Thursday was Thanksgiving, DUH! But to me it just felt like a normal regular old day. For me Thanksgiving is the start of the holidays. It starts everything. Without the whole giant family meal, I am still sitting here in Chile without the tiniest feeling that Christmas is coming. On Thanksgiving Day Rodrigo and I didn't really do that much, but that night he took me to Applebees because I was really craving some buffalo wings! We decided to eat and not worry about the bill. It was nice, we shared an order of buffalo wings (which later Rodrigo was describing it to his mom, I had to cut in laughing and tell him that it really isn't buffalo, its chicken hahaaha) and I enjoyed a Long Island Iced Tea, mmmmm!! Ro had a bacon cheeseburger and fries and I had the crispy orange chicken, I'm pretty sure in the US its called the orange chicken bowl, but I'm not sure on that. It was really nice. We had a really nice time. It has been a long time since we have gone out and had a nice peaceful time just the two of us! In all we spent 25,000 pesos, about $50. I don't care. But that wasn't enough to get me in the Christmas spirit. I finished a Santa outfit for Zoe today, I surprise myself it turned out great for being a beginner at crocheting and for not following a pattern at all!! She hates the hat and the sweater is a bit warm for Chile Xmas weather, but it will be useful for next Christmas and she really only needs to wear it for a few minutes while we get out first family Christmas cards made!! I am excited!! I will post some pics later of just Zoe in her outfit, she pretty much hates the Santa hat and I took about 15 pics and only one is actually kind of good!
Tomorrow we are having a mini Thanksgiving dinner here at our house. I am kind of excited! Actually I get to cook so I'm a lot excited!! We are going to have chicken instead of turkey because theres not enough of us to eat an entire turkey! I am also going to make an apple pie and maybe buy a thing of vanilla ice cream to go with that. I'm going to make scalloped corn too. It's going to be a small meal, but I think it will be a lot of fun. Jessica and D are coming and Pancho and Romy are also coming! I am excited that it worked out in the end! I should really hit the hay because I have lots of fun stuff to do tomorrow! Grocery shopping, cooking!! and everything else!!!
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Finding Peace
The long road that Rodrigo and I have been looking for is harder to find than originally thought. The process for the direct consular filing will not happen, it cannot happen. Everything you find online will not tell you everything you need. Now a new search will begin.
In the beginning I thought that love was strong enough to make everything happen, well love is strong, love may be the strongest thing there is in this life, but it cannot make miracles that you want to happen.
So now I look where I should have looked in the beginning. The answer will come with time. I have learned that patience is something that I don't have. Something that I need to learn to have in life in order for things to happen the way they need to.
My goal is to be in the US with my husband when we walk down the aisle on August 8th, 2009 in the church I have been going to since I was a little girl.
Now, I will look at every other option that we have. There has to be something we can do. I just have to be patient and find it first.
Peace
In the beginning I thought that love was strong enough to make everything happen, well love is strong, love may be the strongest thing there is in this life, but it cannot make miracles that you want to happen.
So now I look where I should have looked in the beginning. The answer will come with time. I have learned that patience is something that I don't have. Something that I need to learn to have in life in order for things to happen the way they need to.
My goal is to be in the US with my husband when we walk down the aisle on August 8th, 2009 in the church I have been going to since I was a little girl.
Now, I will look at every other option that we have. There has to be something we can do. I just have to be patient and find it first.
Peace
Monday, November 24, 2008
Update: We Finally Made it to the US Embassy BUT FUCK IT ALL!
