It took 156 days from our sending date to the approval!
I just feel so happy!

11 days without posting... there is the reason...

Monday, June 9... 10 am...  Sad day

Good bye Chelsea cat, goodbye my old little friend.

I told you some weeks ago that my old cat got sick. Badly sick, she got a kind of cancer because of her old age.

After a first visit to the vet, when she got antibiotics and vitamins shots, she was feeling and looking better.

But after 3 weeks she was back in a bad bad state. We went back to the vet on Saturday afternoon. He gave her some shots again but he was honest, it was not a lot of hopes.

And then, on Sunday she was looking so bad, that I took the big decision. It makes me cry all the day. I gave her a lot of hugs and kisses, and when she was looking at me... we both knew... even more, she was asking that I do something. She was tired being sick and she loses strength to fight.

And so...

On Monday morning we went to the vet for the last time...

I was even not able to talk as I had too much of tears.

The vet was really sweet and nice. I opened Chelsea's basket and she came against me in her kind of hug, pressing her head against my chest and she stayed like that, like she was waiting.

I took her head in my hands to look at her, i told her that I'll miss her... I gave her again a lot of kisses.

And the vet gave her a shot to make her sleeping. She felt asleep in my arms, and I have to say... she was looking very peaceful.

The vet asked me if I wanted to stay for the final shot. I said no, I was already crying a lot and I was afraid to see her... dead.

It was on last Monday, and since, I wanted to write that post, and since I was not able to do it, even now, I'm in the metro writing on my notebook... and crying...

Good bye My Chelsea cat, goodbye my old friend, we shared 16 years together, we shared joy, we shared sadness, we shared all...

Am I an idiot?

Nope I'm not!

Why?

Cause only the idiots never changed their mind!

Let me tell you.

Yesterday, I was a bit disappointed about the "Princess" perfume. I know that Richard doesn't even smelled it before he talked to me about it. But, you know, I'm like that... It's the kind of little things that please me to do if it will please my Love.

And it makes me kinda upset to don't like the perfume my One was thinking about for me.

This afternoon after my post about "Princess' and "Flower Bomb", I visited the Vera Wang website : http://www.verawangprincess.com.

And there's what they write about the perfume :

Princess ...
Cheerful,unpredictable and daring.
A new spirit in a perfume, inspired by a princess today.
Self-confident, independent, thirsting for existence ... Born to rule.

It made me even more upset...

I know that's commercial... don't laugh at me, it's the kind of trap I may really easy fall in.
...
Then I was reading what they says about the fragrance :

This sheer, flirty blend of water lily, lady apple, mandarin meringue, and golden apricot skin are melded with sheer floral notes, accented with dark chocolate, and finished with a pink frosting accord, amber, warm woods, musk, and vanilla - a whimsical treat.

So weird...!?
It's the kind of fragrance I use to really like!

I tried to remember the moment I tried "Princess"... and you know what I saw?

Gally, my little sweet monster, running all around me, testing every perfume available in the store, shaking her collection of testing papers dripping perfume in front of me, asking :

Do you like that one? and that one? and that one? and that one? and that one?... You know... Like a broken record.
At that time my abilities olfactory was completely lost in a fragrance storm.

And I think that the only reason I was able to appreciate "Flower Bomb" is because I knew it already.

As I figure out what happened...  and as I wanted so bad to make my Love happy, as soon I left work, I went to the store again.

This time, my nose was free from perfumes attack... I tested again "Princess".

And?!

Hehe!! :p Don't be surprise...

I like it!!! I even bought a bottle.

Well right now I got to new perfumes... so like that I can be a Flower Bomb or a Princess for my Love!

And so... yes 100 days waiting today since we sent our petition to the U.S.C.I.S...

It's not really something I wanted to celebrate but... it's like that.

For sure I will prefer to shout : WE GET APPROVED!!!

But not right now.

We still have to wait.

Hopefully it will be soon now.

A day, as we had a nice walk in Chicago's streets.
We found an art gallery that exhibited Britto's creations.

