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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / January 2006Yay, hurray! OT
Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! It has just taken forever and with Dennis being away, I had to do all the paperwork. It all involved countless emails, faxes and phone calls. The money transfer was a nightmare, I was so stressed between Christmas and New Year, I've got a huge outbreak of psoriasis. Hopefully that will clear up now that it's a done deal. Dennis was supposed to be home yesterday, but he's been asked to extend, so now he won't be home until the 14th :-( Couldn't say no to all that overtime pay though. Oh well, at least it's a done deal and I feel proud of myself that I got it all done by myself. I am more than just an expat wife ;-) Huge celebration when Dennis gets home!  SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! It has just > taken forever and with Dennis being away, I had to do all the paperwork. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > it all done by myself. I am more than just an expat wife ;-) > Huge celebration when Dennis gets home! Congratulations! It's a good feeling to know it's all over isn't it? >> Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! It has >> just taken forever and with Dennis being away, I had to do all the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Congratulations! It's a good feeling to know it's all over isn't it? Ooooh yeah! Thanks, Helen :-) I'll probably see you sooner rather than later actually. Getting desperate to get out of here so I'm working on a plan to get over there at the very beginning of April, rather than the end. Cant' wait! SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album >> Congratulations! It's a good feeling to know it's all over isn't it? > > Ooooh yeah! Thanks, Helen :-) I'll probably see you sooner rather than > later actually. Getting desperate to get out of here so I'm working on > a plan to get over there at the very beginning of April, rather than the > end. Cant' wait! Heheh, April the 1st would be an auspicious day... > Oh well, at least it's a done deal and I feel proud of myself that I got > it all done by myself. I am more than just an expat wife ;-) > Huge celebration when Dennis gets home! Congratulations! Purrs for the psoriasis to calm down. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki >> Oh well, at least it's a done deal and I feel proud of myself that I >> got it all done by myself. I am more than just an expat wife ;-) >> Huge celebration when Dennis gets home! > > Congratulations! Purrs for the psoriasis to calm down. Thanks Marina. It's weird, I used to get it in college and also when working but then it went away for the whole time we've been living in Thailand. Not hard to imagine, I haven't been doing anything, so I had no stress! I hope it calms down , but won't hold my breath because the next step is to organize the movers and ship our stuff. Plenty stressful situation. Oh well, at least it's only on my hairline and under my chin. SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album . > Oh well, at least it's a done deal and I feel proud of myself that I got > it all done by myself. I am more than just an expat wife ;-) > Huge celebration when Dennis gets home! Yes, for that it will be nice to have Dennis help! Congrats. A landowner Down Under. Who would have thought ten years ago right? Jo > . >> Oh well, at least it's a done deal and I feel proud of myself that I [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Jo Thanks, Jo. Hee hee! Our real estate agent emailed his congrats for owning a chunk of dirt. Hmmm, it's not dirt, it's our future estate ;-) We plan to leave it all to the cats! Well, when we got married in Australia 10 years ago, we did say we want to move there one day. It's great seeing such a long term plan come together. SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album So glad things are coming together for your new life in Australia. You and Dennis have worked so hard for it. Skin purrs from Spicey. Suz&Spicey > Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! It has just > taken forever and with Dennis being away, I had to do all the paperwork. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > it all done by myself. I am more than just an expat wife ;-) > Huge celebration when Dennis gets home! WoooooooooHoooooooooooo! Onya, mate! Yowie > Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! Hooray!! I hope you can move onto it sooner, rather than later. Congratulations! Joyce >> Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Joyce Thanks Joyce :-) If Dennis keeps getting his tours extended like this, we'll be able to build the house in no time, with all that extra money rolling in. But at some point you have to ask yourself how much seperation is acceptable before it starts to ruin your quality of life, etc. I definitely don't want him extending on every tour. We need to be together more than we're apart, or else it seems more like visits rather than a marriage. SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > at some point you have to ask yourself how much seperation is acceptable > before it starts to ruin your quality of life, etc. I definitely don't > want him extending on every tour. We need to be together more than > we're apart, or else it seems more like visits rather than a marriage. Will this continue after you move to Australia? Will he be working for the same company? Joyce >> at some