luck when he goes back hopefully everything will work out..

Kim - congrats on your interview date...things are moving along for you.

[Elizabethnhenry 0]

ACCK! I forgot to mention my super important news.

WE PUT OUR AOS PACKET IN THE MAIL TOAY!!!FINALLY!!!!

Edited June 6, 2006 by Elizabethnhenry

[tenika 0]

ACCK! I forgot to mention my super important news.

WE PUT OUR AOS PACKET IN THE MAIL TOAY!!!dance: FINALLY!!!!

Joanna: Great hearing from you, I hope all is well

Congrats on moving forward Jill

[Ms Squitto 0]

ACCK! I forgot to mention my super important news.

WE PUT OUR AOS PACKET IN THE MAIL TOAY!!!FINALLY!!!!

Congrats

[phatmadame81 0]

ACCK! I forgot to mention my super important news.

WE PUT OUR AOS PACKET IN THE MAIL TOAY!!!FINALLY!!!!

CONGRATS.

[Elizabethnhenry 0]

Hey Joanna!

Good to see you!

Kelly - keep us posted.

Nebraska Jill: Yes, we have watched too many soap operas and romantic movies have warped us! Straight men don't do those things we have been trained to crave and worship while growing up and feasting on all that #######. They make our men seem abnormal when they are not. Even American men probably can't fit the shoes of those dashing, romantic men on the big screen.

Hey Mindy! You see we filed our AOS, let the random, unsolicited, yet desired, touching begin!!! Wohoo!!!

Kimone! - How are our babies doing??? Are you all hungry!!!???

[nyseness 0]

Good morning ladies.

I have a couple of questions. For those who got married/or will in JA is the average cost of the weddings out there especially when you're planning from here? And for the K3 interview what type of questions did they ask? I'm trying to figure out the interview process for K3 & compare it to the K1? I have been doing some serious thinking and I am REALLY feeling the K3.

Edited June 6, 2006 by nyseness

[luvtravlin 0]

Hey everyone,

Just checking in and wanted to say HELLO....I am doing fine and I hope everyone else is.

Kelly - what a horrible time you had at the embassy....as for our interview we went to window 10 and the lady was nice to us...they did not have his medical either from Andrew's hosp....she said to come back on Tues or Thurs but I asked her if we went that day to the Hosp and they had sent it to the embassy already could we come back...she said yes and gave us a card that said we could come back that day at 1pm. We went to the Hosp and they said they had just delivered it to the embassy....(they must have delivered it while we were doing to interview or right after the interview)??? GOOD Luck when he goes back hopefully everything will work out..

Kim - congrats on your interview date...things are moving along for you.

The Window 10 lady was reeeeeally rude to the Jamaican lady and her grand-daughter. I just felt SO sorry for her. She was not sympathetic at all!!!

This guy was adamant about us NOT being able to return that same day. I even said to him, my fiancee lives 4 hours away and I leave tomorrow, there's nothing that we can do about coming back today?? and he just shrugged his shoulders, like ....oh well !! If that glass wasn't there, I woulda whipped out my can of WHOOP A&& !!!!

Craig is heading back down on Thursday!

[Minfay 0]

Hey Mindy! You see we filed our AOS, let the random, unsolicited, yet desired, touching begin!!! Wohoo!!!

And let me be the first to say:

It's about time!!!!!

Let the touching begin :energetic:

[Jonesie 1]

Hey Eliz - congrats on AOS packet in mail

I wanna go to JA too

Kelly - congrats

Thdancer/Lake - sorry to hear about the argument, but if things are better now then that's a good thing

Hey Jojo

[brownnskinn 0]

Good morning Everyone

Pleaseee stoppppp.

All you natural people are scaring me, everyone natural or wanna be natural, Score like 7 to 2, anyone else on my side. This is one conversation I will not be sharing with Rohan, who is praying for me to stop "creaming" my hair.

Good morning. I wanna be Naptural

Kelly - sorry about the Embassy drama. Craig will be here soon

Kelly Sorry to here about the expereincing , I am hoping everything turns out well for you.

I agree with Shamonya well her hubby...I guess.. I would rather have long creamed hair, but I am too cheap to take care of it It falls out on me. So I haven't permed it in a while. So I'm with you, I think you should do that suits you. I'm usually too busy, to do anything other than braids.

Hey everyone,

Just checking in and wanted to say HELLO....I am doing fine and I hope everyone else is.

Kelly - what a horrible time you had at the embassy....as for our interview we went to window 10 and the lady was nice to us...they did not have his medical either from Andrew's hosp....she said to come back on Tues or Thurs but I asked her if we went that day to the Hosp and they had sent it to the embassy already could we come back...she said yes and gave us a card that said we could come back that day at 1pm. We went to the Hosp and they said they had just delivered it to the embassy....(they must have delivered it while we were doing to interview or right after the interview)??? GOOD Luck when he goes back hopefully everything will work out..

Kim - congrats on your interview date...things are moving along for you.

The Window 10 lady was reeeeeally rude to the Jamaican lady and her grand-daughter. I just felt SO sorry for her. She was not sympathetic at all!!!

This guy was adamant about us NOT being able to return that same day. I even said to him, my fiancee lives 4 hours away and I leave tomorrow, there's nothing that we can do about coming back today?? and he just shrugged his shoulders, like ....oh well !! If that glass wasn't there, I woulda whipped out my can of WHOOP A&& !!!!

Craig is heading back down on Thursday!

I thought the person at window 10 was a man :lol:I'm sure he lost his job for being too nice

Hey everyone,

Just checking in and wanted to say HELLO....I am doing fine and I hope everyone else is.

Kelly - what a horrible time you had at the embassy....as for our interview we went to window 10 and the lady was nice to us...they did not have his medical either from Andrew's hosp....she said to come back on Tues or Thurs but I asked her if we went that day to the Hosp and they had sent it to the embassy already could we come back...she said yes and gave us a card that said we could come back that day at 1pm. We went to the Hosp and they said they had just delivered it to the embassy....(they must have delivered it while we were doing to interview or right after the interview)??? GOOD Luck when he goes back hopefully everything will work out..

Kim - congrats on your interview date...things are moving along for you.

The Window 10 lady was reeeeeally rude to the Jamaican lady and her grand-daughter. I just felt SO sorry for her. She was not sympathetic at all!!!

This guy was adamant about us NOT being able to return that same day. I even said to him, my fiancee lives 4 hours away and I leave tomorrow, there's nothing that we can do about coming back today?? and he just shrugged his shoulders, like ....oh well !! If that glass wasn't there, I woulda whipped out my can of WHOOP A&& !!!!

Craig is heading back down on Thursday!

Oh my.....fa true He was asking for one

Hey Mindy! You see we filed our AOS, let the random, unsolicited, yet desired, touching begin!!! Wohoo!!!

And let me be the first to say:

It's about time!!!!!

Let the touching begin :energetic:

Let me the second .....Congrats!!!

Edited June 6, 2006 by Dee&Dav