UPDATE
SCRATCH EVERYTHING THAT I WROTE PLEASE AND WHAT I SAID ABOUT THE FUCKING SUBSTITUTES IN CHILE, THEY CAN ALL FUCKING DIE AND GO TO HELL. OUR THING WASN'T RIGHT AND I BLAME THAT ON THE FUCKING EXTRANJERIA BECAUSE I FILED FOR A PERMENENT RESIDENCE VISA NOT A FUCKING TEMP VISA. SOOO NOW I HAVE TO FUCKING REAPPLY AND HOPE THE PEOPLE IN THE EXTRANJERIA GET THERE FUCKING HEADS OUT OF THEIR FUCKING ASSES AND DO THIS SHIT THE WAY I FUCKING ASKED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE SO I MIGHT AS WELL CONSIDER ALL THIS SHIT RIGHT BACK AT FUCKING SQUARE ONE! IF I MAKE IT TO MY OWN FUCKING WEDDING I WILL BE LUCKY. FUCK CHILE AND ALL ITS FUCKING "GOVERNMENT ""OFFICIALS"" OFFICIALS MY FUCKING ASS!
All right so since I haven't yet said anything on this topic I will go ahead and tell you that YESS we FINALLLLLY went to the Embassy! Meaning?? Well let's start at the very beginning! Since I haven't worked there in almost a month I don't blame myself for forgetting that Friday November 21st is the day that almost every single student going to the US with a J-1 Visa for the summer was also going to the US Embassy...stupid me! So we went and as soon as we got there there was a crowd of people, inside and outside. But of course like always I shine out my US passport and for some reason they let me in right away, take my electronics, and give me a little plastic 1. I looked at it and thought 1?? NO way! I am first then the man that handed it to me told me I was the only one going to the window for those services, so go right up to the window... NICE!! So we went to the window only to find out that both of the people that take care of that visa were out sick. Umm No sir I don't want to come back on Monday I want to take care of this NOW!! So they brought in a substitute. I talked to her filled out some papers with Ro and paid the $355 fee for the application of the visa. Now I just have to hope that this "substitute" really knew what she was doing. They gave us a packet of papers and we have to wait for a call or an email saying that the application was accepted before we can start the rest of the process. According to the papers a doctor visit is next. A $140 doctor visit and he can only go to one of the only 2 choices there are. I am now seriously in the waiting game and hoping that everything goes how I want it to! So wish me, or I should say us luck!! I will update when I hear what is next!!
SCRATCH EVERYTHING THAT I WROTE PLEASE AND WHAT I SAID ABOUT THE FUCKING SUBSTITUTES IN CHILE, THEY CAN ALL FUCKING DIE AND GO TO HELL. OUR THING WASN'T RIGHT AND I BLAME THAT ON THE FUCKING EXTRANJERIA BECAUSE I FILED FOR A PERMENENT RESIDENCE VISA NOT A FUCKING TEMP VISA. SOOO NOW I HAVE TO FUCKING REAPPLY AND HOPE THE PEOPLE IN THE EXTRANJERIA GET THERE FUCKING HEADS OUT OF THEIR FUCKING ASSES AND DO THIS SHIT THE WAY I FUCKING ASKED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE SO I MIGHT AS WELL CONSIDER ALL THIS SHIT RIGHT BACK AT FUCKING SQUARE ONE! IF I MAKE IT TO MY OWN FUCKING WEDDING I WILL BE LUCKY. FUCK CHILE AND ALL ITS FUCKING "GOVERNMENT ""OFFICIALS"" OFFICIALS MY FUCKING ASS!
All right so since I haven't yet said anything on this topic I will go ahead and tell you that YESS we FINALLLLLY went to the Embassy! Meaning?? Well let's start at the very beginning! Since I haven't worked there in almost a month I don't blame myself for forgetting that Friday November 21st is the day that almost every single student going to the US with a J-1 Visa for the summer was also going to the US Embassy...stupid me! So we went and as soon as we got there there was a crowd of people, inside and outside. But of course like always I shine out my US passport and for some reason they let me in right away, take my electronics, and give me a little plastic 1. I looked at it and thought 1?? NO way! I am first then the man that handed it to me told me I was the only one going to the window for those services, so go right up to the window... NICE!! So we went to the window only to find out that both of the people that take care of that visa were out sick. Umm No sir I don't want to come back on Monday I want to take care of this NOW!! So they brought in a substitute. I talked to her filled out some papers with Ro and paid the $355 fee for the application of the visa. Now I just have to hope that this "substitute" really knew what she was doing. They gave us a packet of papers and we have to wait for a call or an email saying that the application was accepted before we can start the rest of the process. According to the papers a doctor visit is next. A $140 doctor visit and he can only go to one of the only 2 choices there are. I am now seriously in the waiting game and hoping that everything goes how I want it to! So wish me, or I should say us luck!! I will update when I hear what is next!!
