Week in Santa Fe

I'm back, NERDS!*

So as you all know I spent last week in the Land of Enchantment (New Mexico) with my sister. Our goal, of course, was to find a place to live.  One thing that kind of bummed me out originally was that I didn't have a single place that I was super excited about.

Thanks to Bethany (she's awesome, and has been SO helpful) I had somewhat of an idea to expect but I was still freaking out a little.

We flew from Boston on Tuesday.  On the flight to Phoenix, I bought a snack box since they are generally gluten-free.  When I handed the flight attendant my USAA credit card, she asked if I was military.  When I told her about Rob, she handed me back my card and gave me the snack box for free! As I told Rob, the four years apart and Purple Heart were totally worth the dried fruit and cheese.

We landed and I got a sight of my new home airport, Albuquerque Sunport! As a side note, doesn't "support" sound so much more fun and exciting and less TSA-violating than "airport?"

The next morning we looked at heroin-needle place and, as I told you previously, randomly called our dream house and basically decided on it that day.  I have to tell you, I totally shut down a few times and my stomach was filled with the tumult that only stress can bring.  Once the landlords called on Thursday morning and said that we'd snagged the place my whole being did a huge freaking internal summersault/flip/cartwheel moment.  

I stressed about the limited space (which prompted a complete evaluation of everything we owned, which I wrote out and you can see below) but Megan, who lives in a small space, gave me all the encouragement I needed.  So then I stressed about money, which both Megan and my Robbie helped me through.  Thanks guys!  I'm 100% ready to move forward with this trip and I couldn't be happier.

I hope I accurately convey just how crazy I can be through these blog posts.

We spent the rest of our time in Santa Fe visiting my dad's alma mater (which we'd heard stories of throughout our childhood), seeing the country's oldest church, visiting another old church with a logic-defying staircase, eating lots and lots of food (including gluten-free pizza!) and drinking quite a few margaritas and martinis. Also, I bought a fun sexy dress from Target! I promise it doesn't look that lumpy in real life.

It was genuinely a really fun trip.  I'm really glad that Megan and I got to spend some time together before we are separated by around 3000 miles, and I couldn't have picked a better person to help me through such a stressful time.

I hope you all had a great weekend, and thank you all for realsies for filling out my survey.

*You guys aren't actually nerds, unless you like being labeled as such. I just wanted to channel Liz Lemon.