Craziness in Pittsburgh

This morning I realized how boring our blog is becoming. The problem is there isn't much going on. Julianna is growing, I'm working full time, and Jon is in school full time. All that makes for a pretty dull blog. Sure I could post pictures of Julianna all the time and talk about her newest accomplishments, like her rolling over for the first time on Saturday and doing it three times, not just once, but I have a blog just for her so she doesn't need to take over this one.

So I was trying to decide what to write about and update you all on and I thought, why not talk about the one thing that is driving me nuts! The G20 Summit!

For those of you who are unaware, the G20 Summit has decided to grace the good 'ole city of Pittsburgh with its presence. Now to many this might sound like its an honor to have the president of the United States and other big name people here, but its not! It's probably one of the more annoying things in life. For starters, this is how the local news stories go on tv:

G20 Summit
Something about a Shooting Somewhere
G20 Summit
Weather
G20 Summit
Steelers
G20 Summit
H1N1 Virus Updates
G20 Summit

It's been like this for MONTHS! There is nothing new for them to report about the G20 Summit! We have heard for months about how they are closing down the city, so people are off work for 2 days and colleges are closed for 2 days, of course I don't care since I still have to go to work, give me 2 days off and I might be happier with the G20 Summit being here. They put in a $400,000 security radio system thing so all security on the rivers, in the air, in vehicles, and on foot can communicate with one another, which as of yesterday, was NOT working properly and they are unsure if they will continue to use said radio system after the Summit. Now I would say that was a BIG waste of money. On top of all this, turns out the government isn't coughing up the money ahead of time for the security they have pulled into the city, which means the city has to pay the bill and wait to be reimbursed. Some how the tax payers are going to end up paying for something related to this G20 Summit which NONE of asked for to be here. Oh yea, and it looks like we are at war since they pulled all the local National Guard units in to patrol. It's insane and if I remember correctly, you better stay off the rivers or you'll be arrested!

Saturday could NOT come fast enough. But sadly, I realize that for the next week or so the news will continue how it has with stories after stories of how the Summit went, what was discussed, where they stayed, how the visit was...etc....The news channels really know how to make you sick of events in your area.

But in other news, Julianna does get her 3 month pictures taken Friday. Hopefully all goes well! And Julianna is finally sleeping through the night. It's wonderful!