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[Rosey_L]

cp angel got her visa ,,,,,rack 1 up for new Brunswick,,,,,lets make it 2 soon

you should have one pretty soon, always including you and your wife in my prayers

 

[Dan_from_Surrey]

hello ,,,,is anybody there,,,,,,30 hours without a post

Yeah, I think that is the longest stretch I can remember for no action in this thread, must be lots of other action going on though, and that is a good thing ;D.

I have been busy as the proverbial one legged man in a a** kicking competition, building this loft bed for the little one , and just hanging on by my nails waiting for him and my wife to get their passports returned with the visa stamps now, I would like to think that time is (hopefully) getting close.

 

[CanadianJeepGuy]

Its a very strange transition when you have spent the bulk of your relationship time through the internet and then have to actually do real things in real time with your real life partner. The computer to which your whole life was wrapped around now just gets opened less and less each day. This is a good thing of course but I still feel a loyalty debt to this forum. Maybe as time passes and the names here become less familiar I will just stop altogether. Unfortunately now I have to hang around to see how Goonerclank makes out.

 

[CanadianJeepGuy]

There is a certain amount of adjustment to this new life. I was pretty stressed out about the whole thing and how it would be resolved. I have had no expectations of my wife and just given her all the room she needs to make our house her home. We explore the city/province together and pretty much do everything together expressing how we see things, what makes sense from our own perspectives, where we would agree and disagree on things. Its almost the same approach that we had getting to know each online but now we do it with all the small things.

Every day just gets better and easier.

 

[Dan_from_Surrey]

There is a certain amount of adjustment to this new life. I was pretty stressed out about the whole thing and how it would be resolved. I have had no expectations of my wife and just given her all the room she needs to make our house her home. We explore the city/province together and pretty much do everything together expressing how we see things, what makes sense from our own perspectives, where we would agree and disagree on things. Its almost the same approach that we had getting to know each online but now we do it with all the small things.

Every day just gets better and easier.

Well said, I know me wife and I (especially I) will have some very big changes and challenges when they finally arrive. For me, having a third set of little footsteps around with her(our) son is going to be a huge change for me, and already I have been read the riot act, for buying to many toys and goodies for his imminent arrival (really, a kid can have to many toys? Apperantly so as I have been informed.

Biggest adjustment, will just be getting reacquainted once again, after so long apart, paying to run to house holds, has been a bit tough, but still surviving although it didn't leave any room for a travel budget to go to the Phil's myself and at least visit. And in some ways, that is good and bad, good being didn't have to go through another tear filled good bye. Bad, well the bad of not seeing your mate for so long should be obvious to any one reading these forums.

I think one of the biggest adjustments for my poor wife will be the 40 or boxes of modeling gear and equipment, I have packed away just waiting for the next place we move into, her s**ting a brick may not be completely out of the question

I do look forward to finally seeing that damned DM, on ecas, and putting this whole journey (for lack of a better term) behind us, and getting on with life. Being a family, with all the trials and tribulations that brings with it.

I will agree with CJG, these forums, as much help and fellowship as they have provided will be less visited as time goes on, a natural cycle I would think for those of us stuck here right now. Soon there there will be new people with new questions, and all of the names that have become familiar over the last while, will be out enjoying and experiencing life, instead of waiting on some beauracrats permission to actually live it.

That is probably the one thing that makes this forum so unique, is that it is a living thing, that takes in the new and releases the old. Unlike other forums that get weighed down, with long time members, and forms cliques. It is odd to consider a virtual thing, as something alive, but this place is as probably as close as well get, until the day of A.I. That has the capability to reproduce.

 

[Dan_from_Surrey]

P.S

Don't mind the typos, I am doing this from my iPhone while enjoy coffee outside at a local shop on a beautiful left coast morning. Probably rain tomorrow knowing this place

 

[CanadianJeepGuy]

Well said, I know me wife and I (especially I) will have some very big changes and challenges when they finally arrive. For me, having a third set of little footsteps around with her(our) son is going to be a huge change for me, and already I have been read the riot act, for buying to many toys and goodies for his imminent arrival (really, a kid can have to many toys? Apperantly so as I have been informed.

Biggest adjustment, will just be getting reacquainted once again, after so long apart, paying to run to house holds, has been a bit tough, but still surviving although it didn't leave any room for a travel budget to go to the Phil's myself and at least visit. And in some ways, that is good and bad, good being didn't have to go through another tear filled good bye. Bad, well the bad of not seeing your mate for so long should be obvious to any one reading these forums.

I think one of the biggest adjustments for my poor wife will be the 40 or boxes of modeling gear and equipment, I have packed away just waiting for the next place we move into, her s**ting a brick may not be completely out of the question

I do look forward to finally seeing that damned DM, on ecas, and putting this whole journey (for lack of a better term) behind us, and getting on with life. Being a family, with all the trials and tribulations that brings with it.

I will agree with CJG, these forums, as much help and fellowship as they have provided will be less visited as time goes on, a natural cycle I would think for those of us stuck here right now. Soon there there will be new people with new questions, and all of the names that have become familiar over the last while, will be out enjoying and experiencing life, instead of waiting on some beauracrats permission to actually live it.