We immediately fell in love with the art of Britto.

It's about all the feelings we had watching them.

For me, Britto's art is how I see our love.

It's bright, colorful, simple, fresh, lovely!
It looks like kids drawing, its innocent, it's beautiful, it's true.

One of my favorite is that one "Kids heart", Coeur de gamins in French. I love it so much.

Look! It's Richard and I! It's us!

Richard and I we're love art!

I love Britto's!!!

http://www.britto.com/

Sometimes it's not easy to find an image a picture to illustrate my posts.

And today I found nothing.

It's a quiet day at work even if I'm with Gally because of the strike.
I have almost nothing to do right now.

Yesterday I teched my new co-worker, and today, I gave him the work I use to do. So... I'm doing nothing.

I was not prepare for that!!!

So now, maybe I can think about some new posts!

BRB!

I feel broken, tired, exhausted this evening. I'm not complaining, it's just a fact.

Where is the women who says that she's a fighter you'll maybe wonder...

She's right now lost in some strike black hole. Today, after a busy weekend when I don't really get rest, after a busy day at work, when I went to Gally's school after work, the after school educators told me that it will be strike again on Thursday.

The battle angel on Wikipedia

I'm so sorry no post yesterday.
I was kinda busy.

I'm spending the weekend with my 2 daughters and we had a lot to do.

First, we went to the dentist for Gally. It was her very first time to the dentist. By chance she had nothing bad, it was just her gum a bit inflated due to new teeth coming.
Good things for her, the dentist said that she got great teeth. No pain, no scary cares. Gally is happy and not afraid by the dentist.

Second, we went to the townhouse to get some paperworks for my big one.

Third, we went to the vet, for my cat, Chelsea. She is old, almost 16. And since some days she completely stopped eating. She's already small and thin, and after some diet days, she was looking like a skeleton.
The vet told us, that... hmmmm it looks like it's only because her old age. But we gonna to try to save her.
He gave her 5 shots, some vitamins, some antibiotics, some re hydration solution. He gave us some medics for her, and also a high calories pasta and 2 boxes of special food for sick cats.

He told us, that if she fight, he she restart to eat by herself during the weekend, we may have good hopes. If not...

He was hoping that she will eat the half of one of the special food box 'till Monday.
So he asked us to call back on Monday morning and say how Chelsea is feeling, what she eats ... etc.

And I'm really happy!!! 'Cause she do great. As I'm writing she already eats almost one complete box and we're only Sunday early afternoon.

My cat is getting better, she's like me, she's a fighter.

Beside that I had to do food shopping, "homeworks"...etc.

And also I was working on the blog's look and feel. I changed it a bit. I hope that you'll like it. I still have to do some stuffs, but right now it looks almost like I want.

I need to vent on something!!!!... or not...

My day started as a kind of bad day...you know that kind of day you'll think. Oh god, I guess it's just not my day.

The boss : Where are you? You're late!
Me : Yes, I told you yesterday about schools strike, so I come even if not easy for me, but I'm sorry. When you run with a young child, being late may happens.
The boss : You have to manage your time to don't be late (it's one of his favorite sentence).
Me : OK, If its like that, next time, I will stay at home with my daughter, period! And I ended the call.

The boss : When you want to leave?
Me : I will give you my 3 months notice as soon I will have my NOA2 from the USCIS
The boss : Yes I know, but what I ask is : When you want to go?
(I tried to don't look too happy or too surprised)
Me : Oh If I can leave in August it will be perfect.
The boss : OK, I hope it will be enough for the new guy to learn about all your skills. but, OK.

Do you know what's that picture?

Nope?

Any guess?

No its not the new kind of modern art... nope... definitely not.

That picture is how will look your laptop screen if you have crazy kids jumping everywhere 'till they'll fall on your laptop...

It's what happens to me this evening...

Gally had her crazy time, you know like 5 years old kids may have. And being completely nuts she felt on my laptop.
When I heard the sound... I knew it was broken.

