Though writing this blog a bit later but I am quite sure the emotions of the blog and thoughts of the moments will not be lost for a long time....
I still remember when I saw the paper. It was a Wednesday or Thrusday in Mid August. I had just come from work. For some reason which I do not remember now, we were not expecting to see the the paper come so early. Rose had already gone to TX, and I had already got rid of Nimit (the menace). The house was all to myself. I was in process of vacating the house in a week or so and then for last 2-3 weeks stay at Castaic with Maa and Daddy. I think they had not arrived. And there was a sort of happiness all around. AND YES HOW CAN I FORGET I JUST HAD ENDED BUYING THE HOUSE.
So in a word there was all happiness all around Planning for marraige, parents are coming to visit and I will be staying few more days in the hovel before moving to better things.
So here I come from work tired and somehow getting myself removed from the work drama, knowing it is going to be a past soon. But still with the horrible 3 months, something worrysome as I still needed the EAD card to become really free.
Here I come to slightly clean house, especially as Tony had fianlly removed his junk.
I do not remember why did I even go to open the mail. And with the fall coolness when I opened the letter to see a USCIS letter, the first reaction to me was there was someother request. Note a week earlier we got or had to apply to say that we had moved to Dallas.
So instead of another letter from USCIS and with the long drawn summer issue of Work trouble and getting 2-3 months of preparing the paperwork, I with trepidation opened the letter. And there in that was my green card.
I still remember how happy I was to get it. Fianlly free from the stress of what happns if I loose job. Finally free after all my mess with USCIS - the F1 rejection and H1B issue then the job loss before getting married.
It was a great and happy day. And with other things falling in place it all was icing on the top.
THough I still was un-prepared for the black day that was to come, I was seeing the good days that lay ahead. Which today when I think about now, DID SURELY MATERIALISE.
I still remember when I saw the paper. It was a Wednesday or Thrusday in Mid August. I had just come from work. For some reason which I do not remember now, we were not expecting to see the the paper come so early. Rose had already gone to TX, and I had already got rid of Nimit (the menace). The house was all to myself. I was in process of vacating the house in a week or so and then for last 2-3 weeks stay at Castaic with Maa and Daddy. I think they had not arrived. And there was a sort of happiness all around. AND YES HOW CAN I FORGET I JUST HAD ENDED BUYING THE HOUSE.
So in a word there was all happiness all around Planning for marraige, parents are coming to visit and I will be staying few more days in the hovel before moving to better things.
So here I come from work tired and somehow getting myself removed from the work drama, knowing it is going to be a past soon. But still with the horrible 3 months, something worrysome as I still needed the EAD card to become really free.
Here I come to slightly clean house, especially as Tony had fianlly removed his junk.
I do not remember why did I even go to open the mail. And with the fall coolness when I opened the letter to see a USCIS letter, the first reaction to me was there was someother request. Note a week earlier we got or had to apply to say that we had moved to Dallas.
So instead of another letter from USCIS and with the long drawn summer issue of Work trouble and getting 2-3 months of preparing the paperwork, I with trepidation opened the letter. And there in that was my green card.
I still remember how happy I was to get it. Fianlly free from the stress of what happns if I loose job. Finally free after all my mess with USCIS - the F1 rejection and H1B issue then the job loss before getting married.
It was a great and happy day. And with other things falling in place it all was icing on the top.
THough I still was un-prepared for the black day that was to come, I was seeing the good days that lay ahead. Which today when I think about now, DID SURELY MATERIALISE.
