Let's go to the USA with Miss Yoko

We're in the USA!!!!

Yoko — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:12:00 +0100

Finally!!!

After a long long wait, Gally and I we entered the U.S.A on October 30 2008.

It was a stressful journey.

First I had to prepare the move, you know packaging everything, closing different stuffs like cellphone account etc... It's not like moving from a city to another one... you have to think about all!

On October 28 evening, we was spending our last night in our apartment... not so easy to sleep well.

October 29, early in the morning i was finishing to pack our last stuffs. Luggages are ready, boxes for the movers too.

Movers came... it was pretty fast, i don't had so much. After that I cleaned completely the apartment. At 3 pm I gave back the keys to the landlord. And Gally and I we jumped in a cab with our 4 big luggages, 2 travel bags and my wedding dress.

OMG, how i will manage all of that!!!???

We spend our very last night in Paris in a hotel near the Airport.

I was worrying too much! everything went fine.

As soon we arrive to the airport, an airport employee was helping us with the luggages until the United Check-in line. There, A United employee told me that she will help us as soon the Chicago's check-in will be open.

And yes, Gally and I we don't had to do the long line for the check-in. The United employee helped us to reach the Business Class check-in, like that we don't had to wait.

The guy for the check-in was really nice also as he does not charged me for the luggages overweight.

And beside that Gally was really helpful. It's not easy for a 6 years old. But, she was nice all the time. The flight was good. We was tired... so we slept most of the time.

Then finally, we landed at Chicago O'Hare Airport!

The Immigration officer was really nice with us and Gally even received an U.S flag badge.

Richard was waiting us, Gally started to run when she saw him, screaming his name.

We are so happy!

Now start our new life in the USA with my Love Richard!

WE GOT IT!!!!

Yoko — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:28:00 +0200

After 162 days waiting we received finally our approval dated from July 23.

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

In some weeks now I will have the final interview at the embassy!

Soon Richard and I we will be together forever and longer!

To be honnest

Yoko — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:14:00 +0200

I'm going crazy!!!!!!!

We're waiting now since 150 days and still no news from the USCIS.

I gonna to repeat myself, but, I can tell I had to deal with a lot of hard things in my life but that wait is really the hardest.

I feel bas as its possible to feel. And I have to hide it a lot, 'cause I can't be sad and crying in front of my little one.

...

My horoscope of the day

Yoko — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:30:00 +0200

I know, its horoscope.... so nothin real...
But I would like that that one is true!!!

YOUR HOROSCOPE
25 June 2008

Mercure invite natives to be more open toward the outside. For some, it will travel questions or friends abroad. For others, it might be to accept a job abroad for a while longer or shorter. In fact, everything that relates abroad will likely factor.

Day 126... and still waiting

Yoko — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:25:00 +0200

Receipt Number: WACxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Application Type: I129F, PETITION FOR FIANCE(E)

Current Status: Case received and pending.

On February 19, 2008, we received this I129F PETITION FOR FIANCE(E), and mailed you a notice describing how we will process your case. Please follow any instructions on this notice. We will notify you by mail when we make a decision or if we need something from you. If you move while this case is pending, call customer service. We process cases in the order we receive them. You can use our processing dates to estimate when yours will be done. This case is at our CALIFORNIA SERVICE CENTER location. Follow the link below to check processing dates. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register

And for now that's all. Every days... or i have to say a lot of time by days, each time I go to my USCIS account I see the same message...
It start to be so long without news.

I still try to make me busy as I can... but its not easy to get the process out of my mind. I know, i'm not blogging also... I'm sorry about that. But if I post it don't gonna to be silly or funny... and reading someone complaining will be not funny too...

So...

I'm still there, will do my best to still blogging a bit.

And I hope I'll be able to give you great news soon

Monday, June 9... 10 am... Good Bye Chelsea Cat

Yoko — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:51:00 +0200

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...

I miss you...

Chunkey Monkey time!

Yoko — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:15:00 +0200

We use to see in some T.V Shows girls eating ice creams when they feels bad...

Most of the time I'm OK, even when I'm feel bad, because of my weight obsession I wont eating extra calories.

BUT!

Today I need my "pêché mignon", today I need my Chunkey Monkey!!!!

And as I'm writing this post I'm eating Chunky Monkey ice cream. Why?

'Cause I'm tired to have nothing to answer when peeps asking me about immigration.
Like today...

At the morning, I go with Gally at school, we crossed another mum... :

She: "How're you doing, I heard that you'll move in th U.S, what a great journey! So When you'll move exactly?
Me : "Hummmm, you know I'm still waiting from the immigration, soon I think, but I don't really know right now..."

and blah blah blah...

Later in the day... My boss..

Him : "Hey Chantal (OK, now you know, Yoko is only my famous name :p), what about your visa journey? Did you have news? When you'll give me your notice?"
Me : "Awwwwwwwwww.... pffffffffffffff.... You know... As soon as possible, I can tell you'll know it when I'll know it."

