So.. I don't even remember when I wrote last. Time has flown and I have had to much to do.
All in all we are all doing good. Our bathroom is pretty much done. I am waiting for Rich to get around to cut the floorboards to fit and nailing them in. But it is a functioning bathroom. And it looks nice! A lot of thanks to Br. Clark of course. He helped us with the floor.
The kids have one more drill at Young marines before graduation from Boot camp. We have all their uniforms ready and I will post pics. from the graduation. They look so good!
Sophia has been on Prednesolone for her flare-ups. And she started at 10mg twice a day and got down to 5 mg once a day. And then the Dr told us to stop it altogether to see how she would do. It took a week before she flared up again and three days back on 5mg a day before she felt good again..
It seams she will have to stay on the Pred. for now.. I am not so happy about it, but at least she feels good!
Did I mention that I applied for citizenship? Anyhow, today was my interview.
The process is: Apply, go for fingerprinting, interview and swearing in.
So today was my Interview. I can't believe how nervous I was. I really knew I would do fine, but somehow it was just overwhelming and I had butterflies galore and slept for &%&* last night.
Never mind that the computer at Kinko's wouldn't let me in to my yahoo account so I could print my tax returns that I was supposed to bring. I was stressing to the max.
The appointment was at 10:45am and I was not allowed to arrive more than 30 minutes early. But since I was so nervous I decided to give myself plenty of time so I left at a few after 7 this am. A good thing too, as it turned out.
Centennial/Englewood, CO apparently has a whole lot of 'E Weaver' streets. There is a E Weaver Cir. TWO: E Weaver Pl (I saw booth! ), E. Weaver Ave. and one more (the correct one) E Weaver Place.
So the directions I had printed out did me absolutely NO GOOD. According to Google Maps, I was to turn left on a: S Helena St. Well, there is no such street there at all!
I was so stressed at the start of this day and I was driving around in Centennial trying to find a street that doesn't exist and that did not help.
Finally i stopped at a 7-11 to ask for directions. The lady there did not know, and handed me the Yellow Pages. But one of the customers came up and told me where to go. That is how I found the E. Weaver Cir. Not the correct place at all.
So I tried to find somewhere else to ask for directions and ended up at 'Discount Tires'. The staff there went out of their way to help me. They googled on map quest and printed out a map, twice (first time led me to the TWO different E. Weaver Pl. ), the second time we finally found the correct address and I got the correct directions. I was not awfully off, just about a mile to much to the East.
I got there at 10 am, just as it started to snow. I sat in the car. trying to calm down. And since I had not had breakfast (the stress..) I drank the Atkins shake I had brought.
Gathered my stuff (I had to bring: passport, both current and expired, green card, drivers licence, marriage cert. Rich's Birth cert., Birth cert. of any children born in the US, two passport pictures, last three years of tax returns, any documents proving me and Rich live in a marriage bond ( IE bank statements, mortgage statements, letter saying we live together etc)
So off I went, to go inside. As this is a federal building I had to go through metal detectors. And Apparently I contain metal? My under wire bra? My shoes? My elastic waste pants? Everything beeped even with the wand. The guard was very surprised... But let me in.
I was told to go upstairs, and check in with the guard there. He took my letter and I was told to sit and wait to be called.
At 12:05pm I was called;-) The lady called for a A. Johanna Grunberg. She did not want to try to both the pronunciation of my first name. Wimp! People do it all the time, and she, who work with foreigners ALL DAY LONG didn't dare to..
Anyhow: I was led to a room, told to put my stuff down, raise my Right hand and swear to tell the truth.
Then she went through my application, asked to make sure all the answers given there were the same I gave orally.
Then she told me it was time for the Test.
She asked:
What is an amendment?
Who vetoes laws?
What is the capitol of your state?
What do you pledge allegiance to during 'Pledge of allegiance'?
Who was the first President?
She then handed me a paper and asked me to read the highlighted sentence.
"Where is the White House?"
I was then given a piece of paper and a pen and was told to write:
"The White House is in Washington D.C."
Then she went through some other questions, about me personally. Was I still married to the same American as the one that sponsored my green card? Was I willing to swear the oath, did I understand the oath, etc.
Because I have chosen to add back my maiden name into my name, the processing will take longer for me. The name change takes 4-6 months. They do try to do it faster. But.. That is how far away my Swearing in ceremony is. Until then, I am not an American. But I did pass the test. So that is all clear!
Oh, and did I mention that she never asked to look at ANY of the documents I brought? Only my drivers licence and the green card..
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