Yarnivorous

G'day all! I've been missing in action. Well I've certainly been active. Early this month DH resigned from his old job.  He had found a new job. This means going and getting new visas. yay. not. Peonies, taken on the new phone Actually getting the visas is fine.  It is the amount of work I have to do to organise it all that is the PITA.  Y'see it is up to me to deal with the paperwork.  This means encrypting mountainloads of images and scans and getting more scans and information together for the immigration lawyers, and providing all sorts of details for their side of the deal.  This takes a number of hours.  Then one has to do stuff online to schedule an appointment at any of the US consulates in Oz, Canada or the UK.  Canada is close and we've never been to Quebec and it is close to Nathan's works head office, relatively.... Then when one has just spent three hours online putting All One's Own Details and those of one's Beloved ...

G'day all! It is almost June already.  Where has the year gone? This May has been interesting.  It is a month of changes, of farewells - both my parents died in May, many years apart - and this year is no different. Dunno what it is about May but if it weren't for the beauty of spring and early summer here, I'd go a bit nuts.  (More nuts.) My love affair with dogwoods continues... A while ago, DH was approached by a recruiter.  This happens quite often - the IT industry is really quite incestuous and they are always on the lookout for good people.  They thought that he was a different person of the same name, but it turned out that DH was in fact the right guy.  They had discussions and then those turned into interviews, and the upshot is that DH is leaving Amazon. We are not leaving Seattle... This means getting new visas.  Yay!  Not.... Every time we have to get new visas, we have to do mounds of online paperwork. Sorry, th...

G'day all! We are now down in Melbourne for Christmas.  My little old bomb (car) made it down without a hitch.  900km/560 miles over two days, in part because we left in the afternoon, too late to make it in one day and in part because I hate driving that far in one day, particularly with only one driver. We have visaed.  (That isn't a word, btw.)  It only took about an hour and a bit, most of which was waiting in a queue.  I managed to read about four pages of my book in that time.  You can't take knitting into the consulate.  At least they provide magazines these days.  The first time we went there, we didn't take books, there were no magazines and the tv was showing the screen saver for the DVD player it was hooked up to.  And we were there for over three hours.  OMG, nearly died of boredom. We were told we should expect the visas next week.  Hooray! So Seattle, yes Seattle for all those who guessed correctly, is GO GO GO...

G'day all! How things change. I've been sitting on News. Yep. OK, only for two days (oooh, just realised that it is Friday the 13th!) but that is a long time to sit on News. We will be returning to Australia before Christmas. For good. Well at least for the time being. We got our new visas on Monday. Hooray! Thank you US consulate for such quick processing :-) But on Wednesday, we got a phone call. Nathan's boss called up and said that Nathan had lost his job . (The boss lost his as well). So no job = no visa. All that work for nuthin'! But all our current stuff is in the US! The car, our day to day living stuff, my craft stuff, Nathan's hobby stuff, etc, etc. Plants. (And I was looking forward to being back and getting life back to normal. A big fat HAH to that!) So we go in on tourist visas and get rid of our stuff or box it up to send it home and come back home. This is good (Home! Christmas! Yay!) and bad (didn't finish things off in the US a...