At bit later as I was doing some shopping near home, I met Michelle, a Gally's school educator..:

She: "Hey, What's up? Blah blah, blah blah... When you'll move?"
Me : "I'm still waiting about immigration, but, you know it's normal, it use to be like that, but I have good hope to move at early september... blah blah..."

I want to say to the peeps :
"We're approved, I have my visa interview at the ambassy next week and I'll move next month!"

So right now I cant.... to make me feel better this evening... CHUNKY MONKEY!

I'll code html for food :p

Yoko — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:29:00 +0200

My love drives me CRAZY!!!

I'm not sure if it was his goal or not, but, since Richard asked me about blogs, I turned crazy about it.

So, maybe Richard was searching a way to make me busy, like that I'll don't count the days, I'll forget the wait and I don't gonna to be depress.

And, whatever if it was his goal or not... It works!!!

Richard awakes some of my old knowledges.
Then now I'm working really hard on blogs stuffs.

I work on css, yes, but also I start to remind my junior knowledge about php, I retrieved a great pleasure to work with Photoshop and even more, I'm thinking to work with Flash!

Oh Gosh... now I got a lot of projects, I want to do that and that and that, and I'm thinking it will be a good idea to do that also... etc. etc. ...

I just have to don't forget to post there! :p

No worries, I wont!

Just, you know, it's a kind of rebirth. I mean, I liked webdesign in the past (never ask me to show you what I did... 'cause I lost all of my old data's ), but for some reasons it's something I completely stopped to do some years ago.

So now, as I already said, my goal is to become some kind of web expert, first for myself, will see if it can drive me in something else... or... maybe... in some weeks... I'll think that I saw all I had to see about that and think that I'll have to try something else... or I will just to busy with my immigration!!!

Oh god I HOPE SO!!!!

I'm Miss Yoko aka Blogninja!

Yoko — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:56:00 +0200

Don't hit me! I know, no posts since Saturday... I'm baaaaaaad :p

It's about blogging or more, blog designing and blog building.

Another Visa Journey member told me that she was not happy about her blog cause she don't know how to modify it.
She asked me for some helps.

So I signed up at her blog system and checked what I can do for her, using her main image, he colours and the blog template she used.
And I did that for her :

And as soon my Love saw me playing with photoshop and css, he asked me if I can work on a blog for him.

First I did that with gandi blog, like mine :

But, I figured out that's not fully customizable and adaptable. Cause gandi even if i love to blog with my gandi blog, doesn't allow you to customize you blog so much. Even if the blog solution, Dotclear, they use is fully customizable.
And Richard told me that the blog he already use is WordPress.

So I signed up at the WordPress website, and ... arggggghhhh. It's worse than Gandi, you can only choose some themes, but it's not fully customizable but if you pay, and even if you pay you can't do what you want.

Then I deed some search and found that I can install WorpPress solution on my own webserver... and I will be allow to do what I want.

And you know what? Now I have my webserver on gandi, and I already installed WordPress on it, and already worked on an existing Wordpress theme I found trough the web.

Well, for that one it's just and adaptation from an existing theme. I will work now on my own theme from scratch!

I also installed the Dotclear solution on my webserver and will work on it either.

And now my goal is to become an expert about Wordpress and Dotclear blogs... and about css too... and my other goal is to redo completely my photowebsite and ... my blog too.

...

You know what? I just keep me busy!!!

Am I an idiot? Or a princess?!

Yoko — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:40:00 +0200

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.

I was... Oh Gosh!!! It's exactly me!!! (or almost)

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!

Back to waiting....

Yoko — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:55:00 +0200

Unfortunately my Love had to left yesterday afternoon...

Gally and I we was going with Richard to the airport... it was so hard to let him go.
To don't fall to depressed, Gally and I we had a walk in a mall...

BAD!!!

To forget that I was so sad, I needed to spend some money. We went to the Sephora store (perfumes), i went there 'cause I wanted to try the Vera Wang perfume, "Princess".
My Love heard about it, and 'cause I'm his princess, he was thinking that maybe it can be my perfume.

I tried it... I really don't like it...

But as I was there I tried the Viktor and Rolf perfume, "Flowerbomb"!

Oh gosh! I love it! OK, it's a bit a heavy perfume, but, it smells soooooooo good... I bought it!

I hope my Love will love it too.

Happy 100 days waiting Bday to us!

Yoko — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:56:00 +0200

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.

I'm too busy to take care about the blog! :)

Yoko — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:04:00 +0200

I'm sorry!
But since my sweetheart is arrived on Saturday afternoon. I don't really take care about the blog right now. I think you can understand this as I prefer to spend my time in my Love arms than on my comp.

The only reason I'm posting today is because I had to come at work...

So, some quick news.

Saturday afternoon I was going to the airport to welcome my Love! I was so happy that I gave a 7 euros diner ticket to a homeless guy who was begging for money.

Oh my, you can't imagine the wonderful feelings to be finally in my Love arms, I have no words to describe it.

Sunday we went to Bruxelles to visit my parents. It was the first meeting with Richard. And all was perfect. We spent such a great time all together.

