Lesley Carhart 
If you have just one good hopeful vibe to spare, I could really use it.
With that, the ball is in other peoples' courts. My documentation is with the lawyers and I have more lawyers appointments next month. ACS assessment is in. Half my stuff is packed. Realtor is retained. ILETS is scheduled. Requests for references are out. Now, I wait for weeks and try to not have an aneurysm. At least I'll be in New Zealand for the next two! See some of you there. I promise to try to be happier and peppier and give a good talk.
Viraptor@hacks4pancakes have you looked at the format/expectations of IELTS yet? If you haven't, I'd really recommend getting familiar with it. You can lose points by giving the right answer the non-standard way. My British wife scored lower in writing than my ESL self.
@viraptor I have a book and I have been watching a lot of TikToks and YouTube videos. Most say use a simple and direct answer to avoid filler words.
@hacks4pancakes I was taught "simple, but not too simple". As in normal, but find an excuse to talk about something in the past and future and throw in an "although" or "however" at least once. Because various tenses and compound sentences are things to check and they won't go out of their way to lead you there.