we made friends!

i never realized how integral the allmighty internet was to my existence. until i have tried to live without it for approximately 6 days. oh, what a painful blow to my self sufficient existence! i was actually looking forward to being a bit removed right at first from all types of external stimuli, a bit "unplugged" if you will, and definitely did not consider myself to be one of those people who anxiously stalks Wi-fi like the lion stalks the antelope. but i have been shown differently. i did not anticipate this, but i am now craving the internet like nothing i have ever experienced. and i thought coffee withdrawal was bad!

as you may have guessed, fiance and i are still without the internet, and i am again writing to you from his office. i mean, which is cool. but i dislike blogging in an environment where i am not entirely comfortable. i keep looking around the corner, waiting for some employee to pop out and yell at me. i cant wait to curl up in front of our computer with a glass of wine and some music and write to my little hearts content.

but until then, here we are. i hope everyone had a delightful weekend. surprisingly, i did. and yes, i was surprised that i enjoyed myself this weekend. mom and dadcagg arrived in new mexico with miss scarlett around 8am on friday and i met them and miguel up in the mountains for dinner. lovely! the altitude is screwing with my body just a bit, but i'll adjust. after that, the four of us retired to our incredible apartment and plotted where all of our belongings would live.

on saturday morning we made the trek to abq to drop them at the airport and then explored the big city and did some shopping. i am now the proud owner of very intense hiking boots. mike is so proud. another thing that i have discovered since i have been out here is that i may have to get over my intense hatred of walmart, because that is literally all that is out here. crap! and i hate walmart. like i really hate it. for a person with anxiety disorder, such as your favorite andiepants, walmart is wayyyyyyy too much stimulation. rows and racks of crap that no one actually needs, children screaming and running away from their teenage mothers, someone always paging someone else over the damn intercom. it is terrible. but again, i'll adjust.

saturday night we were invited to a bbq in the capitan mountains. so so so pretty. and there i got to bond with a girl and her mother and ask all sorts of the questions that you don't really think about at first. such as, where the hell do i go to get my hair cut? the doctor? yoga? etc etc etc. lots of thanks to them for showing us a lovely time.

that brings us to sunday. oh my least favorite day. sunday is more depressing than a flower with no petals. the gloom and doom of the work week overshadows any fun that one could attempt to have on sunday. but! we took sunday by its unruly horns and decided to have fun anyway. we set about the task of breaking in my brand new super duper boots by doing a "small, short, flat hike." what mike ended up leading me on was a trail going down a steep rock face. thank you, hunny. after i recovered from my near death experience, we went into the most beautiful mountain town and strolled, running into one of his own friends and getting invited over their house. friends! woo hoo!

now the preparation for the work week begins. ew. but i'm looking forward to taking this week and setting up our little southwestern home.

until next time,

be thankful,
andie.