Changed da house,
Changed da look.
BTW, my bathrobe's usually pink
and we don't have a fireplace.
Other than that,
it's pretty accurate...
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Saturday, January 15, 2005
~ Mrs Velle, Hot and Bothered ~
Nothing like a change in the weather to test the honeymoon bubble.
Tony and I are avoiding the malls today, because huge families and their grandmas and screaming kids gravitate to them in droves. If the oppressive dry heat is already a moodkiller for most things (we don't even feel like playing computer games, can you imagine...), we really don't need an earful of screaming kids to remind us why exactly we're putting off child-rearing for a couple of years.
But I digress...
The coming Tuesday marks exactly 1 month since we did the whole shebang. So far, we've done grocery shopping as a household about 4-6 times, polished off 1 tub of ice cream, watched 4 episodes of West Wing and another 4 of CSI. The heat this week has forced us to set up camp downstairs because the bedroom currently traps heat like... I can't even think of a witty simile, is how hot it is right now. We've discovered that there's heaps of stuff we like doing together, and then there's heaps of stuff we're quite happy now to leave the other alone to enjoy.
For one thing, I enjoy blogging and while he's quite happy to read entries after I'm done with them, he's not likely to blog on his own anytime soon.
Then there's Dr Who.
Tony's grown up watching this series I've scarce heard of till he became a part of my life. It was probably the grandfather of Star Wars and Star Trek, but in essense is really a melting pot of bad props, worse make up, and a perpetually screaming damsel in distress. The stuff that television in the 60s was made of - except that formula was perpetuated for 26 seasons.
I hear they're making a comeback in 2005, which may explain why ABC has decided to screen every single episode since it started in 1963 and their space aliens were nothing more than black trashbags trembling like jello. I've watched a couple of episodes with him before - this was when we were still engaged, and I needed to know what I was getting myself into - and I swear I saw the forerunner of R2D2 in one of the 60s episodes. And my darling man needs to watch every single episode.
I admit I don't find the script too rivetting. ("Sheer Poppycock!" That's a direct quote.) I suspect it's got something to do with that part of the brain that's hotwired to be inexplicably drawn to Bold and the Beautiful, and Neighbours.
Anyways, I've rambled enough. The hot weather will do that to you. Here's what I actually wanted to update you guys on:
Immigration
When we popped by Kathy's place on Wednesday evening to pick up her statutory declaration, we were given the low down on her sister's recent immigration experience. Huge parallel - they were filing for a spousal visa as well - and they had gotten a difficult agent by the name of Stella, who insisted that there wasn't enough evidence and was finally "killed with kindness".
We walked into the Immigration interview room on Thursday and got Stella.
Apart from the first 5 minutes explaining why we didn't have a joint lease together on the current rental property, we both felt that it was a pretty straightforward procedure. No separate interviews, no Green Card type questions on what shampoo I use and how often he shaves. I realise that as long as we stuck as close to the checklist that Immigration provided us, the easier it was going to be for us. Such is the nature of the public service, I suppose. Round pegs for round holes, thank you very much.
All we have to do now is submit our tenancy agreement for the new rental place we're moving into next week, and further evidence of cohabitation as husband and wife via shared mail at the new place.
Fingers still crossed.
Photographs
Yes, a couple of you have been asking about that.
I'm presently uploading all the wedding pics I've got thus far onto a few Yahoo! photo accounts. Once that's done, I'll put up an update here and you guys can email me for the passwords etc. And no, I'm not gonna post account names and passwords on this blog.
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