Well another month is almost over, and I thought I should write a quick update to the old blog. I have actually just changed over all the hosting, I’m getting rid of the old photophono tag and just going with paul-lancaster.com from now on. I’ll be updating the whole site sometime soon, so keep checking back.
Well it has actually been quite a busy month, My little princess Avie turned 2 months old, she is growing so fast, it is quite shocking. Parents always talk about how fast their kids grow up and you don’t really appreciate the fact until you witness it first hand. She is so bright and bubbly, she craves attention though and she loves hanging out with Mummy and Daddy. She doesn’t like to be put to bed sometimes, I think because she doesn’t like being in her room on her own and just wants to hang out, she is definitely going to be a sociable little flower.
Crystal and I bought a car, a ’98 Honda Civic. I have been meaning to take a photo, part of the reason I haven’t wrote a blog is because I was waiting until I had a photo of the car to post, but with the crappy weather the car has been pretty dirty and it’s too cold to go out and clean it. I’ll update with a photo soon though. It’s so nice to have a car, we don’t feel as trapped anymore, it was hard to get anywhere around here without a vehicle. It was strange getting used to driving an automatic at first though, but I have the hang of it now, although I still don’t like it as much as driving a manual car.
My temporary visa expired this month too, I can’t believe it has been a year that I have been in Canada now! It has gone by crazy fast. I have applied for an extension to visitor status, which I’m still waiting to hear back about. The lady at Immigration told me that once it is sent in the post it is taken that it is approved, until Canadian Immigration advise me otherwise. It better all go through okay!!! I took my medical examination too, for the application for permanent residency. I had to head over to Fredericton and go for a check up at the doctor and then for blood tests and a chest x-ray at the nearby hospital. It was a surprisingly smooth and fast process, I was expecting it to take all day but in fact it only took a couple of hours for the whole thing. The only dumb thing was when they asked me about average weekly alcohol intake, I didn’t take into account the weeks when I don’t drink anything at all, I was adding up the average consumption for when I actually drink, which obviously puts my average higher if I don’t take account of the zeros! I hope they don’t think I’m an alcoholic.
Crystal and Avie applied for their passports for our trip to England too. They should be arriving in April. It is so exciting to be going over to see everyone, I miss my family so much, especially since the arrival of little Avie, I can’t wait for her to meet everyone, especially her cousin Jodie who is super excited I’m sure. We also got tickets to see Modest Mouse in London, which is a band that Crystal and I both LOVE. I have a lot to sort out before the trip too, not least getting the speech ready that me an Tim will have to make at Shai and Lisa’s wedding. I haven’t even had chance to think about that yet! It will scare me too much if I do I’m sure.
Well we will be into April in a few hours! My main goal for the month is to get all my immigration forms filled in and sent off. I definitely need to get all that done and dusted before we leave for England, in fact much sooner than that. Well I better go for now. I will try my best to post more often in this coming month and update with some photos soon. Bye for now.