MY WORK VISA GOT APPROVED TODAY!!!

( and now you shall feel as happy as i ... )

There goes Al Sharpton with his "me me me me me me" shit again.
stfu.

I'm crying hard now.
He was my very first crush :(

Threw some Seattle pics up from our whopping two day trip there:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/margaretblue/sets/72157618474423707/


Experience Music Project & Scifi museum, Needle, Amazon HQ (they were ridiculously strict about not having cameras inside and at the meeting, wtf. for a bunch of "laid back" people they sure are uptight), The Shins show, and we keep staying at cool hotels lately.
They're all iphone photos so don't get too excited now.

Oh, and thanks to those that ran call-backup duty during project Victor Needs A Date Quickly. He got laid and has some girl that's going to come visit him in San Fran. lol.
Memorial Day weekend was fuuuun.
Nico's extending his stay an extra month. All those on pregnancy-scare-hotline duty can start manning the phones. You know how psychotic I get when regular access to the vajayjay has been granted.

okay back to work.

Old Spock vs New Spock

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Okay, most of the Paris pics from last month's trip are up here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/margaretblue/sets/72157617845351801/

The Seattle trip was fruitful and fun, though the rain wreaked havoc on my hair. Suppose I should eventually upload those pics as well when I have time.

We did the group thing at this slick ass movie theater we've become addicted to here and saw Trek. So good and campy! But we're seeing it in a "normal" theater next weekend because I think the cheesecake and beer may have had me biased during viewing.

The boy bought me a MacBook and though I'm grateful and I love it I'm scared I'll abuse it like I have the other three lappies before it. haha.
Any and all Mac tips appreciated. Our family's first computer was an Apple II E, but shit has seriously been overhauled since then. I find myself more inside the terminal because it's FreeBSDbased (who knew?) and I had gotten into OpenBSD a bit as I was leaving Houston then became obsessed in Portland. Interface-wise, I'm like... WTF?!
But damn everything is so pretty and runs like a dream. Facial recognition is awesome, man.

Made the boss cry over strawberry margaritas as he actually pleaded and tried to deal with me not to leave. It was cool! Okay, so I started crying too. I dunno, I'm gonna miss this bunch, they're all smart (okay, except one). I like calling everything a "Transition to Power" now. I've been giving mini seminars on board design and layout and getting some folks up to speed on my own obsessive compulsive brand of QA testing. It's like breaking up with a guy you love, because you're going to join the Peace Corps or something... confusion and hurt on their end for a bit as they think it's something they did wrong, then a rush to make sure everything is taken care of and he has everything he needs to go on without you.

Going to Austin again sometime around the end of June to see Maddy and Christin, get into trouble, shop and trying to burn off some accumulated airline miles until my work visa gets approved.

Life is still weird and good around here.
Yours the same?

- About to have lunch with my boss, in which he will try to convince me to stay. I hate PF Chang's, but it's the company favorite for some godawful reason. If he wants to get me in an acquiescing mood, he should try Chuck E Cheese.

-Yesterday I got a delivery confirmation that the book had been delivered to my neighbor. I sent it as a gift and didn't sign it so hopefully he'll just see the book and think that its his order. Thanks for ya'lls help on that. I knew I would give him the book, I just didn't know a discrete way of going about it. As Queen of the Tacky, discretion is not really my forte.

- Tonight is Cirque du Soleil, should be fun. I'm kind of addicted now.
Oh, and happy Easter and Passover and all that crap. My little cousin had the hiccups the whole time during her easter pageant solo. it was cute.

- I'm going to update this weekend, so hold that thought, but I wanted to thank everyone who helped me in the other huge decision too. Think of how even MORE awesome my life would get if I charged you folks with all my major decisions? So far so good.

So I just got home two hours ago. Mae drove me home and brought in a package that was on the porch. I unearthed a bottle of wine I brought home and we finished filling her in about my trip and her own generally fab week. I also told her to tear into the package as she was asking what book I ordered. She reads it for a while and then reads some pages to me and shows me some of the pictures (which are SO ME).

Well, turns out the package was for my perpetually single neighbor, the slightly effeminate youth minister.
He's keeps to himself mostly, but he's really fun and we met when I lived in the house behind where I live now, 8 years ago. A lot of you have met him as he's come to a few gatherings at the house bringing some choice microbrews. So we all kinda suspected, but he's a very private and accepting man, and is always platonic with all of my guests.

So anyway, this book is kind of a drag queen manual.
And it turns out it was addressed to him, I got it mixed up with one of my own purchases.
Because our number addresses are the same and he lives on a weird side street, we're always getting each others' mail.

So...
Do I keep the book and act like it never came?
or
Do I drop the book off at his house?

Keep: He doesn't have to know, and I like the book, and I don't have to write this big awkward note that says oops sorry I opened your shit, I promise not to tell your church. The receipt says he only paid $7.45 for the book anyway, OMG am I going to hell? I had my mail stopped the day I left, so the book's been on my porch for 11 days. I imagine that to be the big reason he's intensely private, as any smell of this sort of thing would have him fired in a heartbeat

Drop off: He's not home at the moment, and we are rarely home at the same time, so it would be a drop-off situation. Also, his one church is fairly conservative, but he really loves youth work and he's tremendously awesome with kids. .So, I would have to write aforementioned awkward letter. He's gotten a bunch of my crazy packages for years, from gifts of naughtiness to amazon mixups, but he's never OPENED any, nor have I until now.

So what would you do? Justify it!
Damn. Did I mention this is a really good book? *G*

Oh shit! Amanda palmer just pulled ducking RITA onstage and she's singing and playing ukelele as usual. OUR Rita!

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WTH?! I just went to take out the trash and BAM. Snow. It wasn't even cold this week. So much for shopping in Nashville today *whimper*.

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