Waiting Game

Hey Everyone-

Well the good news is that I no longer have to apply for a work visa to work in Ireland.... that process was crazy anyhow. After much research, many calls and pulling about 1/4 of my hair out I finally figured out just what it is that I DO have to do to work in Ireland. You see, once it became a new ,Ireland decided to revamp their entire process of getting people into the country to work. To learn this new process has NOT been easy, you see, for a while, the Irish themselves didn't even know it. So, I was sent to the same 3 websites by 4 different people for the information, however all 3 had the same NON-UPDATED, WRONG information. And no one on the phone had any clue of what i had to do, apparently the website knows all. Well... i was finally told that now i have to apply for a work permit. So most of the things i hunted in a panic for, the things i drove to my Alma mater to get, and the stuff my parents lovingly turned their house upside down to find all turned out to be not at all needed for this new application process. aaaah well.... 'tis in the past.

I have officially applied for my work permit as of Thursday the 4th and now its just the waiting game of up to 4 weeks for everything to get processed. More relaxation, emails, reading and trying to make ourselves useful around here at Mike's parents house.

Lessons to be learned: look on the bright side, stay organized, do what you gotta do, and stay around calm and optimistic people when you have to do all these things that will inevitably make you insane at least for short periods of time.

Thanks everyone for helping to keep us sane!