Hellooooo, everyone!!!
I hope you didn't think that I'd forgotten about you or this blog. Quite the opposite. I've come to love this blog, it's like a diary for me where I can vent, explain, sympathize, poke fun of myself and let you in on my life in this crazy but amazing country. I haven't posted in such a long time because I thought they had blocked this site at work because it uses Gmail to log in. Social media website along with personal email websites are blocked at my job. And my Aussie still hasn't gotten around to getting the internet set up at our new place. He's gotten the pricing, filled out and submitted the application but hasn't set up a time for the tech to come out and install everything. It's taken almost three months to get that much down so maybe in another three months we'll get the tech out to visit.
But thankfully, it wasn't that work had blocked the site, it was because we were still operating off of Internet Explorer 3.0 and my system was so slow that it wouldn't let me get anywhere on Blogger. But we just had an upgrade done yesterday to 8.0 and now I'm sailing along just fine. Woohoo!! I can open any website I want, nothing's distorted, it's all colorful and pretty and fast. It's like getting internet for the first time all over again. Ha!
Anyway, some great things have happened in the last few weeks. I finally got my last criminal background check result back from the State of New York Division of Criminal Justice so my visa application checklist is now complete. Can I get a big CHECK-CHECK from the crowd?!? So my Aussie and I are going in this coming Tuesday in the early morning to submit all of our paperwork and fork over a ridiculous amount of money and pray that whoever the random person is in the Department of Immigration that gets assigned my file is really efficient and kind and decides to let me live here past my expiration date (Dec. 17, 2011). It's a nerve-wracking thought that someone can weild that power over you, someone that doesn't know anything about you other than the 200 pages of personal information, letters, pictures and medical records sitting in front of them.
Anyway, I've also started running again. Road running. I'm about two weeks into it and have gotten up to about 12k's. My Aussie and I are going to enter in the City2Surf race that is on August 14. It's a 15k run that starts in Hyde Park in the business district of Sydney and ends at Bondi Beach (click here for the link to check out the course and details). A friend of ours is entering her charity into the race so a big group of us is running for it and trying to raise money for her. It's called Giant Steps Sydney and it's an amazing school for children with autism. Her 4-year-old son was diagnosed not too long ago and since attending the school is now testing at 3 1/2-year-old level (he started out at the 2-year-old level). So I'm trying to log as many kilometers as I can. It's decieving because it seems like you are running longer distances when you measure in kilometers and mentally I start to tire out a little. (l km = .62 miles)
I am loving it though. There are some amazing routes to run here and they are all so visually stunning that it helps to distract from the massive case of shin splints I'm developing. I've been running on treadmills for so long now that the road running is having it's way with my shins. Oh well! It's worth the pain and a great way to get to know Sydney!
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