Greetings everyone.
A little bit about me and my story...
I am American by birth. My Dad was in the US Navy, but we left the US when I was 7 years old... First to Sweden, onwards by 11 to Surrey, UK. That was 1979/80.
I met my childhood sweetheart in 1982, I was 14/15 and he was 16/17. I was his second girlfriend (all boys school) and he was my first real boyfriend and, well, my first everything. Then, in 1984, my Dad got his orders back, to the Pentagon. Torn away from the love of my life... and life went on... I went back to London to Uni, '86-'89, had lost contact with him by then, he had got a girl pregnant, and a string of disastrous relationships for us both commenced.
By 2007 I had spent 18 years in West Hollywood, CA and, after another nightmare relationship, I moved up to Montana where my Parents had retired (my Dad being from there originally).
I married hastily, in 2008, to a right sodding redneck as it turns out, and started divorcing him early this year.
In February of this year, I was talking to my Mum about my first love, he was such a big part of our lives back then that she and I always would remark on his birthday, so on Feb 16 (his bday) she and I were talking and I said how it was funny, but I could easily imagine my life with him would be so wonderful, how happy I could be etc etc, and she suggested I look for him on Facebook. I had looked for him on myspace a couple of years before and there were too many of his name to figure anything out and I gave up.
On 21 February 2010 I found him on Facebook. I knew it was him right away. He hadn't changed in the slightest, the same twinkle in his eye. I rang my Mum excitedly and told her, adding, "Mum, he STILL has that power over me, if he said jump - I'd say how high?"
Every emotion and feeling I ever had for him came flooding back and then some. (He says the same thing about when he saw my friend request)
We started emailing constantly blah blah blah, until, in March, we decided that we had to be together. We talked for hours on end on web phone (yahoo messenger for voice) up to 8-12 hours a day, foregoing sleep most days...
19 June 2010 I arrived at Heathrow (video available on youtube hahaha) and it was scarcely 6 days later when he took me back to my old house in Esher and proposed...
Fast forward to 30 October, when I, he, his twin sister, and her 16yo twin daughters, arrived like a tornado into Montana (and to think he had never even left England his whole life lol!)
5 November 2010 we got married, a beautiful and sentimental church wedding... that night we stayed at a lovely landmark hotel in Fort Benton... bliss...
7 November 2010 they all left back to London (bloody work)
8 November 2010 I went to the dmv, ss office, and post office to change my name in everything (I didn't have to pay for my passport change as I had only had it since May - YAY!) and the courthouse to file the marriage license.
It took a couple of weeks to get my passport, and then time to change my name with paypal so he could wire me visa money, but, I got it all done...
FINally, the week of Thanksgiving. Tuesday the 23rd, I had done the spouse visa application and paid for it (but I didn't know about priority processing!!!), got my biometrics appointment for that Friday. I was SO happy it was only 2 hours away!! I had NO idea where I would have to go... maybe Washington State?? haha It was Helena, luckily.
So. Friday 26 November. Biometrics, then Post Office to overnight everything.
On Monday 6 December I got an overnight UPS parcel. NO WAY I thought! Well, it was everything back to me with a letter saying they needed a passport sized photo. I know I put one in there, paper-clipped to the app... grrrr... anyway, re-sent everything WITH another photo, they got it Tuesday 7 December. Friday 10 December I got my confirmation email saying that they're processing my application and here we are.
That's me, waiting and scouring this forum since I have literally nothing.to.do.all.day.but.stress.....
So there's me in a nutshell, just wanted to say Hiya to everyone here, and thank you for giving me comfort in the fact that I am not alone.
I am so excited to go back to England, I have always considered it more home than America, and now that I'm back with my Mr Moondreams again, everything will be wonderful, as it was when I was 15... maybe a little more expensive hahaha
So... now I'm off to the Visa board to stress out a little more... but I just wanted to say hiya...
