What Have I Done??

Oh My God! I have signed up for Body Boot Camp this summer through hubby's work. What in the hell possessed me do do this?
days a week for one hour each of strenuous exercise in front of my husband and I don't know how many of his coworkers. I must be out of my mind. I get winded walking up hills in our neighborhood! The embarrassment will be acute. Of course, Hubby knows that I am out of shape. It'd be hard for him not to have noticed as I've gained almost 35 lbs. since we met ( I would like to attribute a good portion of this to the fertility drugs but as I've been off them for more than a year...) and I've been smoking like a freight train while paperchasing. I'm just not sure he really understands the extent. So, I'm off to buy a cheap heart rate monitor. The Boot Camp email suggested this. If no more posts ensue then you know that I have actually died during Boot Camp Hell.

I hereby bequeath :

To my Dad - all of my Sci-Fi and fantasy books.

To Jen and Dayna jointly - all other books. Fight it out girls.

To my husband - all artwork. It ought to be worth something after I snuff it.

To Dayna - exception to the above. The drawing of you I made our first semester of college. You know, back before asking someone to pose like that would've had us all screaming about Back Fat. I keep meaning to frame it for you but as you well know, I am slack.

To Jen - all of my disco Cd's as well as my Pride and Prejudice DVD. I wish you the joy of Colin Firth in a wet shirt.

Sadly, that is all my treasured stuff except for shoes. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone else with midget feet.

Cross your fingers for me. I need it.

Elvis Has Left The Building

This is gonna be a short one. Just to let everyone know that we have an official DTC ( dossier to China ) date. It is April 27, 2007. Now it may take as long as 36 months to get our referral but we are SOOOOO happy to have all of the paperwork done. I'm sure we will get sick of the wait but for now it seems like a huge weight has been lifted! We celebrated by going to our favorite Chinese restaurant last night. Mmmm.

Speeling (oops! SPELLING)

Just a note to say that I don't spell very well. I usually use spell- check but sometimes not. Also, I can only type by the hunt and peck method. So when you see all those irritating mistakes just feel sorry for me (ha ha) and try not to let it bother you too much.

Dossier Done ? I think not...

Okay, so I got the dreaded call from GWCA just a few minutes ago. It turns out that they are worried that hubby's records are not enough. Because he was born in Switzerland we had originally been told that a copy of his US Passport would do the trick. Now with all of the new rules starting to go into effect our agency is worried that CCAA will pull our Dossier and send it back if it does not contain an actual ( translated) birth certificate from switzerland. Thankfully, and God bless my Mother-in-Law here, we have a copy on hand that is several differnt languages including english. It's just that now we have to drive to the State Capital to have it Certified and then expidite it through Washington with the courier. I am trying to be philosophical about it all but sometimes... Well, you know. It just brings me down. I do give kudos to our agency for asking us to do this now, just in case, instead of the "wait and see" atitude. If it came back a month from now I'm pretty sure that philosophy would be out the window and I would be a Madwoman;)

Sweet and Sour

Well, I can hardly believe it but the Dossier is Done! We sent it out Fed Ex yesterday and it was received at Great Wall this morning at 8:45 am. I keep waiting for a phone call to tell me that we have forgotten some vital piece of information! I think not though. I double and triple checked everything before packing it up. It should be sent to China this Friday. We spent a lot of time deciding which picturs to sent. You know, do we look happy?, do I look fat?, which shot makes our house look the biggest? That sort of thing. I mounted them on blue card stock and added some stickers ( feeling too drained to draw any) to show "we are at the beach", "this is hubby's birthday dinner", "we are on a ski vacation", etc... since captions are not translated. I will post one or two of them here.

There aggravaiting news is the rumor of extended waiting times for referrals that are going around. According to some of the latest polls ( based on current wait times) our projected date for referral could be as long as 36 months. Yep, that's 3 years folks. Of course no one Really can say what will happen but even our agency has addressed this concern leading me to believe that it is a very real possibility. So hubby and I have decidec to plan some trips that will be hard to do when we have a family to pass the time. I am trying to think of some good ones...