point you have to ask yourself how much seperation is >> acceptable before it starts to ruin your quality of life, etc. I [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Joyce Yes, he'll still have the same job, doing the same thing. Most of the guys in the company fly in from Canada every 6 weeks, so Dennis is way ahead of the game in the travelling aspect. His job now has 4 week tours instead of the usual 6, which we really like. But who knows how long that will last. There is really no end in sight for this routine until he retires. Maybe he can cut back some and do less tours in 10 years or so. We'll have to see. SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > Huge celebration when Dennis gets home! Congratulations!!! SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com > Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! It has just > taken forever and with Dennis being away, I had to do all the paperwork. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > it all done by myself. I am more than just an expat wife ;-) > Huge celebration when Dennis gets home! Congratulations, Britta! Good job!!! I'm very happy for you - there is nothing like owning your own little corner of the world! Purrs coming for your psoriasis to go away quickly. SignatureHugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ >> Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! It has >> just taken forever and with Dennis being away, I had to do all the [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Purrs coming for your psoriasis to go away quickly. Thanks, Lori :-) Yes, we're very excited, it's our first time owning any land. Owned a condo in Vancouver but that's not really the same. SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album "badwilson" <badSPAMwilson@yahoo.com> wrote in message > Thanks, Lori :-) Yes, we're very excited, it's our first time owning any > land. Owned a condo in Vancouver but that's not really the same. There is just something very solid and satisfying about being a "person of property". I do hope that at least this step will make the time Dennis has to spend away a bit easier on you. It should feel more like being home than being on the edge of nowhere waiting. So, are you going to be looking into work in the wine industry once you get settled? Jo > "badwilson" <badSPAMwilson@yahoo.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Jo Well, I did feel like this was our home here in Thailand, we have been here for such a long time now, you get used to it. But I always felt quite restricted. The heat made it impossible to do many outdoor things, the language barrier was annoying, the traffic was insane and then the snakes and rats in the house kind of put me over the edge ;-) But it will be a nice feeling to get settled because we always knew that we wouldn't be staying here forever. We do plan to stay there forever. I am definitely going to take some wine courses and want to get working in the wineries ASAP. SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! It has just > taken forever and with Dennis being away, I had to do all the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > got it all done by myself. I am more than just an expat wife ;-) > Huge celebration when Dennis gets home! Congratulations, Britta! I'm happy for you. I hope the next nine days go quickly for you, then you can really celebrate. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) A House is not a home, without a cat. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. > Oh well, at least it's a done deal and I feel proud of myself that I > got it all done by myself. I am more than just an expat wife ;-) > Huge celebration when Dennis gets home! Congratulations! I know you're getting very excited about all of this and I'm excited for you :) Jill > Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! It has just > taken forever and with Dennis being away, I had to do all the paperwork. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > it all done by myself. I am more than just an expat wife ;-) > Huge celebration when Dennis gets home! Many congratulations, Britta. Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe > Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! It > has just taken forever and with Dennis being away, I had to do [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > that I got it all done by myself. I am more than just an expat > wife ;-) Huge celebration when Dennis gets home! Congratulations! That's a huge accomplishment to do all by yourself and you *should* feel proud. :) SignatureCheryl >> Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! It >> has just taken forever and with Dennis being away, I had to do [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Congratulations! That's a huge accomplishment to do all by yourself > and you *should* feel proud. :) Thanks, Cheryl and everyone else! I should put up pictures of it so you all can see it. But since my hard drive wipeout, I've lost that uploading program for webshots. I really need to download it again. I'll get on it one of these days... SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > Thanks, Cheryl and everyone else! > I should put up pictures of it so you all can see it. But since my > hard drive wipeout, I've lost that uploading program for webshots. I > really need to download it again. I'll get on it one of these days... I'm confused, when I upload pictures to Webshots I just log on to my account. I don't use an uploading program, I didn't know there was one. