ON THE LIGHTER SIDE: Paranoia during the "wait"

[gsize]

trust me, it could be a whole lot worse.

I have been fighting with them for 4 years.

 

[QuebecOkie]

They secretly know who won the War of 1812....... heh heh.

(It was no one.)

Wait...Canada didn't kick U.S. butt? ;D My brother-in-law got me a book on the War of 1812 for Christmas. Said if I was going to be living here, I needed to know about the time Canada whooped our butts.

 

[amikety]

Wait...Canada didn't kick U.S. butt? ;D My brother-in-law got me a book on the War of 1812 for Christmas. Said if I was going to be living here, I needed to know about the time Canada whooped our butts.

No, it was a draw. I think Canada has this delusional they won because they did't lose anything. Which is a victory, I guess.

My husband goes: "We burnt down the White House!"

My reply: "We needed that. It was gray. We built an actual white one afterwards."

Now, if they had a moose riding contest, then Canada would totally whip the US.

 

[zenn]

Canada DID whoop US's butt!! True story

 

[amikety]

Canada DID whoop US's butt!! True story

Too bad Canada didn't exist back then

 

[QuebecOkie]

I've quit arguing with the brother-in-law that the Canadian side didn't win. (He LOVES to torment me...his favourite bit is telling me how ravenous and terrifying the wolves are up here in the Saguenay!) Now I argue that the northerners might have won, but there was no such thing as Canada at the time. Now the question is...is the 'Murican winning this argument, or the fine young Canadian officer, haha! (One never "wins" an argument with my brother-in-law. One may postpone or stop arguing, but one never "wins.")

While I'm stressed about the mistakes I've made and not being able to see my family or my friends back in the U.S. until this is all over, I'm a very, very lucky girl to have gained an amazing Canadian family when I married my husband. My "Canadian parents" are down in Ontario, and they're so warm and supportive.

(HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! amikety beat me to it while I was typing this post!)

 

[amikety]

My father-in-law is 8 hours away in BC I love going to visit him.

In all seriousness, the majority of historians determined the war was a draw. No one lost territory and no one gained territory. But it wasn't a war between the US and Canada. It was a war between the US and Britain. There were some hard feelings between the two after that whole War for Indepedence that the US won the century previous.

Which Canada can thank us for. We taught the British a lesson, so when Canada wanted to be independant, the British knew better than to fight (Okay, that last part is totally made up!)

 

[CanadianJeepGuy]

The goal was to annex the British colonies of Upper and Lower Canada and make it American territory as part of their philosophy of manifest destiny. They never succeeded so they lost. There was Upper and Lower Canada and their own parliment so the Empire Loyalists were actually Canadians.

 

[QuebecOkie]

The husband likes to say that the 'Muricans fought a bloody and costly war...whereas "we Canadians just waited nearly a century and then asked politely to be excused." I used to always tease him, when we lived in Oklahoma, about being a "dirty furrinner" (foreigner, in Okie-speak). How the tables have turned. Now *I* am the dirty foreigner! As I like to say, "twice removed" (once removed from the US living in Canada, once removed from Canada living in Québec!).

 

[amikety]

The goal was to annex the British colonies of Upper and Lower Canada and make it American territory as part of their philosophy of manifest destiny. They never succeeded so they lost. There was Upper and Lower Canada and their own parliment so the Empire Loyalists were actually Canadians.

The British also tried to invade the US, made it all the way to Washington D. C. They failed to take any territory permanently. That's why it's a stalemate.

Manifest Destiny was one of the worst programs in US history. My opinion of that has nothing to do with Canada though.

 

[zenn]

My father-in-law is 8 hours away in BC I love going to visit him.

In all seriousness, the majority of historians determined the war was a draw. No one lost territory and no one gained territory. But it wasn't a war between the US and Canada. It was a war between the US and Britain. There were some hard feelings between the two after that whole War for Indepedence that the US won the century previous.

Which Canada can thank us for. We taught the British a lesson, so when Canada wanted to be independant, the British knew better than to fight (Okay, that last part is totally made up!)

Haha right! Spoken like a true American

 

[zenn]

The husband likes to say that the 'Muricans fought a bloody and costly war...whereas "we Canadians just waited nearly a century and then asked politely to be excused." I used to always tease him, when we lived in Oklahoma, about being a "dirty furrinner" (foreigner, in Okie-speak). How the tables have turned. Now *I* am the dirty foreigner! As I like to say, "twice removed" (once removed from the US living in Canada, once removed from Canada living in Québec!).

