ATTENTION JULY FILERS!

[michellemilitza 1]

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s--Updated my entry to correct 'received date'. -Samby

Just added myself, I sent it to texas but I'll be transferred to VSC, I don't know when they'll receive it until I get my NOA1

[Arrta 1]

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s--Updated my entry to correct 'received date'. -Samby

Your item was delivered at 5:03 PM on July 28, 2007 in SAINT ALBANS, VT 05479.

SWEET!!! I only mailed in on the 27th

Added my name

[Bill y Bella 0]

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Re-entered Chris's instructions at bottom & moved michellemilitza to VSC.

[Jeraly 4]

Oh I am happy happy!! But now it has been two days since we got our NOA1 hard copy and I am *still* checking the updates every day just in case!!...

I feel we should all get to know each other better - I don't know how many people on this thread know each other well (through forums not irl obviously although that would be cool! ) and thought maybe a few nice stories of how people met their OHs might break the ice?! I like stories

[StillThePrettiest 3]

I like that idea and I, too, like stories

so why don't you kick off?

[Jeraly 4]

Awww! My story is massive... am I permitted to copy and paste from my website?!?! If not then I will try for the abridged version

[NonyGuy 0]

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Re-entered Chris's instructions at bottom & moved michellemilitza to VSC.

Added my name under the CSC list:) I paid by money order, so no idea when my NOA1 is. Hopefully it's in the mail already:)

[GeordieWife 1]

Hi all July filers. I filed on July 19th and they haven't cashed my check yet. I know they've probably got a flood of fee deadline filers so it may be awhile. I'm doing lots of silly things to occupy my time so I don't think about it too much and go crazy. I have a new worry now though when the fees go up that I'll be delayed because I won't be able to pay the huge fees to come. I think I'm gonna have to get a second part time job to start saving up now! Between the fees and plane fare, and my fiance having to pay bills from here (paying his bills is twice as expensive from here due to the exchange rate) I'm having a meltdown because he won't be able to work for a while once we're married. Okay....I think I need to RELAX!!!! Someone hit me over the head so I won't freak out.

Edited July 30, 2007 by GeordieLover

[Bill y Bella 0]

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Adjusted CSC sequence.

It looks like Babybluesusie and English Muffin (2 words ) are the early favorites to receive the first NOA2. But could there be an upset?

I hope we get some more people adding themselves to the list. Additional data will make the timeline more effective.

[StillThePrettiest 3]

already this feels like the beginnings of a cosy little clan!

but when's Jeraly going to post her story? someone else want to dive in while she's away?

[English Muffin 59]

already this feels like the beginnings of a cosy little clan!

but when's Jeraly going to post her story? someone else want to dive in while she's away?

I'll go but mine's rather boring. I was looking for a pen-friend so decided to post an ad on a pen-friends website in January 2004 and got quite a few responses. I decided to go with the person who replied first and that was Scott. We were pen-friends to start with but there seemed to be a 'spark' right from the beginning. We met in person 5 months later and the rest (as they say) is history.

Who's going next??

[selby226 0]

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[StillThePrettiest 3]

Who's going next??

sure; why not

in April 2004 I joined a newly established website devoted to films... the tiny but slowly growing forum turned out to attract all manner of people who later became great friends of mine (we're all still going strong; meet up with and chat with other members all the time), and David was one of those... we started with emails, and the odd phone conversation, just as friends, then after my move to London started talking on the phone more often (helped by the handy deal my phone card had: free weekend calls to the US; it would have been a shame not to use it... and then finally met up at our forum's first Intercontinental Get-Together (in Canada), and our suspicions, shall we say, were confirmed

still find it beyond mirthful that I'm going to end up in the States... so many people, when I've told them of my engagement, have had the first response 'that's hilarious!' (they know me well )... my mother just says it's proof that 'God has a sense of humour'

next?

