since getting visa

Posted on Sun 22 April 2007 at 08:03 - 0 Comments - Link

well should have posted this about month ago but only just got round to it. so we got our 136 visa mid march......yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. tbh still getting used to the idea, you wait for it for so long, checking emails every day 20 times a day and then all of a sudden you dont have to, strange but true. so still trying to sell house because once we get rid of it  we will be on that plane like you wouldnt believe. so had a few  more viewings and  the two over wkend were very postitive but you just can never tell can you.

 so to get away from it all took kids to beach today, i stupidly dressed like i was going to the tropics and therefore sat on the beach freezing me t**ts of with a towel round me whilst boys and hubby are oblivious to the cold, making me look like right whinging mere. steve then reminded me that its still only april, yeah that went down well!  we hired a boot out on the lake nearby, steve being manly said he was rowing, so me and kids sat and watched, anyway steve then starts trying to row like he's in the cambridge/oxford boat race, oars come out of holders he falls backwards and lost an oar over board, telling you havent laughed so much in ages, very entertaining for people on bank aswell! ended up getting to bank with one oar then waiting for the wind to blow the second oar over to us....................................um, a little while later we're of again, this time in the capable hands of....................me!  anyway all in all a good day out back to trying to sell house again tomorrow.

bye for now

tracey x

waiting..................

Posted on Sun 11 March 2007 at 07:05 - 0 Comments - Link

Well as the title says we're still waiting for our 136 visa, i think i'm going mad. The first thing i do when getting up is to check emails, but i do it in secret. hubby already thinks i've lost it and this laptop is permantly attached to me. i know that we havent waited nearly as long as others for a reply once meds have been sent but honestly i just want an answer pleaasssssssssssssse. as much as i try to carry on as normal, i just cant i feel like i'm in limbo. steve's so laid back he's practicaly horizontal so i do enough worring for the both of us

any way this week had 2 really postitive viewings on house, but both have properties to sell so wont put in offers yet. we do already have a buyer whoose offer we've excepted but yet again hes got a property to sell aswell. where's a cash buyer when needed! only had positive feedback from viewings but did i have to bite my tongue last week. ok couple knock on door, open door ( straight away i know its a waste of time) enter couple, she does'nt say a word, not even hello! he then proceeds to touch everything and i mean everything. he's slightly obsessed with electric sockets, to the point that if he asked one more time how many of each in each room i was going to stick his fingers in the nearest one. telephone lines was the next thing (please just GO AWAY) . all this and they come at 7.00pm and then have the cheek to complain that they cant see the garden!!!!!!!!arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. anyway not surprised to hear feedback from agents is that "it just wasnt right for them".

just to top the week of, steve opens post yesterday to find a speeding fine (oopppppps that would be me then) now i've been driving for 14 yrs and never had one or any point s on licence so a bit gutted. i blamed it entirely on the radio, i was giggling at the time to the chris moyles show and hadnt relised i had entered a 50 zone and was doing 63. bugger!. steve offered to take the rap but i said this was my doing and i would have the points. all this in the hope that when i get to oz they'll give me a shinny new one with no points, so am i bovered.

just another blip in the cooks life.

my first blog

Posted on Sat 20 January 2007 at 03:53 - 0 Comments - Link

well after a few months of posting on BE i finally decided to start a blog!

our family consists of me (tracey33), hubby(steve34), ben 6 and luis 3 and lots of maddess

we started this journey may 2006, steve came home on day and said lets move to aus, well at the beg i though he's joking (although i should have known he wasnt as moving to aus has always been a dream of his) after lots of pro and cons discussions we decided to start on the mad adventure. we decided not to use agent ( lots of help on BE) . was sort of left upto me as paperwork as not one of steves strong points. passed tra, cant tell you how happy we were to have got over the first hurdle. onto the main app, the night before it was due to be collected by courier steve got admitted to hospital so was checking and signing app whilst nurse hooking him upto a drip! such fun.  so that was august 2006, app rec by dimia 4th sept. done police checks and meds are booked for 2nd feb. 

so here we are at this point, waiting waiting and more waiting. i was never a paitient person and this is agony. i've had so many what if's along the way its been unbelievable but not once have we questioned what we're doing. so lets just hope all is right with the app!!

well i think i've rambled enough for one day.  i'm sure the next eposides not far off 

good luck to everyone. 

x