.. thoughts for a day…

I wake in my husbands arms and I am happy…

I set the table for breakfast and call our daughter and I am happy…..

I look around as I clean the breakfast dishes and hear the kid in her room babbling. I see my husband at the TV watching cartoons and I smile and rush to join him. I am happy.

Its noon now and off to the market, family together and I am happy…

Time to make dinner as my husband watches our teen play on the computer..I smile as I set the table.. these are the ‘little things’ of life.

After dinner it’s time to clean, I love this part as I can stand back and watch my family laugh and play… I am happy

Quiet time now and all the lights are out I lay in your arms and I feel alive… I feel a way I have never felt before .. I am beyond happy…I am satisfied with life… I am content

In 5 days we will be married 1 year, seems like forever and yet seems like only yesterday. I know all the years to come will only be better and more fulfilling. I love you so much. Happy Anniversary baby, our first of many more to come!

Weeeeee lots of new things happening. Dmets VISA is taking way too long and even the USCIS can’t say why soooo … Instead I have relocated once again, this time over six thousand miles away.. yup that’s right I have moved myself and my daughter to Europe!. I’m sure you can understand why I haven’t been on to write much lately heh. I’m still in school and still holding a 99 GPA which amazes even me!

So it looks lime i’m the alien now lol. I’ve had some time to get to know his family more and we spent some time with his dad which was really nice for me. We went to a theme park here in Belgium which was lots of fun and we got tons of pic’s ( some he may post later since he’s the smart one!) so it was our first ‘family’ outting his dad even went on a few rides with us even ones where we got ‘kinda’ wet. Ellen got on her very first rollercoaster and I’ll give her credit, the thing was so step on the incline down it went inverted! After that she wanted all the “thriller” ones heh even one called “The Sledgehammer”… I don’t think I have ever screamed so loud in my life! It was scary but we all had a great time.

We finally moved into our first real house together since our marriage a year ago this friday and we are finally getting to live our lives together. We will both be posting more as we go and get caught up on things but for now it’ll be sporadic as we set up our house, celebrate our anniversary and get our lives going, but for now I’m off tho I think I have one more blog in mind for tonight… we’ll see

Beeeeeeep.

DING!

Ehhh… I was really going to type something, but…well… I’m really fucking tired. So this is all you get after 2 fucking months.

Be glad, bitches!

The Contract has Morgan Freeman and John Cusack in it. What’s more, Freeman is a professional hitman. Cusack is this average guy trying to bond with his (rather uncaring) son out in the woods. Everyone’s having a good time until Freeman rolls in, with his “everyone is out to get me” thing going on. Sounds kind of interesting, does it not?

To be honest, I did not expect this movie to be that good at first. It’s just one of those movies you have to go and watch - screw what the back cover of the DVD says (which makes a mockery of the plot). The movie keeps it short, with just 97 minutes of runtime. Sadly, the action wasn’t that flashy, and watching people walk through a forest for 2/3 of the movie isn’t very awesome and eye-catching. The anti-climatic ending is a big downer, so maybe skip that part and make your own one up (although it comes quick due to the short length of the film, so have that finger handy on the stop button!). In fact, skip the beginning as well. Just fast forward to the “action”.

I’m going to slap a 5.0/10 rating on it, but it would have been closer to a 4.0/10 if Freeman and Cusack weren’t there to spice up the film. Sections in the middle of the film really brought this rating up from the dark depths, so you can at least look forward to that.

After tripling our readership from February to March earlier this year I really didn’t expect that to continue. How wrong I was.

Our readership in April was almost double that of the month before, which was already great, but most astonishingly the following months seemed to keep up the trend of increasing our daily visits until June and July actually added another digit to our monthly unique visitors. That’s a crapload of people, God only knows why they come here, but I’m glad they do.

Over the course of the past few months you may have noticed some changes. The layout has changed a bit, we have more reviews (and now even guest movie reviews by Rasputin) and there’s still more coming.

Our very own Kikimaru is still working on her webcomic Grungy Girl, which she herself states is about “nudity, decapitation, self mutilation, bloody, and sad times!”. Maybe if I’m lucky I can get her to put up a small preview panel for all of you.

Remember that you can continue to apply to do guest reviews for us. If you have a plain ‘blogger’ site with reviews but you find your visitor statistics embarrassing we might just have a place for you. We need the reviews, you need the exposure, it’s a win-win situation!

Well it’s been almost 4 months since my VISA application was approved, but so far still nothing has happened; no papers have arrived anywhere and no one, not even the lawyer or the USCIS seem to have a clue as to why I am not in the USA yet.

We have called, written, emailed, called again and again but they’re just telling us the same thing over and over. “If after 30 days of notification you still haven’t gotten your papers, call again and we’ll resend.”. Then, of course, those 30 days pass yet again, and we have to wait yet another 30 days to be disappointed once again.

Obviously something somewhere has gone very very wrong and we are tired of waiting. The lawyer has even told my wife that someone else who applied in march was already there! They can’t figure out why I don’t have my VISA yet. Not like they seem to do a helluva lot to find out either though.

With the help of my dad and other family members we managed to get enough monies to get everything finished on my wife’s end, the bankruptcy and such, to get everything in order to do what we initially planned to do later. To fly them both here for what God willing will be a permanent residence.

Of course this whole ordeal is not without its own set of bumps and hiccups. I’ve tried to register our marriage here months ago but they wouldn’t let me. The local office (where I’m supposed to register) said I had to go to The Hague first but they told me the exact opposite. So that didn’t go anywhere. But now after many calls and inquiries I’ve finally managed to talk to people who actually have some knowledge about this topic.

Apparently it’s a bit more difficult than they first let on. You can’t just simply register, especially if your spouse is wanting to come live with you. We think we got most of it figured out though, and we (well, my wife mostly) have gotten the papers they told us we need to actually get this done. God I really hope there are no more nasty surprises, this is truly killing me deep inside.

Our one year anniversary is coming up very soon and I pray we will be truly together again before then. Right now our projected flight date is august 7th, which is soon, real soon. While I can’t wait and am nervous as hell I still can’t get excited too much until I actually have her in my arms again. I’ve simply been disappointed too many times in a row to start cheering prematurely.

So I guess it’ll be her being the alien, not me. I pray for a happy end.