Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Break?

I’m so negligent of my blog these days. I think I might actually take a blogging hiatus which is basically what I am on. Thing is that most days at work, I work through lunch or I’m not in the office at all.

Funny me, I have to look at my work day planner to figure out what I have been up to for the last 3 (?) weeks since I updated.

1) Went to Montreal with C-dub and Nej. Had a great time even if our hotel left much to be desired. It was clean and we didn’t see any crawly things so we can’t complain too much.
2) The following week at work was crazy of course. That weekend we went to Belleville and had a family get together with my mum’s side of the family. My great aunt was here from England with two of her children and her grand children. We had a nice visit with them. I haven’t seen my great aunt since 95, her eldest since he didn’t have kids – 87?, and her youngest ever. Her middle daughter did not come over.
3) That weekend we met our photographer and had some official engagement portraits done. Haven’t seen them yet, but I will let you know if she posts anything on her blog.
4) Last week was very stressful. I almost cried several times at work
5) Last weekend we went camping with Arash’s groomsmen and went rock climbing. I drank way too much southern comfort and currently never want to drink again ever.

That brings us to this week. Busy again (of course). I have to get a report done today, but I have zero motivation to do it. I really am getting sick of that job. Tomorrow I’m out in the field all day, as I was yesterday. Monday I was in meetings all day in our Cambridge office. I’m hoping to leave early from work on Friday. Biggest Sis is coming down for a family get together this weekend with the other side of the family. She is staying at our place. Two of my cousins aren’t able to attend the wedding, so it will be nice to see them.

Oh, almost forgot to mention
a) Honeymoon – Will be to the Rockies. I’m hoping to get to see our Niki when we are out there since they won’t be able to come to the wedding.
b) A’s Grandparent – Visa not approved. We are trying to see if there is anything we can do. A’s mum is pretty upset. She was looking forward to seeing her parents again – she hasn’t seen them for well over 2 years. She is thinking about going to Iran for a visit before our wedding.

5 comments:

Lotus Blossom said...

Of course we can meet up! I would guess that you'll be flying into Calgary, so Logan and I could definitely make a trip down to meet you! Yeah!

lj said...

We were thinking fly into Calgary, spend Monday in Calgary/perhaps drumhellar, and then drive to Edmonton and stop in at Red Deer for dinner or something on Monday (the 6th).

Lotus Blossom said...

Fantastic! Let me know once you've finalized your itinerary. Can't wait to meet A!

Anonymous said...

Oh that sucks that A's grandparent's VISA was denied! Did they give a reason?

-keely

lj said...

"There is no assurance that they will return to Iran at the end of the date indicated on the Visa application".

Arash's Aunt applied for refugee status when she was here in '06 and ended up going back to Iran after her husband started threatening to harm the kids (she was planning on sponsoring them when she got a permanent residence card.) When we aplied we didn't include Azar and Azin's information becuase we were afraid they would be able to look it up and see that this happened before, but the canadian embassy asked us to send them their information.