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Finally, Some Great News!!
I've mentioned before how my husband is reluctant to check the mail at times since it can be so heart-wrenching with waiting for news from immigration. Today was one of the days he just couldn't bring himself to do so. I had checked the USCIS website early this morning for processing times, but they still hadn't been updated since last month. I had resigned us to waiting a couple more months based on the current times displayed, anyway. Much to our utter surprise today, our interview notice came
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Am I really okay?
I've felt pretty pleased with how I've been handling the load of stress on our plates recently. I've been optimistic and haven't let anything really weigh me down, except for at random moments of increased vulnerability. However, with a breakdown last night, I find myself wondering if I've really learned how to manage it, or if I am simply pushing it away and, in essence, avoiding it. My husband felt inclined to check up on some stuff with others who are going through the same immigration process
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The Peacemaker Marriage
We started a mini Bible-study session at church last night called "The Peacemaker Marriage." It's about 4 weeks long, so not long at all. It was a lot of fun! I found that my husband and I share a lot of similarities with Pastor Roger and his wife in terms of how we are in marriage. We kept giving each other looks when something described the other to a T. He couldn't understand everything 100%, but he was able to even catch some of the jokes ("She's impractically romantic." ..."He's practically
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Random Lunch Musings
My husband is short of seriously never checking the mail again. He doesn't want to feel disappointment every single time he opens the mailbox, so he's starting to leave it to me (gee, thanks!). I don't mind it, but I obviously share the same emotions with him. I called immigration on Tuesday, thanks to them having a nice holiday on Monday (don't get me started), and I was told exactly what I knew I would be told: keep waiting. At least everything is still fine. We're not stuck in name check or anything,
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A Good Weekend
I feel really good today. Our weekend started off a little rough, but we got over it and have been having a great time just relaxing and spending time with one another. I had typed up a post on Friday because I was feeling down, but then my comptuer decided it didn't want to cooperate anymore. I still have the post, but I haven't published it yet. I'll post some highlights from it for now, though: -My job is going very well. It's still very hard for me to get up so early, but my husband joked with
Posted to ☜Choensa's Corner☞
(Weblog) by Choensa on February 17, 2008
Filed under: immigration, job, baby talk, God, health, chocolate, pregnancy prep, exercise, shopping, sex, music
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One of those weeks...
It's been a rough week for us. We started feeling especially discontent about how long it has been taking for us just to get an appointment notice for his green card, so we looked into it. Our attorney sent our case to a more general processing center instead of the more "specialized" one in Chicago, which would have probably had our green card to us already. Our case is still being processed, but it is taking longer than it needs to. Our life is seriously on hold because of this. So anyway, yesterday
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Of course, in that same breath...
It looks like it may not be as easy as we thought it would be to again pursue our original plan. Thus, I really have no idea what we're going to do with my husband's probable upcoming job loss (his boss wants to close the school he works at or sell it to him, but it would not be a good investment on our end). It's hard just leaving it in God's hands, but I know it's taken care of. It's just hard sometimes. Similarly, this stuff with immigration is just nuts. I know we basically applied at the perfectly
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A very *special* Christmas card
We received quite the Christmas card today. It was from Immigration! It read, "Merry Freakin' Christmas and a Long New Year!" Which means we FINALLY received his work permit today. The people at InfoPass? Yeah, they lied. It was not sent to the correct address. We should have received it a month ago. Over a month ago. A LONG TIME AGO. Thankfully, the USPS mail forwarding system succeeded in getting it to us over a month later. We changed our address with immigration, but apparently, they still decided
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Disheartened by InfoPass.
The appointment at InfoPass did not help us in the way we would have liked it to. First of all, his work permit is just in limbo right now. The man said we should have received it by now, most likely, and that it wasn't returned. If we never get it, we have to reapply and pay the fees all over again, even though it's nothing we did. When we spoke with our attorney afterwards, he said just keep waiting for now. *Joy*. If we don't see it within another three weeks, we'll probably be going back to our
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Reflections on marriage thus far.
As I mentioned last night, today marks five months for us. I love my husband, and I love being married. The only aspiration I held for myself throughout the years was to spend the rest of my life with the man God made me for, the man God made for me. I changed my dream occupation thousands of times over, from "pianoist" in the first grade to Egyptologist in the third, and so on. However, my biggest dream never faded and only grew stronger as time went by. I still live each day with increased passion
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Sometimes, a girl just needs to cry.
