It's All Right

News this good is too tough to hold in. I was going to wait until we had a photo to post but decided that I had to tell you all first! Ok, not quite first first but first online. Unless you follow me on twitter @kablally but definitely the first blog post about it!

Ok so what is it? I assume you already know you loyal readers... we got our new visa! So that means we are sorted for 12 more months. Which means there's plenty of time for our residency to be processed without us having to leave the country at any stage (except when we choose to).

We haven't gotten our passports back with the sticker in them yet but we got the notification email. Good enough for me!

What better way to celebrate than to welcome my parents into New Zealand this weekend and tour around a little bit, lapping up every bit of beauty we can handle! Then maybe we should have a BBQ celebration next weekend. Get one in before summer decides to wind down.

So the moral(s) of the story are:

• If you want something, go for it. Try hard and do your best to get it. Chances are you will get it.
• Also, patience. It goes a long way when you can muster enough.
• Act like you've already got what you want so that you're ready. Don't waste much time thinking about what to do if it doesn't work.
• Give yourself over to the fact that you can't control it all but work on what you can control.
• Don't panic about it. Just do what you can do, the rest will work itself out.

I don't know what to do first - pop some bubbly, start shopping to get settled into our house, start projects around the house, book flights to Vancouver in June, cancel our MSP, figure out what winter veg to put in the garden, get season tickets to Taranaki rugby, put winter credit on our power account.... and the list continues! I think I will start by just smiling. And maybe hugging Dustin and shedding a happy tear or two...

And spinning a favourite tune....

"We are blood cells
Alive in
The blood stream
And beating heart of the country..."

-Frank Turner