Reminder to self: huge deep breaths

[theatokos]

I'm all nervous and freaked out. I've just applied online for my visa and Bennett's visa. There are so many hoops to jump through. We must apply online but still print it all out and then send it in with all sorts of supplementary info and pictures and documents. Eep. I can feel my nervous system shake and twitch. The decaf latte may as well have been full strength.

Pleasepleaseplease let everything go through. God I'm a wreck. It sucks to have to do this the week we are packing to leave.

I feel like I'm about to lose it, but I know everything will get done. It will because it has to. Poor Bennett. He's a little neglected these days, though we are trying our best to give him ample play time. But, like the cats, he sense the change - the stress, the weird people coming in and out of our apartment as items get sold, the disappearing furniture, the mess, etc. I don't blame him for being clingy. I feel that way too.

Today the tv went away. Tomorrow the coffee table and piano go. Must get more boxes.

Comments

[bloodfever.livejournal.com]

It *will* all get done, but that doesn't negate any of the stress.

It'll all be over soon :)

[bravenewcentury.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

A lovely picture of Wales, for inspiration?

YAY!

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

OMG YES.

The visa hoops are mind boggling. And I'm an advanced English speaker. I don't know how the less educated or non-native speakers do it. The forms themselves aren't hard, it's all the information around it. 0_o

FINGERS CROSSED.

Fingers crossed that 1)we get approved and 2)my adviser doesn't lose her job.

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's amazingly beautiful!

[calizen.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous!

[so-sporktastic.livejournal.com]

Good vibes and thoughts for the family, love. :)

[lopezuna.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the visas. Are you applying in LA? Sorry to have to say this, but it makes sense to keep on their tail about it a bit. My husband needs a visa for basically every country on the planet, and he had one bad experience with the British consulate in LA. It involved me having a screaming argument with some bureaucrat on the phone before they would find his passport from the wrong pile where somebody had dumped it.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

No, it's all online and then you mail in a stack of documents and forms. BAH. My adviser has told me that she has never heard of a student from "white" countries (NZ, AUS, CAN, USA) getting grief from the visa process. That is both relieving and disturbing.

[bravenewcentury.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we only hate the brown foreigners over here.

</years of built-up political annoyance>

[calizen.livejournal.com]

Nothing worse than wanting something badly, doing everything you can to get it, and then waiting for the unnamed/unknown forces of bureaucracy to say yay or nay. Sending good thoughts to you.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

Absolutely the "completely out of my hands" aspect of all of this is the hardest part to take!