Friday, November 14, 2008
About That
I was so ready to write a post about how it sort of just skipped over spring and is super warm here in Santiago, but here I sit in warm fuzzy pj pants and a sweatshirt!! The last few days it has been so hot here! I think this room where I spend most of my life is horrible! The sun beating on the tin roof must be why it gets so hot! Rodrigo and I share a small bed, here its called a 1 and a half plaza bed, but seriously its like an inch wider than a twin bed!! So with this heat, it is very uncomfortable to sleep at night and during the day it is too hot to sleep! So I haven't been getting a lot of sleep! But I have been getting sooo tired that I will randomly fall asleep for hours at a time.
The weather here makes me think of all the delicious summery food that we eat in the US during the summer time. It also makes me wonder, why don't they eat colder food here? In MN we always had bbqs with burgers and brats then lots of different cold salads. Fruit salad, Snickers salad, potato salad, ten or so different bow tie noodle salads, and fresh veggies and dip, watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe, grapes!!, they are so refreshing in the heat! But here in Santiago, Rodrigo's mom makes the same things year round, piping hot plates of mashed potatoes, chorkican however that is spelled, soups, soups and more soups! I can't take it! The first day I got here in January, I couldn't even finish my food because 1, it was way too hot in the house and 2, it was too hot of food for me! My face turned bright red and I thought I was going to pass out! When I asked Rodrigo about this he told me that it is always like that. They always eat hot food, year round! Well, he was wrong, one day out of this entire year, Rodrigo's mom made stuffed tomatoes. One day. Another Chilean friend explained this to me by telling me that we can't eat any vegetables raw. When I asked why?, she said because they are bad for you. I told her that I am not dead yet and I have been eating raw veggies since I could chew! And if they are so bad, why can you eat tomatoes, lettuce, and palta raw?? Do they not grow in the same dirt with the same "bad water"?! She then tried to tell me that the vegetables in the US must be safer. I am pretty sure that A LOT of the veggies that we get in the US are from.....CHILE so how can the ones we get be safe and the ones that stay here be "dangerous" if they are from the SAME place! I also once asked why when they cook the veggies they cook them to nothing more than a flavorless lump of mash? Well, do you really want to know the answer to that one? That's how you know they are safe. Ha! Safe!? That's how you know you just boiled all the nutrients out of them and their only purpose now is to tell you that you are a good girl, you are eating your vegetables, you will live a long and healthy life.
Well, I'm tired, its nice and cool here and I have the bed to myself, I am going for a quick little nap before my husband gets home!
The weather here makes me think of all the delicious summery food that we eat in the US during the summer time. It also makes me wonder, why don't they eat colder food here? In MN we always had bbqs with burgers and brats then lots of different cold salads. Fruit salad, Snickers salad, potato salad, ten or so different bow tie noodle salads, and fresh veggies and dip, watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe, grapes!!, they are so refreshing in the heat! But here in Santiago, Rodrigo's mom makes the same things year round, piping hot plates of mashed potatoes, chorkican however that is spelled, soups, soups and more soups! I can't take it! The first day I got here in January, I couldn't even finish my food because 1, it was way too hot in the house and 2, it was too hot of food for me! My face turned bright red and I thought I was going to pass out! When I asked Rodrigo about this he told me that it is always like that. They always eat hot food, year round! Well, he was wrong, one day out of this entire year, Rodrigo's mom made stuffed tomatoes. One day. Another Chilean friend explained this to me by telling me that we can't eat any vegetables raw. When I asked why?, she said because they are bad for you. I told her that I am not dead yet and I have been eating raw veggies since I could chew! And if they are so bad, why can you eat tomatoes, lettuce, and palta raw?? Do they not grow in the same dirt with the same "bad water"?! She then tried to tell me that the vegetables in the US must be safer. I am pretty sure that A LOT of the veggies that we get in the US are from.....CHILE so how can the ones we get be safe and the ones that stay here be "dangerous" if they are from the SAME place! I also once asked why when they cook the veggies they cook them to nothing more than a flavorless lump of mash? Well, do you really want to know the answer to that one? That's how you know they are safe. Ha! Safe!? That's how you know you just boiled all the nutrients out of them and their only purpose now is to tell you that you are a good girl, you are eating your vegetables, you will live a long and healthy life.