Awesome!! and very true...
For the longesssst time I complained about the weather in Canada.. Refused to go there to study because I couldn't fathom living in the cold.... And THEN I found a husband who's Canadian!! *lifes like that*

 

[amikety]

Awesome!! and very true...
For the longesssst time I complained about the weather in Canada.. Refused to go there to study because I couldn't fathom living in the cold.... And THEN I found a husband who's Canadian!! *lifes like that*

I lived in Ohio for most of my life, four hours south of the Ontario border. It feels colder there than it does in Calgary most of the time because it was very moist/humid in Ohio.

Then I lived in Atlanta for 9 years.

Now I'm in Calgary. I want Atlanta back. It snowed three times the entire nine years I lived there....... and by snow, I mean we got 2cm max.

 

[ready_fi_move_on]

good afternoon
i was reading this thread and i gotta say yall made me laugh
great thread by the way
i can relate to so much that was said here about being paranoid .... especially the comments about reading how much others had sent in and thinking that my file would be rejected due to lack of evidence
thank god that was not the case my hubby landed in December. But i must say that through the whole period of application i was a royal wreck....i second guessed everything…
I most of my paranoia was due to the fact that I had to apply twice the first time I applied I was clueless to the whole immigration process did not even know that you could track things online …. When I sent in my first application I waited 5 months without getting and aor then finally I talked to a friend who told me that was not normal and I should contact cic when I did contact them only to get the word that they received my file and that shortly after I contacted them and cancelled my sponsorship well let me tell you I was beside myself as I DID NOT do that …. So I got in contact with a lawyer friend he advised me to re-file my application and send a letter with it that I applied before and that I never cancelled my application…..non the less he helped me a great deal he called cic on my behalf and after many many months it was resolved that my file was actually miss placed in Mississauga…at the time of my second application it was march of 2013 and boy let me tell you that was when there was 100+ days wait for 1st stage approval I was a wreck every passing day thinking that the same faith had reached me luckily someone directed to this forum and I linked up with the Kingston thread…. The ladies and gents there were wonderful ( I am sure they were sick of me with all the questions I had, and the complains I made) …. Then once my application was sent to the vo in Kingston I went 3 months with hearing a word from them … I sent emails upon emails and nothing …then I contacted my mp the same day my mp got back to me we received a phone call that hubby had to go for an interview (more paranoia more stress …level raised to 199%.....the ladies on the forum were real helpful in calming me and helping me prepare hubby for the interview but boy I tell you I was a wreck….. interview went ok a month later hubby got ppr …finally done stress dropped YEAH RIGHT with my luck I DON’T THINK SOO….few days after my hubby got sent in his passport he gets a phone call from Kingston the lady on the phone tells him that they received an anonymous letter telling them that we lied on our application had his police report altered because hubby had served 3 years in jail…..LIKE WTF really are you kidding me my husband has not gotten so much as speeding ticket….TOTAL NERVOUS BREAK DOWN COMES ON …to the point where my boss had to drive me home from work because I was crying so much and in such a bad state …. The next day the vo who was working on our file calls my phone …when I heard who was on the phone I started the tears again I mean who ever hears of the vo calling the sponsor right …so of course it has to be REALLY BAD ….she was calling however to inform me that they have to investigate the letter they received (however she did not think anything would come of it as the information they provided did not add up…. For one my hubby was working during the time they said he was in jail …second he was school during the time and had he had documentation to prove that and finally my step daughter was conceived during the time period he was supposedly in jail and in Jamaica there is no such thing as trailer visits when you in jail and we had DNA test done so that proved it for us……thank the lord it only took them literally less than a week to investigate and grant him the visa ….once he had visa in hand we kept that information limited hardly anyone knew he was leaving …. He was on the plane with in a few days I did not breath until I saw the two of them step off the plane…..

Sorry for the long entry ….. I hope I did not scare anyone with my tale

 

[MissDominica]

And it's just horrible to see people in my social circle change jobs, get promotions, start business school, have babies, move into bigger homes when I'm sitting here staring intently at ECAS.

This has got to be the lowest period of time in my life.

100% agree.