You know at that moment your heart will leap into your mouth . You have, your daughter who doesn't get hurt and your expensive comp broken.

You can be the sweetest, you'll yelled! And I yelled!

Oh My!

So, I sent her in her bed, and I checked how bad are the damages.

By chance I have another monitor, you know, a big one. So I plugged it on my laptop. And, I can breathe, only the screen is broken. So I lost nothing but the screen.

So now as even if I'm still upset, I will just go to bed, read my book and get some rest.

Tomorrow morning, when Gally will wake up. I know it she will come in my arms and say : I'm so sorry mum, I love you. And I will hug her.
A screen it's just something that can be fixed.
Even, OK... I'm upset about that right now.

Nothing is more important than the love of your loves.
And by the way, my Love, my Richard already told me that he will fix my screen when he will come in 2 weeks to visit me!

OK, this evening was not so good, but, my Love can be like always ... MY HERO!

Yesterday I was really lazy, I did almost nothing beside getting rest. I even posted nothing on the blog.
Booooouh!!! Shame on me!

And I forgot something important!!!
Yesterday was the blog first month birthday!!!

Happy birthday my blog!!!

Yes, already one month that I share with you my stuffs.

And I have to say for a blog that talks only about me, my Love, our life, our immigration journey... so I will say not something highly hype or popular. I got some nice traffic.
My statistics said that I have something like 40 unique visitors by days.
It's kinda cool
I wanted to say thank you to all my visitors, I'm just sad that I don't get a lot of comments.
Please don't be shy, feel free to comment my posts... or maybe it means that my posts are so bad that you don't feel to let any comments. :p
No matter
I will still write my stuffs but the days I feel too lazy to do it.

Again, Welcome to all my visitors, thank you for coming and maybe reading me.

Hugs and kisses!

As I was surfing on the web this morning, I found that video.
It makes me laugh so big that I needed to share it with you :p

They plays and old movie on the TV. A Marlene Dietrich movie.

Do you remember her?

She was a great symbol of femininity. She was that kind of woman every women would like to be, every men would like to have.
She was beautiful, she was distinguished, she was a "femme fatale".

Her amazing eyes masked behind the veil of smoke was heart killers! How many men would be damned themselves to kiss her lips? When she was smoking she was so hot, so sexy, so desirable... Her cigarette raucous voice gave shivers...

It was a time when smoking was normal. Better still, smoking was the "way to be". It was hype, it was fashion, it was hot and sexy, it was glam!

...

And now in 2008. How is it? It's still glamorous being a smoker?
Certainly not. Being a smoker start to be a real nightmare.

Every single day we can hear than smoking kills, than smoking is highly bad for the health, than the smokers will die in abominable sufferings...

So after all those years where we had no informations about the smoking dangers, after all those years when the tobacco's manufacturers hid all the chemicals which they put in the cigarettes to makes smokers more addicts.

What kind of solutions our governments give to the smokers? (I have to say, it's about the same in France and in the U.S.A)
Are they forcing tobacco's manufacturers to re-invest their benefits in "how to stop smoking research"? Are they giving smokers really effective medicals solutions?

To my knowledge, absolutely not.

The only solution I know they give at this time is "the smokers hunt", "the smokers discrimination".

Now, after having been glamorous, the smokers are bad, they are guilty. They are guilty to smoke and smoke out the nonsmokers.
Now it's forbidden to smoke everywhere, now it's start to be better being caviar addict than being a smoker.

Why they don't really help the smokers?
Imagine, that tomorrow all the smokers stop smoking, stop buying cigarettes... Where our governments will take the money they have right now with cigarettes taxes?

They will not help the smokers because they will lose billion.

You know that if I talk about that, it's because I'm a smoker... for years... 24 years exactly.
I'm not a bad person. I would like to stop. But... I can't. I already tried and I'll try again...

Just don't forget, smokers are not criminals, smokers are not bad and most of them wants to stop.