life in california

[opheliadrowned3]

So my trip to california is not working out the way i had expected it to. im trying not to be frustrated about it anymore because ive dealt with too much frustration this week. so basically my plan has been to stay in los angeles and get out to lake tahoe and see priya on monday...hang out with her there and then go out to san francisco for a few days with her before i left. we even planned on trying to rent a car in san francisco to drive out to the redwoods. but now im still in los angeles and now i dont think im going to lake tahoe at all. so on the monday that i was planning to fly out (she gave me the ok the night before to come) priya found out that the place shes staying at is for rent and shes not even supposed to be there. (her boss said she could stay there but the landlady doesnt know priya is there) she found a place, but its for august 1st, and the people said she could move in, but shed have to pay 50 dollars a day to stay there. but she complained and they said that she could move in early for free...so basically everyday since monday ive been waiting for things to get cleared so i can go out. i though by wednesday everything would be fine...but finally priya said that all she has to do is sign the lease and she can move in and i should be able to come on thursday. she also told me that she doenst know about her work scheduale, but i figured if its incovenient i could just hang out at tahoe city for a while until shes free. sooo...i booked a flight to reno (ummm...taking a bus would have taken me about 18 hours, so i decided to shell out the 150 bucks and fly out there...reno is like 30 miles from the lake) so i take a cab to the airport and its about an hour before my flight and priya messaged me saying it turns out she doenst have a place to stay and that she didnt give me the official ok to come. but weve been talking all week and she had finally told me thursday was ok. i guess it turns out that she had found out the night before that she has to pay another 2000 dollars that she doesnt have for the place (security deposit or something) and that if i fly there, i dont have a place to stay. soo...i kind of starting freaking out (aka pacing around the whole airport, not knowing what the hell to do). i didnt think i had a choice to not go because i already payed for the flight. but finally i talked to the desk people at the boarding desk and it turns out that i could get a full refund if i cancelled my ticket. so thats what i did, literally five minutes before boarding. they had to get my luggage out of the plane and i just took a taxi back to mariah's. i was thinking of just trying to rent something out there, but lake tahoe is an expensive touristy area and the weekend was coming up so i didnt even know if i could find/afford anything. so its been a week of waiting around to leave los angeles (as much as im having fun here theres a limit to what i can do around here without a car) and then having to last minute find out that i have to cancel my flight. i'm not mad at priya, because shes been dealing with the stress of possibly being homeless and it's not like she knew that all these places to live at she had backed up were going to fail. i just feel bad that she has to deal with all this crap right now. sooo im giving up on the lake tahoe plan and hoping that i at least will spend a day in san francisco (i was hoping not by myself...but im thinking ill end up having to rent a hostel and staying by myself because i dont even know if priya will be able to meet up with me there)
staying in l.a. this weekend will be actually pretty cool though, cuz mariah's roomate a.j. has a birthday saturday and theyre planning to go to universal studios on sunday, so im excited about that.
this has certainly not turned out to be what my vacation would be like...but right now i'm glad not to be homeless or having to spend 100 dollars a night for a hotel. i still wish i could be able to see lake tahoe, ive heard it's beautiful there :(