The CSC Sweepstakes

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

Wish this nightmare wasn´t happening. Sooner or later it´s gonna be a wake up happy day for all of u still waiting. I hope it´s gonna be much sooner than later

[StillThePrettiest 3]

y'know, at the moment, I just can't believe that... I KNOW it, but I can't see it, do you know what I mean? everything about the States just seems like a dream; I have no context in which to make plans, and there's just so much I can't envisage... it just seems like something I talk about, but which is never going to happen

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

y'know, at the moment, I just can't believe that... I KNOW it, but I can't see it, do you know what I mean? everything about the States just seems like a dream; I have no context in which to make plans, and there's just so much I can't envisage... it just seems like something I talk about, but which is never going to happen

try to relax some...go have a massage done or something nice like that and forget about the whole process...it kinda helped us not to think about it too much and we only checked the status online once in the morning and once in the evening...clicking and checking all day long might drive one nuts

[mox 298]

y'know, at the moment, I just can't believe that... I KNOW it, but I can't see it, do you know what I mean? everything about the States just seems like a dream; I have no context in which to make plans, and there's just so much I can't envisage... it just seems like something I talk about, but which is never going to happen

I totally know what you mean, although I'm coming from the other side of it. Having my OH over here with me seems like a dream. I tell my family and friends about her, but without her actually being here it just seems so incorporeal.

Be strong, have a pint of the good stuff, and don't stress too much. When I'm at my lowest, I try to imagine myself in the arrival area in San Franciso, watching her walk out of immigration, scanning the crowd looking for me...

[StillThePrettiest 3]

ooo, a pint of mineral water; lucky me

I know you're both right... and you know I do try; I'm generally pretty up about all this (or at least calmly resigned ) but at the moment it's just getting to me... you still won't find moaning of the 'why have people with NOA1s AFTER me got NOA2s BEFORE me???????' ilk, because I find that - well, let's just say 'rather pointless' and leave it at that , but I'm feeling pretty flat, I have to say

[DKM 0]

Yep and that feeling is the exact same way everybody on here seems to feel right before they are approved. It seems that now that we see people near our times get approved it makes each day difficult to wait out. I'm only checking once a day and that helps. don't fret, the CSC petitions tend to roll in Weds through Friday each week.

It is all getting a bit surreal though. My fiancee has stopped talking about life here and is refocusing on her life at home as its obvious things aren't going as quickly as we all thought they should be. Its normal to feel what you are feeling.

[StillThePrettiest 3]

thank you for your kind words

I know it's what we all feel... it's that one foot in both camps thing that's so weird; you're just in limbo for SO LONG... plus I've got the added fun-ness of not even being at home; I'm away from all my family and most of my friends, so support I might have if I was still living in Sydney is largely absent

*sigh*

oh well... this too shall pass

maybe not before I'm taken away in a straight-jacket, laughing and crying at the same time, but so be it

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

thank you for your kind words

I know it's what we all feel... it's that one foot in both camps thing that's so weird; you're just in limbo for SO LONG... plus I've got the added fun-ness of not even being at home; I'm away from all my family and most of my friends, so support I might have if I was still living in Sydney is largely absent

*sigh*

oh well... this too shall pass

maybe not before I'm taken away in a straight-jacket, laughing and crying at the same time, but so be it

R u trying to make me get up from my warm bed and fly over so you get some friend´s support?

[StillThePrettiest 3]

yes

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

yes

fine...let´s see what I can do

[Ovaltine Jenkins 5]

yes

fine...let´s see what I can do

checked the flights and there´s one cheap one on Dec 8 for me to get there but then it´s not so easy to get back here cuz the "before xmas period flights" this way get pretty expensive

i keep looking

[StillThePrettiest 3]

well, we're on eleven for the week... I think Vermont has just hit seven thousand and twelve

[*julez* 124]

well, we're on eleven for the week... I think Vermont has just hit seven thousand and twelve

Actually I think its only seven thousand and eleven!

[Brian & Kathy 0]

CSC is cranking them out better now now. We are up to 12 for the past 2 days alone, they just didn't process any 129s the first 2 days of the week. I bet we can still get nearly 20 by the end of the week.

Brian

[StillThePrettiest 3]

bet none of them will be mine

*mournful*

Edited November 30, 2007 by StillThePrettiest