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Australia, what?
So Patrick and I have been in Australia for almost 6 months now. We came on working holiday visas and it took a few months but Patrick eventually found a job in Planning and we moved from Melbourne (awesome city) to Cobram, Victoria. Its very small (6,000 people) but its quite peaceful. I am still going into the city to work on the weekends so ( Read more... ) -
the long overdue update
So here's the highlights of the last year ( Read more... ) -
the costs of immigrating to Canada
Here I'm just going to keep a total of fees as they come along ( Read more... ) -
updated wahooo.
So the letter Canada sent to us explained that both the Québec selection bit AND the rest of the application process is done concurrently. So no having to wait for one to get finished first-yay. And according to their website, the Québec government is legally required to make a decision in 20 business days---super fast ( Read more... ) -
yayyyyyyyyy
wahoo! My immigration application is finally in motion ( Read more... ) -
immigration processing...
so once a week, Canada updates its website with the current timelines for processing the first stage of the application.
as of February 22, they were processing applications up to January 26th, with a 38 day waiting period.
then something happened, because:
as of March 1st, they were only processing applications up to January 7th with a 64 day ( Read more... ) -
immigration update and others.
A big-ish update ( Read more... ) -
clay (aka argile en Français)
So today I went in and started working in clay for the first time in over a year. It was so nice--lovely and tactile, everything that I had missed about ceramics. And if you read my tl;dr post a few days ago, I was worried that I was going to have to buy crappy expensive new red clay (layman's term) for 25 dollars a bag (and only 25 pounds in a ( Read more... ) -
haircutting lols
so Patrick got out the clippers today and cut his hair pretty short, like the width of your pinkie short. He asked me to clean up the back, but I saw all these long hairs at the nape so I just went at it, not realising that he had already taken the guard offyup. Classic haircutting mistake ( Read more... ) -
oh neglected LJ...
I, like many of you, have been very neglectful of LJ for quite awhile. Facebook did it for me, plus getting older and not feeling like sharing *everything* to the world like I used to. But it is still quite a valid medium for memories and I'm going to try to start posting more often ( Read more... )