adjoining rooms are the best, so long as you know the people on the other side (and like them!)

oh, my. let's see...so the drive back to albuquerque seemed faster than the drive to farmington (not sure why...) although, most times once you've arrived somewhere, and are vaguely familiar, it goes more quickly...but let's face it, it was mostly because julie k was intent on breaking the speed barrier (surely i jest). it wasn't a bad drive, not even when she was trying to drive by braille-even though she wasn't 'snoozing' (as one of my other colleagues so hilariously put it) conversation and music-

once we arrived to the abq area, we found a little restaurant-mimi's cafe, and the food was delectable. they had some specials, but the brie...and sabrina's brie and turkey sandwich-i'm pretty sure my mouth was watering! and then sharing the creme brulee cheesecake 3-ways was about right. yum. cute little place to share the comedy with! yes, ma'am! add to it julie k's whistle at certain intervals ( not sure if the audio worked or not, but if it did, you will gather that she was on the spot, and i couldn't figure out how to edit that part out! oops) but every time she does her whistle, it makes me laugh- it kind of reminds me of old kamp days with erin, and when that particular group used whistles to keep track of each other in the dark; path-lighting can be dangerous, even if it is your spiritual gifting...(what?) 

but back to the matter at hand, we finished dinner, and went to check in at the hotel. upon check-in, we asked for an adjoining room, and the gal was like, "oh, we don't have any, they're all assigned." but we'll try to get you close, and they proceeded to talk in some crazy lingo, like 'front-desk-robot-talk' and it was so fast and ping-ponging back and forth, look up, look down, "6th floor?" "no, fifth floor" "oh, wait, i DO have an adjoining room! put them in 511 and 513!" pretty sure we almost wet ourselves (at least me, i shouldn't speak for these two dignified ladies, who would never do anything like potty humor in public). remind me, that brought up something i almost forgot-look for it in a minute. anyhoo, the gal had to take us up to the rooms to unlock the middle doors, but when we got upstairs, the key to the other room wasn't working, so she unlocked one middle door, and had to go back downstairs to retrieve new key cards. it took a minute, but she was excited to do it. (and by excited, i mean at least she did it with a smile!)

so back to the wet myself thing...when we were in the training the previous day, i had gotten to coughing so hard at one point (from something that was said, perhaps), and i'd been drinking lots of water, so you can infer the situation, i made my way toward the restroom with none other than a mini-bottle of water in my hand and i started to guzzle it on the way down the hall, when something hard hit my tooth! WHAT IN THE WORLD, i was thinking about the worm in the bottom of tequila bottles, and thought, 'what nasty thing did the bottlers allow in this bottle! and more to the point, why hadn't i noticed it?!' then i tasted it, halls. yes, i accidentally took the bottle that sabrina had just dropped a halls into. good thing, because i was about to do a spit-take...

ok, and back to our regularly scheduled post, sorry about that, i was just reminded of it...so the door was finally opened, and we got our stuff settled, and then went out to their balcony. no hot tub this night, as it would take too long for bathing suits to dry, and i think sabrina might have gotten a little case of altitude sickness as we were leaving the restaurant. thankfully the meds began to kick in, and by this time she was feeling a bit better. traveling can do a number on you when you're all over the place! anyhoo, we were pulling up stupid videos and laughing and one of my favorite comedians, brian regan-HAHA! so funny! some of the things he comes up with just leave you thinking, "i know who he was talking about!" because we all have those someones in our lives! charlie, a redneck video, muffins, we ranged the gamut!

sleep was good, and we were off to the airport, with a quick detour to starbucks. it got long again...tomorrow i finish with the airport story (which i can finally talk about), and move into the week! sorry 'bout the lack of pics, but deal with it, we're all adults here, and this is not a story-book...

for now, enjoy what's left of the evening, as i prepare for another 'adventure in training'!
julie

it's not really stalking, just checking out the situation!

today i saw the post of a friend of a friend on fb (an acquaintance to me). it said, whistle while you work. what a great notion and cute mental picture when you're thinking 7 dwarves. but it's not as cute when i remember first moving to costa rica and being mortified when i'd walk through a neighborhood where there were construction workers and cat-calls.

i had to go to the local walmart neighborhood market (i think that's what they call their grocery stores). i found everything i needed except pita bread (but they had every type of tortilla you can imagine). probably my favorite find that wasn't on my list was the...marketside chicken tortilla soup, broccoli cheddar soup and salsa.

.and the coffeemate white chocolate caramel latte.

yum-my

then i got to the cashier and the lady in front of me with her son (she called him tonto- which in spanish is kinda' like 'dummy', not the lone ranger's indian buddy), her bill came up to around $192. well, she handed the lady a card some card that took her cost down to 12.82 and then she gave the lady another card and her ending total was 2.12. hmm..must be rough to have almost all of your food paid for. so i watched her go to her car and it was a van. you know, the kind with the doors that automatically slide open...and i may or may not have followed her to see where they lived b/c it kinda pissed me off.

i'm not a stalker..i was just curious!

and i lost them, but the area they turned into was just south of walnut hill and west of midway... (it wasn't angela).
but it was in a cute little neighborhood, and that made it all the more frustrating! who am i to judge, i know, but i'm just trying to figure out where all this money is coming from if our country is in such dire straits financially.

on another note, i am excited to portion out the soups and also to get the pork loin into the crock pot-brown sugar/dijon rub, all night and we'll have pulled pork tomorrow! love, love, love! i will probably work on that in a few minutes and get what i can done before the game and save the rest for half-time.

by the way, the last couple of days i have seen a wasp again hangin out on my balcony and buzzing up against the door. so i have to search before i open the door to let the dogs out-if he's out there, i don't let them out. what a buzzkill! 

live with integrity and don't be a swindler!
jules

p.s. check out hollie's most recent creations here-cute easy puppy!