I just expired!

Oi!
I just found out that I expired on April 24th!

My resident alien card did, anyway. Oh foo! Now I've got to hustle down to the busiest (no parking anywhere) part of Chicago to get renewed. Dang! I hope they don't slap the cuffs on me when I get there...I did enter the country legally after all.
I took the resident alien card out of it's usual stashed-away-to-not-get-lost place and put it right in the corner of my dresser mirror where it would remind me, too. Guess the week has been a little hectic--do 'ya think the immigration peeps will accept that as an excuse? Erg! Now I'm all paranoid.
I need to go fish around at their website and see what's up and find out too if they have a one-stop shop where I can register then get on the wait list to become half American (well fully here, but Canadian when in Canada). To think I was dissing my brother for doing the same. This past presidential election convinced me to give up something that I been quite proud to be for four decades plus. George W. Bush the motivator...who would have thought.
Have to take care of this stuff next week as we all know gov't offices keep banker's hours. (Is that phrase even relevant anymore?)

Big weekend comin' up in my little life. Concerts by my son's choir (they are doing a school tour today--performing at 4 area grade schools & spouse is a chaperone--probably very little chance of him getting bonked in the face, tho'.) basically all day/night Saturday. I get to do my favourite thing--stay backstage and be a "kid catcher," in case anyone swoons. I'm hoping for some good shots with the new camera --try to do something different with the composition.
Anyway, I'm rambling here.

I think I'm getting sorta well--slept good last p.m.--a rarity. I may have made the transition to getting to bed before 4 a.m. as I've done it all week. My goal is 2 am at the latest so I can be half-way on "normal" time.

So everyone, hope you have a delightful or productive (or both) weekend!

See 'ya next time,

--Cyn

 

Comments

[Cyn]

I'm humble, yet you mock me!

Do you realize being the children of immigrants, we are both neither here nor there?
We are no longer Canadian and IMO, not ever really going to be real Americans, no matter what the paperwork says.

[Her Brother]

Yeah, to think you were dissing your brother...