Well, I'm tired, its nice and cool here and I have the bed to myself, I am going for a quick little nap before my husband gets home!
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Ramdom this and that update!
First I would like to start off with a little bit of this weeks group post, my story is not that complicated. Rodrigo and I speak in English almost all the time. The times where that doesn't happen is when Ro is sleeping and wakes up to tell me something. Then he will usually speak in Spanish then repeat in English. Our dog on the other hand Rodrigo speaks to in both Spanish and English and mostly everything comes out Spanglish. One day I hope we will be able to communicate in both languages. We both get really impatient when speaking Spanish that right now we are just speaking English.
Second! A comparison! Valley Fair compared to Fantasilandia. I went to Fantasilandia today, and yeah ok it was fun, but shit! I went on like 6 or 7 rides and waited in line the rest of the time. I was disappointed though, I thought there would be at least one real roller coaster! but nope! They had something that looked amazing but sadly it won't be finished until January! Now for those who don't know, Valley Fair is in Minnesota and I have to say that I enjoy it a lot! I would like to compare The Extreme Fall here to the Power Tower in MN. Extreme Fall, go to the top don't wait, just drop before your heart and stomach are in your mouth, stop abruptly. About one second of a fall. BORING! Power Tower! This would be the red tower. Go to the top, sit there, sit there, start panicking because you don't know when it's going to fall! Start talking to your friend while admiring the view. Suddenly drop mid sentence and make a grunting noise when being cut off from talking. Fall fall fall. By this time you can't breath, laugh, scream in my case. Come back up a bit and bounce sort of up and down and land gradually. About 5 second or so of a fall! FUNNN!!!
Third!! I have received a paper in the mail telling me to go to the extranjeria to get my visa put into my passport!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D!!!!!!!! If you don't remember in a previous post I said they said it would take about 3 months before I got this paper. And I was looking at January 10th! And it came here on November 8th!!! Which means I may be in MN with the man in February!!! A little happy?? UMMMM YESSSSS!!! We are going to the extranjeria on Monday then hopefully getting ALL paperwork and then going to the US Embassy to file my petition for the spouse visa into the United States for my hubby! This process says that it takes about 2 months so I am going to count on it taking the full 2 months! If it is accepted we will set up an interview at the Embassy then off to that and if he gets the visa off to the States!! Am I a little happy???? UMMM YES!!!!
Second! A comparison! Valley Fair compared to Fantasilandia. I went to Fantasilandia today, and yeah ok it was fun, but shit! I went on like 6 or 7 rides and waited in line the rest of the time. I was disappointed though, I thought there would be at least one real roller coaster! but nope! They had something that looked amazing but sadly it won't be finished until January! Now for those who don't know, Valley Fair is in Minnesota and I have to say that I enjoy it a lot! I would like to compare The Extreme Fall here to the Power Tower in MN. Extreme Fall, go to the top don't wait, just drop before your heart and stomach are in your mouth, stop abruptly. About one second of a fall. BORING! Power Tower! This would be the red tower. Go to the top, sit there, sit there, start panicking because you don't know when it's going to fall! Start talking to your friend while admiring the view. Suddenly drop mid sentence and make a grunting noise when being cut off from talking. Fall fall fall. By this time you can't breath, laugh, scream in my case. Come back up a bit and bounce sort of up and down and land gradually. About 5 second or so of a fall! FUNNN!!!
