My first blog...yikes.

I'm currently in the process of applying for a 2-year residence permit in Sweden to move in with my sweet Swedish sea captain M. I work offshore as an environmental consultant and when we met on board in early 2009 it was all downhill from there. We're hoping the paperwork will be approved within the next few months and I'll be able to move to the beautiful island farm where he lives in the Stockholm Archipelago. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world!

To get this moving-to-Sweden timeline started, my permit application was received at the Embassy of Sweden in Washington DC on January 25, 2010, and I was interviewed at the Consulate of Sweden in Houston on February 16th. Now comes the waiting game...my Swede and I will be working on separate ships over the next six weeks, and unfortunately we have become experts at being away from each other. I have my fingers crossed that Sweden will be welcoming another blonde within the next few months.

In the meantime I'm going to try out this blogging thing...they say all the kids are doing it nowadays so I suppose I should give it a shot. As a disclaimer I will say that I'll most likely stray from the topic of Sweden into random stories about my previous wanderings as a nomadic wildlife biologist, homeschooled eldest-of-seven, and Peace Corps Guatemala volunteer. We'll see where it ends up!