[Jeraly 4]

Oh alright - I'll try for the abridged version - anyone who wants to read the full story and all the nitty gritty details can check out the website although it is missing parts at the moment

Basically I was in high school and they had blocked all the chat sites so it was our challenge to try and find somewhere, anywhere to chat online - this is going back about 8 years or so ago - maybe a bit longer? Eventually I found what was called a MUD (I don't know how many of you are familiar with MUDs but wikipedia has a good explanation ) which simply put was a text-based online roleplaying game where you could also chat.

I used to visit this site a lot even though in those days I had no internet access at home - I used to stay behind at school to go on the computers then go back home for tea (no - not drinking tea - dinner ;D). I met a load of people there and had a good time despite the horrendously slow network and outdated computers (yes I know - this is meant to be the abridged version!)

Cutting a long story short(er) I eventually went to university when I was 19 (2001) after making a few really good friends online. I was engaged and living in the pocket of my then fiance so moving away from all my family and friends back home and not being able to see my fiance every day took its toll and I ended up suffering from clinical depression. At this time I was only seeing my then fiance on weekends (oh what a luxury that seems now!) but my depression was dragging him down so I turned to my online friends for moral support, a shoulder and some objective points of view.

Eventually (again, cutting a long story short!) my relationship with my fiance deteriorated beyond repair and I moved back home to try and pick up the pieces of my life but at this point (Dec 2001) I was developing feelings for this one person online. We tried to hook up and make a go of it but I was suffering from depression and he was a bum who had no job and such low self esteem he never thought he would get one. Needless to say even though we struggled through an emotional amount of time, we decided to part ways (I think it was me getting back with my fiance who banned me from seeing Jeremy that did it ).

My fiance and I despite trying to make it work decided that really he was never going to trust me and I think I was more with him out of habit and security than the fact that the relationship was brilliant so we parted ways and lost contact for a couple of years while I went back to university to train to be a teacher. I had a few relationships, one lasting over a year and another couple that weren't too serious and from time to time Jeremy and I would touch bases and have a bit of a catch-up via e-mail. In the summer of 2005 we started contacting each other more often. I had just come out of a string of short-lived relationships and was generally fed up and had resolved to be single as I was damned if I was going to go through all that heartache for something that wasn't going to go anywhere!

Jeremy and I got talking and we were both happy where we were. I was doing my degree and really enjoying it, he had found work and was getting on really well with that as well. But the old feelings started creeping back. At first we pushed them to the side and tried to ignore them: after all, we had tried to make a go of it once before and it just didn't work out so what was going to be so different this time? But it was a downward (upward?!) spiral and Jeremy eventually resolved to come to the UK so we could meet in person before we made any "official" decisions.

That first meeting was the scariest thing in my life and although Jeremy was a miserable SOB (due to him having massive jet lag, a cold and me running around so he could meet everyone so he didn't get a chance to breathe!) we hit it off really well and decided to make a go of it. We had both grown up a lot and figured that we knew what we were letting ourselves in for - we really felt that we had something special there that was worth fighting for.

So I returned the visit and travelled to California on my own at Easter 2005 for two weeks, then I went back for seven weeks in the summer before he came here for three months. We've been through some hard times with his dad dying while he was here and him having to get on a plane with practically no notice to go sort out funeral arrangements and things. We worked doing stupid horrible jobs (delivering yellow pages, paper routes) so we could save enough money for him to stay here but without him working "illegally" - but we've got this far and I have no doubt in my mind that because we have managed to fight our way through so much together that we will continue to do so through our married lives

~The End~

*takes a bow*

[Jeraly 4]

still find it beyond mirthful that I'm going to end up in the States... so many people, when I've told them of my engagement, have had the first response 'that's hilarious!' (they know me well )... my mother just says it's proof that 'God has a sense of humour'

Hehe! Why so funny that you are engaged to an American!? My friends find it funny about me too but because of their opinions not mine!

Edited July 30, 2007 by Jeraly