Third!! I have received a paper in the mail telling me to go to the extranjeria to get my visa put into my passport!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D!!!!!!!! If you don't remember in a previous post I said they said it would take about 3 months before I got this paper. And I was looking at January 10th! And it came here on November 8th!!! Which means I may be in MN with the man in February!!! A little happy?? UMMMM YESSSSS!!! We are going to the extranjeria on Monday then hopefully getting ALL paperwork and then going to the US Embassy to file my petition for the spouse visa into the United States for my hubby! This process says that it takes about 2 months so I am going to count on it taking the full 2 months! If it is accepted we will set up an interview at the Embassy then off to that and if he gets the visa off to the States!! Am I a little happy???? UMMM YES!!!!
Thursday, November 6, 2008
ZOE!!
Here are a bunch of pics of Zoe including our trip to the beach and the before and after of her first haircut!!
1. Zoe not running away from the wave fast enough!
2. Zoe before the haircut with her hair in a little pony!
3. Just being cute!
4. Having a snack...yes for some reason she loves toilet paper!
5. Looking cool!
6. After her haircut. Yes you can laugh, yes she looks ridiculous and yes I almost cried when I saw what they did to her! Take a little off all over apparently means shave her entirely....
7. This is a flashback so you can see how she has grown!!
Elections on BBC
Sadly I wasn't able to go to the Basic Bar on election day, but at least BBC had election info. About BBC, I have never in my life seen such shitty bullshit as I did on BBC on election night! The reporters and interviewers were HORRIBLE! I mean absolutely rude! They didn't just talk to people, they mostly tried to pick fights ALL night long! The interviewers were not informed in any of the issues they were talking about and asking about!! One guy was in a Republican party when it was clear that Obama was to be the next president. He talked to a man there and didn't know about the things he was asking about and he was being really rude asking so much about what they are going to do now that they lost and how he felt that they lost when they didn't even lose yet! No I am not a republican and yes I am glad that Obama won, but it really is uncalled for to be asking things like that when the counting wasn't over yet and final speeches weren't given yet. Then the host of the show kept asking things too that you just don't ask. He was asking the Americans that were there on the show about Jesse Jackson. Ok, fine ask about him, but don't try to make it look like he was mad because HE wasn't the first black president! This same host also had a video call with this author I can't remember his last name, but I'm pretty sure his first name was Vidal. This man was old old probably late 80s or so and this host who I really wish I would have gotten HIS name!!! Anyways, the host kept asking questions to the man and then turning what he said around the man of course was not stupid and let the host have it! He told the host that he has no idea who he is, but he knows that all that man ever does is try to get people that aren't informed in what he is asking about so that he can try to humiliate them. The host pretty much had to swallow his tongue. All the Americans in the studio with him were just laughing at him. I don't think he learned though! He also asked the Americans what the people in the Middle East are going to do when they wake up and find out that a man named Barack Hussein Obama is now the president of the United States. Umm well he's an American through and through! American blood runs through his veins! His name does not make him a terrorist! I am pretty sure that I will NEVER watch any news on BBC its bullshit!
On another note!! YES WE CAN!!! I am very happy that this new change has come to the wonderful US of A!!! I understand completely that we have a rough and hard climb to get out of this crater that Bush created and I am willing to fight for it too. I know that Barack can't just wave a stick and divide the Red Sea to bring us to the promised land, it will be hard and it won't be and overnight thing. For all of those I have on Facebook threatening to move out of the country because we are "doomed" go ahead! I don't think they really understand that Obama is also what other countries wanted for the US. Ok thats all I have to say about that! Peace!
On another note!! YES WE CAN!!! I am very happy that this new change has come to the wonderful US of A!!! I understand completely that we have a rough and hard climb to get out of this crater that Bush created and I am willing to fight for it too. I know that Barack can't just wave a stick and divide the Red Sea to bring us to the promised land, it will be hard and it won't be and overnight thing. For all of those I have on Facebook threatening to move out of the country because we are "doomed" go ahead! I don't think they really understand that Obama is also what other countries wanted for the US. Ok thats all I have to say about that! Peace!
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