Immigration Update and More

Two weeks into the year, and already it seems like so much has happened. The day after writing my last post I received my notice from US Immigration that my interview will be on February 3^rd in Louisville, KY. For those of you who do not know where Louisville is, it is about an hour and a half southwest of the Cincinnati Area. Aaron and I will more than likely go down the night before, as I do not want to chance something happening on the roads the morning of and missing our appointment. Not sure what to really expect with the interview. The notice provides a list of things to bring, so the last couple weeks I have been organizing all our information that we submitted into piles of originals versus copies. I also have been going through pictures and pulling out all the ones that I can give to them if needed. I am going to assume that my next post will probably be after we have gone for the interview.

Just over a week ago a group of us were supposed to go to Turfway Park to watch the horse races, but they were cancelled due to the weather. It was pretty cold here, and I figured they would cancel them for the safety of the horses. I still can’t get over going to the horse races in the middle of winter. One of my favourite things to do at home, and I pretty much can do it year around in Kentucky/Ohio. Many of my childhood memories were spent at the track, and being at any of them makes me think of my Grandma J.

I had a pretty rough day at work on Tuesday. I realized a mistake that I had made that cost a few employees some money, and I felt absolutely horrible about this. I was so bothered by what I had discovered that I decided I needed to go to broomball that night. Well, after months of me saying I was not going to be playing this year, I ended up playing, and loving it like before. I was pretty cautious after breaking my hand last year. Thankfully the goon who broke it is no longer playing. I went out and bought lacrosse gloves that afternoon for Aaron, and ended up wearing them myself. Looking forward to the next 9 weeks of playing. 

Last Wednesday we went to the Cyclones hockey game, and what a game it was! For those of you on Facebook, you would have saw my post, but I wanted to touch on it today. That game was the most intense and crazy hockey game I have ever been to. I have been to my fair share of hockey games through the years, and that was the best. I hate to say that, but it was pretty epic. A goalie fight! Never in a million years did I ever think that I would get to see that in a hockey game. It was not much of a fight as our goalie went down after one hit, but I did find out later that the opposing teams goalie specializes in martial arts. He meant business. All the videos I have watched, I have to say that I was impressed that the opposing goalie had a heart at the end of it and was concerned for our goalie. Rumour I heard was that the opposing goalie tried asking one of our ice girls how our goalie was doing, and she declined to answer him. I have not heard anything further on how either one of them are doing or if there were any fines or suspensions. I would be surprised if there weren’t any.

Thursday I was able to help my friend Brittany make some cookies for an order she had received, as she has started to sell decorated cookies and chocolates. I believe it was for 5 dozen, and they were 50s themed. They were pretty fun to do. Then, I received a text from her yesterday morning that she had received a few more orders….8 dozen to be exact, and they needed them for today! I went over to help her for a few hours, and we were able to get a couple dozen done, then she was off to a baby shower. I wish I could have kept working on them, as it is something I love to do. Not many probably know this, but I took cookie decorating classes a few years ago (actually taught Brittany some of the techniques). Due to time with school I have not been able to do what she has now started – a home business. My goal is still to do this, and I have some big plans. Some might remember when I took cake decorating classes way back when, and I am getting back into that as well. Just one more semester of school left, and then I can make baking more my focus. I have so many hobbies and plans that I have started questioning all of them the last couple of weeks. Have to decide how much time I want to devote to each of them, and money. All three of my hobbies seem to be pretty expensive.

I made these for a pampered chef party.

Doing some experimenting for Valentine's Day. 

Some of the cookies Brittany and I have made.

Aaron was in Nashville all weekend for a fraternity meeting. I had a very productive weekend at home. Got all the laundry done, a week’s worth of dishes washed, cleaned up the house, read for school, helped Brittany, sorted through pictures, and prepped my meals for this week. I still have a whole afternoon and evening ahead of me, this is great!! Guess it is time for me to watch a movie. Until next time…have a great week!