apartment hunting

wow. nobody will rent an apartment to someone with 4 cats. not that i'm particularly surprised, but even if i offered to pay a higher deposit (which would make sense to me)... still, not even a hesitation. no, no, no. the really sad part is, you can't tell that i have 4 cats. really. you can definitely tell i have one because hobbes introduces himself the second you walk in the door, and plays the host the entire time anyone is in my house, but the other three flee at the sound of the door opening, and tremble under the bed until the people go away. if only i didn't have this weird desire to be honest...
on a vaguely similar note, there is a new shower in my bathroom. it comes out of the ceiling fan. we put a bucket underneath, and had to empty it multiple times before the maintenance guy came over (we reported it on sunday, but maintenance doesn't work on sunday). so yesterday he spent the day ripping out the ceiling in my bathroom, and now there is a sheet of plastic across the doorway (i'm very glad we have a second bathroom). supposedly, the leak has been repaired (it was a faulty pipe - anyone ever play "water works"?) and now the whole thing needs to dry out so it can be re-ceiled. then re-painted. then who knows what else... see, there are some reasons besides money for me to want to move. of course, michael is still trying to get us to move to colorado with him... and he has invited us to share his place (for $350 a month!!!) but the nearest world market is an hour commute, and, as nice as $350 rent would be, i don't want to spend 2 hours on the road each day. and then there is cousin wil, who will drive a truck down from washington to pick up our stuff for us if we will only move back there...
sigh. if only someone were actively looking for a place for us out here...
so, the impossible has happened, and i have been (dunn dunn-duuuunnnnnnnn) been granted vacation time! i don't have to work again for 6 days, and i very much appreciate it. i might actually get the whole apartment cleaned and organized and even do some cooking between naps. oh, and maybe hang out with shaggy a little bit.
so much nothing to do, so little time.