a life update if you will

So we are (in theory) signing the lease at the new place in 2 weeks. I'm excited to get started moving and i'm getting rid of a lot of stuff. do you want books? i have books you can have. lots of them. I'm also excited that i'll be able to sleep in an extra half-hour in the morning. woot woot!

we were supposed to have a stupidly busy day at work today only someone dropped the ball and we sat on stand by. all day. princess cant handle that kind of boredom. speaking of work, if you've been watching the news at all you'll have seen that our dear govt doesnt have a FY2011 budget yet and will run out of money on friday at midnight if they haven't figured something out. this means that if nothing happens, the govt basically shuts down. that includes the DoE. and state parks and the vets admin and pretty much everything except the military. what does this mean for me? well, if there is a shutdown (which best case scenario wont happen, worst case scenario would last at maximum 3 week) then i have no work to do and cant go to my office since it's in the compound. the silver lining however is that thanks to my contract the company has to pay me anyway. so at best i could have a 3 week paid vacation. while i would LOVE this obviously, no one wants this to happen bc it's going to screw other people. a lot of other people. so who knows what's going to happen.

so i had a battle with expedia yesterday bc the stranger and i decided to get a bitchin hotel room for our weekend in pburgh since its our anniversary and all that romantic garbage and we're going to see Tosh.0. the moral of the story is that expedia screwed up the dates on our reservation and then wouldnt change or refund it. i tried calling customer service and got no help. i tried emailing customer service and got a canned response. at this point i lost my shit and went to twitter. after about 10 annoyed tweets expedia contacted ME, listened to my complaint, and fixed it. while i'm glad they finally fixed everything, i'm really annoyed that it took bitching on twitter for anything to happen. but i guess that social media really is the way of the future and all that garbage.

i'm still totally in awe over the gaga show. the new video is weird as hell, and yet, not surprising. but i'd go again, if anyone out there wants to go!

much love and sunshine