I've felt super sensitive the past few days. I just barely touched a hot pan with the middle of my finger during lunch and nearly started bawling yesterday. Today, I just couldn't stop thinking about a lot fo things while preparing dinner, and I finally just let loose: started yelling about how stupid immigration is, how unfair it is that two people who are so in love have to go through this ordeal while others are granted immediate citizenship for various reasons, sob, sob, sob. Right now, I feel
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One down, three (four?) to go.
Today is resume/cover letter day. I just submitted one, and I have at least three more to go. Four jobs I am applying for are with Target Corp., and I am still debating on whether or not I should apply for the Ameriprise position. It's not really locationally ideal, so I am not sure. (Target Corp. isn't really an ideal location, either, seeing as we just moved from the cities, but it's definitely easier to access.) I found four different positions I am interested in and feel qualified for, so we'll
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"So, do you have some good news???"
A week or so ago, my husband's oldest sister had a dream that I was pregnant, so she told the family. His brother ends up calling us just to ask us if we had some good news to share. ^o^ Yesterday, he gave his sister a call just to say hi, and she told him that his mother now had a dream I was pregnant, so the whole family is now anxiously awaiting some "good news" from us. We are not pregnant, and we are not going to be trying until at least about a year down the line. I knew this would happen,
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Getting settled in.
So we moved out of our old place on October 31st, were homeless for 24 hours, then moved in to our new place yesterday. A few things have started to take shape, but otherwise, we have a huge mess ahead of us. @__@ All that really matters, though, is that our new bed is super luxurious. :D Tomorrow, we head up to St. Paul for his biometrics appointment. I've been excited for this since it feels like we are getting closer and closer to being done with it all (for two years, anyway). Hopefully, everything
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Surprise Job Interview, Name-Dropping and My Favorite--Immigration
Today was a very interesting day! While at work, I was processing a transaction for another employee who was bringing his department's earnings for United Way and getting a check to send off to them. We get to talking about what his position is, and I somehow come to mention that I applied for an auditing position, a program he had worked in temporarily. He asks me who's in charge of hiring, and it turns out he knows the guy. He said that when he got back to the office, he'd shoot him an email to
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Good news from immigration and apple picking!
Yesterday was a great day! My husband and I took my youngest brother to go apple picking, and it was just the absolute most perfect day we could have asked for. We went almost exactly this time last year, and apples were a little scarce. Antonio was an apple picking MACHINE, though! His bag of apples wound up weighing 10.44 pounds. XD He wanted to go for more, but we decided to go play in the haystack instead. We spent about $45 dollars there. @__@ We hung out at my family's house a little, playing
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♪ Keep on truckin'...
So I felt fine while lying in bed this morning, but as soon as I stood up, I thought I was going to toss my cookies. I still went to work because I just don't like sickness to overcome me, but I still wasn't feeling up to par. I wound up feeling a little better throughout the day, but I'm still not at 100%. What the heck is going on? It's a good thing I went in, however. Two people already had PTO for the day, one called in sick and another was a no-call no-show. We're kind of worried about her (the
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feeling a lot less stressed out.
well after a mini nervous breakdown this morning I think I have managed to put things back in perspective. I am not reccomending that anyone try and plan a wedding from two different countries to be held in a city that you don't live in. Ha Ha it's hell. Again my wedding planner has been my saving grace. I can't imagine what she is going to have to deal with on our wedding day. As some of you that have been reading my sporadic updates may know I am a Canadian marrying an American and things couldn't
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Soaked to the bone!
So before storm talk is immigration talk: I want to be sure I mentioned that we finally got the receipt number! It took a little longer than usual because so many people applied around the same time we did to avoid having to pay the higher fees (which were raised an INSANE amount!), but we finally have our case number at least! Next is waiting for the biometrics appointment (fingerprint), and then it's basically just a waiting game. Anyway, to the storm! We got hit with a pretty bad storm this evening!
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First post here since the wedding
It's amazing how time flies on by as we draw nearer to our 1-month anniversary! Marriage has been a true blessing for us in so many different ways. I have yet to gather myself enough to do a wedding recap post for either of our weddings (we got married in the US and then in Korea), but I'll get there someday. I've just got a couple of things that have been on my mind that I just kind of want to let out, I suppose. We got a call late last night from my husband's supervisor telling him that they want
Posted to ☜Choensa's Corner☞
(Weblog) by Choensa on August 1, 2007
Filed under: photographer, work, marriage, married life, hubby, immigration, highlight video, videographer
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