Update.. shmup-date

Ok.. so it's been a rough week. Last week our bird Chester was not doing well. He wasn't chirping like he normally does and we took him to the Vet on Thursday. He was not happy! They took a culture from his throat(no results yet) and gave us antibiotics to give to him. He seems much better. Still can't do some of his normal chirp noises clearly.. but he is at least eating more now and much more like his normal rambunctious self. Me.. I was a mess. Geez if I am this way with a bird.. what am I gonna do when I have a little girl?!?! Things to think and pray about. I'm just so glad he is better and neither of the other two birdies got sick. I don't know what I'd do if anything were to happen to any of them.

Ok.. adoption update... We have our Social Worker coming over next Monday night.. She seems like a really fun person! So it should go well. We got our employment verifications(well a copy) from Disney on Friday and they didn't look correct. They put how much we earn per hour/week then how much we've earned YTD.. NO NO NO.. I needed an estimated yearly salary!! ARGH>> freakin' Disney sometimes. Luckily I have a contact and I IM'd her yesterday and she got with the person who did our letter. And at first they wouldn't put an estimate on it. The reason I was given.. that Disney doesn't like to do that.. because they don't want to put a number that a cast member might not make and folks might get all up in arms or whatever.. oh please... just put ESTIMATED on the letter!! I explained that any other number would literally get lost in the translation when our stuff would be translated into Chinese!!! Sooo... my friend asked again and the person agreed to write the letters as requested.. hopefully we'll get them by next week. Figures.. Disney gives us crap.

Ok.. I called sick on Monday.. NOTE to SELF.. do not eat Egg-salad sandwiches made by little old church ladies.. yes it was not fun : ( Coincidentally I had my follow-up appt on Monday with the doc to get my lab results and my Medical Exam form for the Dossier... HEY.. my Cholesterol is only 122!!! how cool is that.. then he ratted off some other numbers.. I asked what do they all mean. He said.. well you are not at risk for Heart Disease. good I thought.. Then I said.. so I take it, you don't see numbers like that often.. He said.. only when someone is on Cholesterol medication! How cool is that!!! Seems like eating all this good food pays off!!! yippee! And all the other stuff was good too! iron was good, no anemia, no Hepatitis, my liver is working, kidneys.. all that stuff. David goes for his next Tuesday, July 3rd.. on my birthday!!! I'll be working.. that's ok. Maybe they'll take me out to lunch!

Well dinner is ready and I'm hungry.

Bye for now
~Donna

Holy Cow!!

We are talking a major "moo" here. I got my passport back already!!!!! It came in yesterday's mail!! I am still so surprised that I got it especially after hearing on the news about how long it's taking for everyone and all that. I did send in the extra $$$ to have it expidited but as I'm sure you all heard on the news lately I was not optimistic!! I think the reason mine came so quickly (I mailed it June 5 and got it June 16) is because it was just a renewal and not an original application. It's gotta be. I was hoping for the new E-pass port. check it out here on the Sec of State site. http://travel.state.gov/passport/eppt/epptnew_2807.html Seems only the Colorado office is issuing them. Totally cool! I got the old design, oh well.. I'm just so happy I got it that it's okay!

Oh yesterday we went to the Salvation Army to look around. Wow good deals! Saw some dressers and bedroom sets that had promise! With some paint and new knobs we could've done well! But we aren't ready for that stuff yet, just looking around for ideas right now. We made a pack to not buy anything big until the Dossier is in China. We did get some children's books for 99 cents & 49 cents! what a bargin!

Dang it's Sunday already.. weekends are just too short

Have a great week!

~Donna

Yippeee!

Holy cow! I got my stuff from the State of NY today!! I can't believe it .. it only took a week! We got our Marriage license stuff from Florida last Friday! Wahoo. now we have to send them to the Chinese Consulate for Authentication..funfun. The folks from our agency are out of town celebrating the 15yr anniversary of the company! I'll have to call them on Monday..and find out what other docs need all those steps. Just getting a bit confused.. there is so much to put together for the Dossier.

Not much else going on.. just work work work. I did my blood work this week and I'll remind David to do his.. so it's just moving along!

This will be a short post.. just been a long week and I am very tired.

Later
~Donna

GOT ONE!!

I LOVE the state of Georgia! Mostly because that is were David is from and his family is there (and now my folks) but also because we are all done with his birth certificate certification!! How easy!! It was very cool and official with the Seal of the State and nifty language like..."Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State at the Capitol in Atlanta, this, the fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and Seven and of the Independence of the United States of America, the Two Hundred and Thirty-First." >>Isn't that cool!! ok so I'm a geek! In my job and such I am not exposed to such language. It's about Mickey Mouse and who is scheduled Pooh and stuff like that!!

Ok now New York...ok first I really dislike the Yankees.. but besides that.. It was determined that I had to send my BC to be certified by the County I was born in before I could send it to the Sec of State. Well I got it back from the county this week with a note stating that I didn't need it done because the signature I had on my BC was enough.. ARGGH!!! So I sent it off to the Sec of State for NY.. let's see how long that takes.. tick tock.

We got our appts for our Fingerprinting for our 600A/171H thingy. It's August 1st at 11am in Tampa!! yikes! So the first thing I did was grab the Devil Rays schedule off the fridge and WAHOO they have a day game at 3pm that day!! So the drive to Tampa isn't wasted! Well even if there wasn't a day game I think we'd just go to the beach or something. It's great to live in Florida!

Let's see.. we had our physicals this week and got the big list of lab stuff we'll need to get done. So one day next week we'll have to fast and head off to a lab in the morning so they can take blood and pee and all sorts of fun stuff like that. I also had my OB appt this week and now I'm at the age where I have to get a mamogram.. : ( isn't getting older fun?!?! Then next week I have my dental appt. Ya see this will be the first time I'll have someone else take care of my teeth that's not my mom!! Dang her and her retirement.. what was she thinking?!? Ha ha... just kidding Mom!! Just know that no one will ever measure up to your work!

Oh... We should see our Marriage license from the Sec of State in FL soon.. Then let's hope NY isn't too far behind. Then I'll be sending my BC out to the Chinese Consulate right after. Each Chinese Consulate is over a region and I only have one doc for the one in NY to authenticate.. which happens to be in NY. But the rest of our stuff will go the the Houston one for our FL & GA documents. Isn't this FUN?!?!?!?

Have a great week! We will now that it's started to rain here..whew.. dang it was getting a bit scary with all the fires.. we got another 1.5" yesterday.. and some VERY close lightening! yikes!

Later. ~Donna