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) A House is not a home, without a cat. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >> Thanks, Cheryl and everyone else! >> I should put up pictures of it so you all can see it. But since my [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > account. I don't use an uploading program, I didn't know there was > one. When I first got a webshots account, it got me to download this program. You open it on your desktop and if you're online, you can log in to webshots and see all your albums and edit them, make new albums, upload more pics. It was really great. I guess I'll either just do without or go and look for it again. It's just finding an hour or 2 to download a large file with my slow connection, that's the main problem. SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > When I first got a webshots account, it got me to download this program. > You open it on your desktop and if you're online, you can log in to > webshots and see all your albums and edit them, make new albums, upload > more pics. It was really great. I guess I'll either just do without or > go and look for it again. It's just finding an hour or 2 to download a > large file with my slow connection, that's the main problem. Is it the program that lets you upload many pics at the same time? If you access webshots through your browser, you can only upload one picture at a time, one of its more annoying features (to me). Ah well, my webnv b bn (sorry, Caliban had something he absolutely had to get off his chest - by jumping up on my chest) webshots account is full, so I went back to using Yahoo; they now offer unlimited disk space. But then, you can't view the full-size image on Yahoo any more. Maybe someday I'll get one of those round tuits and look through my webshots albums and remove some pics to free up space there. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki >> When I first got a webshots account, it got me to download this >> program. You open it on your desktop and if you're online, you can [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > someday I'll get one of those round tuits and look through my > webshots albums and remove some pics to free up space there. Yes, that's exactly what it was. You could upload your entire album at the same time. It was very handy. I'm sure it's still there for dowload, I'll have to do it one day. I still have lots of room on webshots. It's too bad about the pics on yahoo being so small. That's why I try to use webshots. Mind you, all of my Vino pics are on yahoo and my connection is too slow to bother moving them over to webshots. SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album >>> When I first got a webshots account, it got me to download this >>> program. You open it on your desktop and if you're online, you can [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > on yahoo and my connection is too slow to bother moving them over to > webshots. Ok, responding to my own post here, how geeky ;-) I re-installed the software and it wasn't too bad. 3 Mb, took half an hour. So I got pics of our lot here: http://community.webshots.com/photo/515565059/538324688zeUVmz SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album <snip> > Ok, responding to my own post here, how geeky ;-) I re-installed the > software and it wasn't too bad. 3 Mb, took half an hour. So I got > pics of our lot here: > http://community.webshots.com/photo/515565059/538324688zeUVmz It looks beautiful. Hopefully when you're there you'll have a broadband connection, then, half an hour to upload 3 Mb will feel like a lifetime. I'm looking forward to stories and pictures from your move, I'm sure April can't come soon enough for you. :-) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) A House is not a home, without a cat. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > <snip> >> Ok, responding to my own post here, how geeky ;-) I re-installed the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > broadband connection, then, half an hour to upload 3 Mb will feel > like a lifetime. We'll definitely have broadband in the house we rent as that will be very close to town. Our lot is 8km from the center of town and we have not been able to find out if broadband goes out there. The phone and electric cables are underground. In any case, I hope that by the time our house is finished (probably almost 3 years), they will have broadband there too. > I'm looking forward to stories and pictures from your move, I'm sure > April can't come soon enough for you. :-) Thanks, Adrian. Yes, I'm very excited. As soon as Dennis gets home, we are getting quotes from movers :-) SignatureBritta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album >> <snip> >>> Ok, responding to my own post here, how geeky ;-) I re-installed [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Check out pictures of Vino at: > http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album I couldn't wait until April! I'd be packed and at the airport (shipyard?) by now! >Finally we completed buying that lot in Australia. Whew! It has just >taken forever and with Dennis being away, I had to do all the paperwork. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >it all done by myself. I am more than just an expat wife ;-) >Huge celebration when Dennis gets home! Congratulations, Britta! May your new life be full of joy and peace! 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