Sometimes I wish I could just put life on hold and run away around the world for a year like that lady who wrote Eat Pray love did. Sometimes I feel like I've lost or forgotten who I am. And I don't know how to get me back.


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I'm sorry I have dropped off the face of the planet. Moving and unpacking and work issues and traveling has caught up with me and I really have just had no desire to write at all. And I don't think things are going to calm down anytime soon, so please be with me if I don't update regularly.

I will leave you with this photo:


The dog knows she is in trouble and will not look me in the eye. Hah.


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the moving. oy.

so the moving process is.... going. i won't say well, bc it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing, but overall it wasn't as painful as i anticipated. i LOVE our new place and all the room we have and that it's actually like our first "real home."

however. we currently have no water.

after figuring this out and trying to get the apt people to come all day saturday, they finally came on sunday. during this time we'd been rednecking it up and using gallon jugs of water to do things like flush the toilet. haha. well as it turns out, when they finished building this building, they forgot to put a water meter on our apt. woops. so they gave us the emergency phone number for the utility board on sunday, who we called. as it turns out, they don't consider no runnin water an emergency, to call back during business hours. so we called back today and they cant come out to look at it until TOMORROW. so we've had to plan out when we'll be back across town packing up so that we can shower and stuff there. it's been annoying, but at the same time funny, bc only shit like this happens to zach.

other than that, it really is nice. i'm in love with the view off our balcony and the fireplace, two things i will take photos of once we get everything set up and put away. i fell asleep in the floor infront of the fireplace saturday night like a cat, and i have a feeling that will happen more often than not. and its nice to have the king bed back in my life, bc i can stretch out and not kick anyone in the kidneys. and a seven minute drive to work? yes please!

in other news, the 2 week govt extension is up on Friday and they are still no closer to coming to an agreement. which means i may have a paid vacation coming up. while that would be nice, it's just going to cause more work and longer hours for us later. but who knows. they could fix this and all will be fiine.

anyway. i'm exhausted. pictures to come soon, i promise!

lovelove!

lent

for lent i am giving up:
1. snacking after 8pm. this is very sad as I love ice cream.
2. calling zach a cockbag. not only is it mildly offensive, it's disturbing to picture.

i swear i'm going to post longer posts soon. we have started the epic disaster called Packing. i only threatened to leave zach twice, which i consider a good day.

I can't sleep bc I napped all evening and also bc there is tandem snoring beside me. I'll write a real post about our weekend adventure later, but I wanted to take a minute to be sappy and say that today makes one year with zach. I think that long earns him the use of his real name and not The Stranger, don't you? Everyday I am so thankful that this ridiculous man from Kentucky came into my life.




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I'm moving into this hotel and never coming back.



















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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