FINALLY!

Yes, finally, the application for permanent residence is in the mail. Now all we have to do is wait and wait some more! Shouldn't take more than a month for them to approve Chris as a sponsor, a few weeks of the application sitting on a desk in London, and then about two to four months before I get approved... Hopefully.... Hmmm... So we're looking at maybe February? Geez. Well at least now it's no longer in our hands.

It took me forever to get it sent off today, I went to Staples to do copies and send it, but as I had copied and organized everything I noticed I'd forgotten the pictures at home. So I biked off home, ate lunch, worked on my translations a bit, and biked back to Staples to buy a box and send it via Purolator. However the box I bought was too small (so I got a big envelope), and the lady who was gonna send it was operating a computer for the first time in her life (or so it seemed, at least she told me she'd never done Purolator before) and she pushed the keys of the computer keyboard one at a time with one finger, doing capital letters by clicking caps lock and then unclicking caps lock. It took forever. And when it was finally done, another woman came up (who was more knowing) and said they don't ship to PO Boxes.

So then I called the immigration hotline to make sure I had the right address, and apparently I didn't! Very good luck that I went there and tried them, or the package would have gotten a little lost. Yikes. But the right address was also a PO Box, which meant I had to bike off to a real post office and send it off from there.

Phew! Now I'm home and own about six huge envelopes I have no use for (they only sold them in bundles), and I need to get some work done. We're heading out to a party tonight which will rid all this clutter from my mind.

Tomorrow I need to be at Extreme Fitness at 1.30 for my introduction to the free month..