What we're both doing

It has occurred to me that I have been telling you all a lot about what I'm doing and not very much, if anything, about what Daniel is doing. Furthermore, I realized that most of you care greatly about how he is, too. So....
I have been gone for a week and 3 days, and Daniel has actually packed a lot in. He finished packing up our house, sold most of our stuff, moved boxes over to a garage, cleaned the house and moved out. He did this, by the by, limping half the weekend because he'd hurt himself walking back from the truck-hire place seeing as he couldn't find anyone to help him... (see? He really does need me...)
He stayed with a friend of ours from my old job for all of last week, which was great because even though our computer is packed up, he was able to get on messenger every night and one time even use a web-cam so I could SEE him... It was the BEST thing EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He then went down to Canberra for the weekend to see his family, which I am told was very nice. Apparently, he showed them all the house I am staying in and the area I'm staying in, on Google Earth.
He will now stay with one of his work-mates who lives up close to his work so he doesn't have to spend all his money on petrol.
Daniel will be heading down to the American Embassy in the city on Thursday Morning (Immigration Day at the Embassy) to give them a letter from my employer saying that I have full-time work. Our understanding is that is all the Embassy needs to finalize his green-card. So, he'll go down there, give them the letter, hopefully be able to be interviewed that same day, and hopefully be approved by the end of Thursday (with his visa coming in the registered post Friday or Monday). THAT is a best case scenario, so if any of you are praying or wishing for us, hope for THAT!! I won't go into the ways in which this plan can go wrong as I don't really want to put all the negative possibilities out there. Suffice it to say, all of them involve it taking a LOT longer. As it is, we're hoping Daniel can join me in just under a month. So all, keep your FINGERS CROSSED!!!!!
As for me, I have to leave the wonderful house I've been staying in. I've been staying with my friend, Desmond, in a part of Queens called Astoria. It is really pretty and he lives in a big free standing house with a porch and garden all around and a well in the front yard - you know, one of those really cute ones with the white little roof?? They have a guest room and everything, with a whole bed and a door. It is so sweet. However, the landlady who lives downstairs is REALLY fussy about people staying. She doesn't like them having guests all the time because it runs up the water bill (apparently she yelled at one of them that the water bill was so much last month... but THAT wasn't me, I wasn't even HERE last month) and she keeps getting paranoid that they are going to start sub-letting... She seems not all that nice. So, I have to leave.
I am being saved by my mother's friend, Michele. She has a place up the top of Manhattan and I was going to house-sit for her when she went over-seas in about a month and a half, but due to my predicament, she has insisted I stay on her couch in the mean-time, which is REALLY sweet of her (she only met me on Wednesday). This is really good, however, because it means I can sort-of settle. I'll be in the same place for the next couple of months and I can get into a routine. So, YAY!!!!!
Anyway, I'll keep you all posted.
Much love, as ALWAYS!!!!!
Love, Taliesen.