That is probably the one thing that makes this forum so unique, is that it is a living thing, that takes in the new and releases the old. Unlike other forums that get weighed down, with long time members, and forms cliques. It is odd to consider a virtual thing, as something alive, but this place is as probably as close as well get, until the day of A.I. That has the capability to reproduce.

Spelling doesn't count in all things immigration.......


Very well said Dan. Looking at this forum as a living thing is really the best way of looking at it. Enjoy your coffee. The Missus and I are off to a Filipino buffet!!!!

 

[Tagum-N.B.]

Spelling doesn't count in all things immigration.......


Very well said Dan. Looking at this forum as a living thing is really the best way of looking at it. Enjoy your coffee. The Missus and I are off to a Filipino buffet!!!!

well I hope we get rain tonight,,,,its been a scorcher here for 3 or 4 days,,,,,,,i hope to soon complete this hell of a journey,,,,,,there is no other word that you say that explains what this process all about,,,,,,so secretive and no communications between someone who is working for you,,,,its totally foolish the way they do it,,,,,,,i got to go watch the young fellow up swimmi9ng at the pond,,,,the water there is about 6 degrees,,,,but its only about 30 outside this afternoon,,,cooling down

 

[GoonerClank]

Its a very strange transition when you have spent the bulk of your relationship time through the internet and then have to actually do real things in real time with your real life partner. The computer to which your whole life was wrapped around now just gets opened less and less each day. This is a good thing of course but I still feel a loyalty debt to this forum. Maybe as time passes and the names here become less familiar I will just stop altogether. Unfortunately now I have to hang around to see how Goonerclank makes out.

Sorry guys I was out if wifi zones..

Thanks CJG... But don't miss time with your wife to see my status. I will get to the finish line, just a matter of when.

I really want to see Tagum and Dan get theirs soon. Glad to see things are still moving at CEM.

 

[GoonerClank]

There is a certain amount of adjustment to this new life. I was pretty stressed out about the whole thing and how it would be resolved. I have had no expectations of my wife and just given her all the room she needs to make our house her home. We explore the city/province together and pretty much do everything together expressing how we see things, what makes sense from our own perspectives, where we would agree and disagree on things. Its almost the same approach that we had getting to know each online but now we do it with all the small things.

Every day just gets better and easier.

Nicely said CJG ... I can't wait for my wife to experience Canada, and I get to see it through her eyes.

 

[GoonerClank]

Well said, I know me wife and I (especially I) will have some very big changes and challenges when they finally arrive. For me, having a third set of little footsteps around with her(our) son is going to be a huge change for me, and already I have been read the riot act, for buying to many toys and goodies for his imminent arrival (really, a kid can have to many toys? Apperantly so as I have been informed.

Biggest adjustment, will just be getting reacquainted once again, after so long apart, paying to run to house holds, has been a bit tough, but still surviving although it didn't leave any room for a travel budget to go to the Phil's myself and at least visit. And in some ways, that is good and bad, good being didn't have to go through another tear filled good bye. Bad, well the bad of not seeing your mate for so long should be obvious to any one reading these forums.

I think one of the biggest adjustments for my poor wife will be the 40 or boxes of modeling gear and equipment, I have packed away just waiting for the next place we move into, her s**ting a brick may not be completely out of the question

I do look forward to finally seeing that damned DM, on ecas, and putting this whole journey (for lack of a better term) behind us, and getting on with life. Being a family, with all the trials and tribulations that brings with it.

I will agree with CJG, these forums, as much help and fellowship as they have provided will be less visited as time goes on, a natural cycle I would think for those of us stuck here right now. Soon there there will be new people with new questions, and all of the names that have become familiar over the last while, will be out enjoying and experiencing life, instead of waiting on some beauracrats permission to actually live it.

That is probably the one thing that makes this forum so unique, is that it is a living thing, that takes in the new and releases the old. Unlike other forums that get weighed down, with long time members, and forms cliques. It is odd to consider a virtual thing, as something alive, but this place is as probably as close as well get, until the day of A.I. That has the capability to reproduce.

Wow Dan, I could not say it better... What is in you coffee? You should sell it

 

[GoonerClank]

well I hope we get rain tonight,,,,its been a scorcher here for 3 or 4 days,,,,,,,i hope to soon complete this hell of a journey,,,,,,there is no other word that you say that explains what this process all about,,,,,,so secretive and no communications between someone who is working for you,,,,its totally foolish the way they do it,,,,,,,i got to go watch the young fellow up swimmi9ng at the pond,,,,the water there is about 6 degrees,,,,but its only about 30 outside this afternoon,,,cooling down

Rain is on the way.. We are having lots here in Ontario

Don't worry Tagum your time will come.

 

[Dan_from_Surrey]

Wow Dan, I could not say it better... What is in you coffee? You should sell it

Esquires salted caramel latte'

 

[Rosey_L]

It may sound dumb and all, but can we fold the COPR? It would not fit in my long file case/folder/envelope and I was thinking of folding it a little to secure it inside and to avoid crease on the sides.

 

[CanadianJeepGuy]

I may sound dumb and all, but can we fold the COPR? It would not fit in my long file case/folder/envelope and I was thinking of folding it a little to secure it inside and to avoid crease on the sides.

Yes you can fold it.