Not been many photos taken recently, dunno why, thats just the way it is, still, have plenty of news tho.
Now with Norway not being part of the EU i need a visa (residents permit) to be here, now since when i first arrived i didn't really have any reason to be here other than luuurve, (and you can't get a visa for that, i checked) i had to apply for a residence permit based on employment, I renewed the visa 5 years later in 2003 on the same grounds. Now roll forward to the current renew point of January 2008 and hey waddaya know i'm married to a Norwegian citizen and we have a child together, do i still need a Visa, yup, you betcha.
It gets better still as my current visa doesn't give grounds for me to get permanent residency.... nope, for that i need to change my current visa form being a residents permit based on my employment to being residents permit based on me moving here on grounds of a family member(?), that of course costs money and needs to be renewed every year, but after three years i could then apply for permanent residency and never need to renew anything ever again.
The cost of renewing my current employment based permit, just in case you're wondering is....zippo. So here i am after 10 years of living in Norway married to a Norwegian and i'm still here on a Visa based on my employment.....ahhh bureaucracy gotta love it.
New flats all round... got a date for us to get a sneak preview of our new flat. The 4th March we get to see what we have actually bought and write down all the things that are wrong with it so they can fix 'em before we hand over a big wad of cash and get the keys on April 8th all we've seen so far is an A5 plan drawing, gulp.
So going to be a very busy few weeks getting our current abode ship shape and ready for selling, which i plan on doing just after Easter. Market has slowed quite a bit here recently but i don't anticipate it being too much of a problem and expect this pace to go with 2 or 3 weeks of being on the market.....we'll see.
Went round to see Martinus' folks new pad last week, which is oddly just up the road from where we are moving to. They too moved from an 1890's building to a brand spanking new one, anybody'd think we were copying, we've even chosen the same kitchen cupboards and flooring as then too.
Maud and Martinus discuss the pro's and cons of moving while munching their way through some grapes.
Silje was working the evening shift today so Maud was stuck at home with me. She insists on sitting in her chair while you prepare her grub so inevitably sometimes gets a bit bored.
I'm waiting
I'm still waiting...
Now listen if you put that camera down and got on with cooking, it might be better for all of us.
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