We don't really have plans for the following days. Today I'm working. But, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday i got free days, I will be able to stay all the time with my one. We will see.

Don't worry if you'll get no news 'till Thursday.

No news mean that I'm too happy to even think about the blog.

Coeur de gamins, Richard and I, we're always kids!

Yoko — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:58:00 +0200

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/

Someday the mice will come at night...

Yoko — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:42:00 +0200

Last Saturday was a big day for Gally.
Last Saturday it was her very first visit to the dentist.

Gally got really good teeth and she brushes them good every day.

She also never drinks sodas, only water or milk.

Then 'till now, no need to go to the dentist.
But some days ago, she told me that it was hurting on her teeth.
I was... oh no... the cavities are starting! :(

             Ok sweetie, let me check what happens!
           Open your mouth wide.
             Hmmm, OK, I see no cavities! Good!
             But, open wider... is it in the back?
             I see, that your gum looks irritate in the back.

             Let's call the dentist to have an appointment.

Grrrr, Damned! 2 weeks waiting to get an appointment but if its an emergency.
It's my sweetie! It's en emergency!

...

Well, as we have to wait 2 weeks, we will do extra special teeth's care!
After 2 days of extra cares, irritation of the gum had disappeared.

But as I wanted Gally ready for her first dentist visit, I was still helping her every days... in case of.

And also we talked every days about her appointment.

I never told her about scaring dentist stories and apparently nobody at school either. Good thing!

We was then talking about the dentist almost like we would talk about the hairdresser.

I told Gally about the moving chair, how the dentist will watch her teeth etc... OK, I forgot to talk about the shots but I was pretty sure that she don't gonna get the shots.

And Gally told me that she can't wait to lose her first tooth.
I asked, why. She answered that she wants to lose her first tooth to stay awake and see the little mice coming!
She wonder what kind of gift she will get.

She's so cute.

So, the appointment was just easy. She has nothing.
It was only her last molars, which were being released.
Gally even wanted to stay more to play with the chair!

I hope that it will be always like that! And... extra special cares are now normal cares! Just in case of!

No pictures

Yoko — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:00:00 +0200

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!

La la la la la la la la

Yoko — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:17:00 +0200

La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la

La la la la la la la la

I just can’t get you out of my head
Boy your lovin’ is all I think about
I just can’t get you out of my head

...

We all know that song

And I can tell I can't get my Love out of my head, and I don't want to get my Love out of my head.

But right now I try every day to get that wait out of my head. Again and again and again... Its hard.
93 days waiting now.
It's the reason I don't posted yesterday.
You know, being online for the blog, makes me able to check U.S.C.I.S website and stuffs... and as I see no change right now it makes me feeling... down.

Well, Yesterday, after my usual tasks. I choose to turn of my comp and go to bed with my book. Getting lost in the story helps me to forget all of that, reading 'till I'll fall asleep...

It's my way to forget these last days.I really start to get crazy about that.

...

As I'm writing and thinking about that I start to feel down. Tomorrow is another day. I will feel better.

Broken...

Yoko — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:14:00 +0200

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.

Oh my god! Enough! I can maybe understand that they fight about bad stuffs, but now its almost every weeks. Days at work with Gally is something really exhausting. If its happened rarely, it's kinda OK, I will almost say pretty funny. But, it was 3 days in April, now 2 days in May... it's the straw that broke the camel's back!

Beside it's exhausting I know that I have a lot of tasks to do this week... So I will try to do in the 2 following days what I planned to do in 3 days... just... 3 days was already very short...

I feel like the picture that illustrate my post. It's the broken battle angel. She's a fighter... but she's broken...

About the Battle Angel, here's a little story.
Do you remember that my little laptop's screens killer calls Gally?
The Battle Angel name is Gally. It's from where come Gally's name.

A lot of years ago now, I was reading the Battle Angel story. I liked so much Gally the main character, that I decided to call my daughter Gally in case off I will have one.

And Gally came. And I can tell, she's a fighter! OK right now she fights with my laptop, but not only! She was training her Panzer Kunst when she broke my screen... I'm guilty! I gave a fighter name to my daughter... I have to deal with.

The battle angel on Wikipedia

The blog needs beauty cares either!

Yoko — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:11:00 +0200

Like you maybe already saw I was working this weekend on the blog's look and feel.
I was not completely happy about the look. So I needed to change it a bit.

It was not easy to work on it because of my broken comp. So I work on an old and slow laptop.
Working with Photoshop on that laptop mean that you'll have to ask Voodoo Spirits for some helps.

You may say, "Why you don't wait to have your comp fixed to do it?".

:p

'Cause! When I want to do something, I can't wait to do it. I told you, patience is not my first quality.

Well, I did my best with what I had, it's not finish at this time.

I hope that you like it. If not, tell me! I need to know.

And also, I'm sorry but if you're not "up-to-date" it's possible that the blog doesn't look good for you.

You'll need Firefox or Internet Explorer 7 to see it in the right way.

Chelsea cat is a figther!

Yoko — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:58:00 +0200

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.