Moving

Pardon the quietness on the blog, I am packing to move back to California and my parents just arrived (arrove*) yesterday. In less than a day, we have:

- Gone out to eat (Vietnamese food).
- Had coffee (Starbucks, which my mother was super happy about after days of crap instant coffee).
- Had budae-jjigae (부대찌개), with hot dogs and Shin ramyun (신라면) in it.
- Had Spam musubi.
- Consumed about 1.5 gallons of water.
- Inhaled about 3/4 bottle of wine (Cotes du Rhone).
- Ingested about 1/2 bottle of scotch (Glenlivet Nadurra).

The parents stopped by Chaco and camped before they came to Albuquerque, because they're nature people that way.

More packing, a little road trip, and an even littler road trip coming up in the next few days before the big road trip back home. I'll probably post random photos from my phone while we're away.

It's going to be a weekend of saying goodbye to New Mexico, which isn't going to be as easy as I had previously thought.

* For William.

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International Banking?

If anyone knows about personal international banking, please contact me. I need to figure out how to deposit and access money in a foreign country ... hopefully into my American checking account.

Why does everything have to be so hard?

On a side note, I'm pissed off at Chase for their idiotic (non-free) new rules for checking accounts. I miss WaMu.

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Two Fools Farewell

The movie is dangerously close to wrapping, with just an odd bit or bob every now and again, popping up for us to tackle.

That fact, along with the fact that people are starting to leave the facility, means that we took a long, leisurely lunch today at Two Fools. I've been to that bar several times since I first wrote about it, and I still like it (that's saying a lot).

Lunch was fun, with pub grub (Scotch eggs, corned beef and cabbage, Irish stew) a couple drinks (Guinness and other assorted beer for the boys, a hot toddy for me-- it's cold today, don't judge), and lots of commiserating about our lives (or lack thereof) over the past year.

I will actually miss things about Albuquerque when I leave.

(My hot toddy! That's my work husband and his Guinness, while he looks at the drinks menu. He might have been contemplating a scotch or something.)

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