JoANna

Honestly, I can’t even remember when was the last time I have entered a post. Life has been pretty busy - with work and also taking my Baptism/Confirmation/First Communion classes -
It seems like everytime I entered a post, I am always complaining - so this time, i am going to try my very best to not complain.
This sunday is chinese new year - and this year, I actually have to give…hahaha…
Recently, I have been hooked to this show called LOST - Thanks for my hubby! The second season is on tv now - so we rented the first season from netflix and watch it - and I got hooked. But the only thing is that recently, each episodes has just gotten me more LOST - i guess that must be the reason why they called it LOST - it was meant to make people LOST. I just want to see who "THE OTHERS" are - and what happens if they don’t enter the freaking code. This better not be another show that ends up being cancelled and I don’t get to see the ending.

oh wow, so my last blog i outlined my busy July . . . everything went pretty well except my FINGERPRINTING!!!! That didn’t go well at all. So when I first applied for this Adjustment Of Status for permanent residency, I hired a lawyer to help because I didnt want to deal with all the forms and applications and shit - and let me tell you, it isn’t cheap - and according to her "professional" experience, it was okay to include Joanna in my application even though I didn’t have any ID that had the name Joanna on it. I wanted to add Joanna as my first name cuz that’s how everybody knows me - and I was debating as to whether I should wait till all the things go through with my adjustment of status or should I just do it now with my application and have it all settled with my green card - and so my lawyer said "sure sure" and YEAH RIGHT!! When I got to the fingerprint place, they didn’t let me do my fingerprint because my ID doesn’t match the name so they said that there could be another Joanna out there - so now I am stuck in the middle. I called my lawyer and she was out until the following week so I had to wait until she gets back to tell me what I need to do now. I called her last week when she was back and all she said was "Those people don’t know the laws" - and now she wrote a letter to immigration asking if they can just send out the notices with my real name and forget about the name Joanna - I am still waiting for that to come back but GOD knows how long it will take before the government replies your letters.
Work is still busy as hell - *sigh* - but hopefully things will get better soon - at least my buddy is coming back next monday from her 3 month maternity leave.
As of saturday, Aug 6th, I have been happily married for 3 months!!! hehe . . . love you sweetie.

went to albany yesterday . . . it was pretty fun, had a DSP leadership training and then we went to Chili’s for dinner. Drove back down and it was about midnight when I finally got home….

coming up this month . . .

July
22nd - dentist appt after work and also the day my baby is going into the shop for an oil change and an inspection
23rd - going to the photography plays to pick out the 3 sets of clothing I want to wear for my wedding pictures . . . yep, we are going to take some professional pictures, it was our wedding gift from my sister and brother.
23rd (night) - have to go to a business dinner for work
24th - business meeting from (freaking!!!) 8am to 2pm . . . yikes, sounds pretty boring to me
28th - have to go get my fingerprint done for the immigration . . .freaking ridiculous, had scheduled this a month ago, how long does it take to take my fingerprint!!??!!
31th - going to take my professional wedding pictures with my hubbie.

Pretty busy month and no more free weekends to just chill . . . work has been the same . . . too much going on and it’s scaring me cuz I am starting to get even more emails that doesn’t used to relate to me. Are they planning on putting more on my plate?? I don’t think I can handle anymore . . since right now I am working from 8-7 Mon-Fri, sometimes another hour or two after I come home from work, and couple hours over the weekend - though I’ve been getting lazier over the weekend to do any work.

so this week has been a really loooooonnnnnnngggggg and shitty week, worked really sucked. I don’t know how but I ended up being responsible for what used to be 3 people’s work. Last time I checked, I am not a super woman!! I am tired. I work over hours. I get up at 6:15, leave around 7:15, get to work at 8 and I work non-stop until 6:30 almost every day this week. I don’t have time to eat. I am exhausted and tired and physically and mentally stressed. But nobody seems to understand how I feel. I come home and I just want to sleep but my sweetie pie gets mad at me. What am I supposed to do? I tell him I am tired and he’s like "why are you soo tired?". Did he even give me a second to express myself before he lost his patience with me?? Everyday, I come home and I am exhausted and I still make the effort to make dinner and do my chores but sometimes I don’t feel like I am appreciated at all . . . at work or at home. Maybe I am just burnt out right now and I feel like shit. I just want somebody to understand how I feel. My whole body hurts and I just want to go for a massage and relax myself. But Pat says "I don’t think that’s worth the money cuz you go, you pay for it but it doesn’t do anything anyways". Sometimes we are really two different kinds of people. I always enjoy massage because that really relaxes me. I miss HOME! Over Christmas when I went home, my mom and I went to spa almost every day. That was like HEAVEN! I just need a hole right now to hide because my stress is out of control right now and I am upsetting my sweetie pie.

I had a great weekend!!! We drove up to Erie, PA to attend my brother-in-law’s high school graduation. It was a long drive, a short trip but it was soo worth it. I had so much fun and I miss just the "out of city" life. It felt so peaceful and quiet there. We had a party for him after graduation and food was soo good!!

Also got to meet up with some friends that I haven’t seen since college. It was awesome!

Thanks Barb and Arnel for stopping by even though you guys were soo tired already. The picture of all the saturns were great!! hehe.

Sooo fast, the weekend is over again!! And it was a long weekend too . . . soo sad. Yesterday we went to my aunt’s for a bbq!! Food was sooo good. =)

So I hate the NYC MTA again! It took me an hour to get to work today and I had to stand the whole way and it was soo crowded too. Ahhh!!! I miss the mta in HK. It’s soo much better and i think it’s a lot cooler too. It was soo hot in the train this morning, i thought i was going to pass out.

So this is a short week for me too. Friday is only half a day of work and then it’s a lot of driving. We are going up to Erie for my brother-in-law’s high school graduation. Yay!

So it’s Monday again . . . *Sigh*! Where did the weekend go???? I finally finished watching all the starwars and am now ready to go watch the 3 episode. But not until another couple weeks cuz my hubby and I decided that we are going to watch it when we go home in June for David’s graduation since tickets are cheaper there . . . lol.

Didn’t really do much this weekend except loafing around. Haven’t been feeling too goood these few days. Today I feel really shitty. I got up this morning and I felt really tired. And after I took a shower, I felt like I was going to pass out again and I felt like vomitting. I hope I am not coming down to a flu or something.

When will it be friday??

I guess since I signed up for this, I should start using it…haha.

Anyways, for those of you who doesn’t know, yes I am married. I got married on May 6, 2005. I just want to say how blessed I feel and how lucky I feel to have found my husband. He is a great person. He is always there for me and he loves me more than anything and I love him more than anything. It’s a great feeling and there is no words to ever describe how happy I feel right now.

Thank you for those of you who are always there to support us, especiall you Barb & Arnel. You guys are great. Sad to hear that we can’t meet up in June anymore but hopefully sometime we can meet up. Maybe you guys can make a side trip and come up to Erie on the way home from Chicago . . hehe =)