Its taking over my life!!!!

[kerry19]

I swear im not being melodramatic....... im not! Its just this whole visa application is effecting everything!

Such as:

its my two boys birthdays coming up in the next couple of weeks, so today off i went to a toy shop. i walked round and round with the trolley looking at things thinking nope that wont work in aus or nope thats too bulky to take. i ended up walking out with a colouring set, a board game and a hoola hoop!

I have to start looking at secondary schools here for my oldest boy although hopefully we wont be here but on the off chance that we are i have to

Im constantly looking on realestate.com.au to see whats available to rent even though i know that i cant do anything about it until im there but i want to know what we can afford.

Me and the hubby talking about Perth areas, schools, jobs, flights, what to take, what not to take and not much else!

Does anyone else feel like this? i feel that im going crazy waiting for the skills assessment to come back and doing as much research as possible......

Maybe i should just have a little break from it all...... but in all honesty i dont think i can!!! ( its the control freak in me! lol)

[asaandanirish]

DITTO!!!!

completely agree, infact...today we just bought a whole new 'glasswear' collection that we totally like to ship to oz....was that wise????maybe not but we want it for our new house in auz....hahahaha still waiting for visa granted...
you cant get worse than that lol... well i love the glasses!!!

[kerry19]

hahahaha! Ive just been looking at dining room tables and my hubbys just had an absolute fit, then i was looking at outdoor furniture and he looked over my shoulder and i heard him mutter "for gods sake we are not even there yet"

Theres nothing wrong with getting excited is there! lol

Right im off to look at glasswear just to wind him up

[sadiesmum]

This rings a bell! I definitely started shopping for summer clothes as we will be in the tropics Queensland! I've added an email alert for new properties that are added to realestate website so every morning I can check what properties have come on the market and save them in hope that they will still be available to view when we get there!

Luckily my OH is as excited as me so we are both constantly saying "when we are in Oz" before everything! Weirdly though it still feels like a dream that will never happen, I suppose I wont believe it until Im there!

[truebeliver]

im sure lots of people will understand where your coming from kerry, im similar....a control freek like to know the ins and outs of everything......i only did about 6weeks of research and my brain was frazzled..... when my oh said he didnt want to go i was gutted but relieved at the same time cos i didnt have to put myself through the constant thinking.... it was wierd i actually felt like the pressure had been took of me i now realise i was overdoing it but its hard not to as knowledge is power......id just say take it easy maybe have a couple of days off and a couple of days on HTH hun i sympathise with you x

[carolinemc]

All this sounds so familiar...glad to see we are not the only crazy Australia obsessive people out there

[jamesnparry]

Luckily we are both (DH and I) on the same page when it comes to emigrating. Can you imagine what it must have been like for those who emigrated before the web was around?? They'd have to have relied on out of date books or chinese whispers of a better life..... I have researched the backside off every aspect of emigrating... school system; realestate; medicare; diac....etc. etc. I could set up as a relocation agent tomorrow - there is no stone that I have not turned over... at least twice. I'm stock piling shorts and t shirts for the girls, as well as swimming stuff. Every purchase has to pass the 'will it be useful in / will we take it to, australia test'. We watch any programme on tv that has the vaguest link to oz... police shows, cookery shows.... I look at ABC oz every day to monitor what crime is happening in what part of queensland. There is not, and has not been, a day that has gone by in the last 18 months when I have not been on the web researching or checking something related to emigrating. So, I ask again... what on earth did people do before the www????

[kerry19]

im also only buying things now that we can take with us and i havent got my visa yet!!! ive done car bootsales lately, selling off all the things in my garage that i havent seen for years lol It all goes in the "Australia pot" i dont know what im going to do about my oldest sons birthday, he wants an x box but i dont think they work there do they?? some thing about it being a different region......

[jamjar]

Glad I am not the only one, I search for houses to buy every day even though I know it will be a yr after we move before we can even think of buying. And dont get me started on the garden furnitire LOL

[kerry19]

seriously though..... is garden furniture more expensive in Australia cos ive had my eye on some in home base.........and im taking a container over so i might as well fill it to the rafters!!! lol