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Peanut Sauce=Best Thing Ever
Mar. 27th, 2009 08:03 pmOh man, my dad and I just came from the most amazing Thai place in Albuquerque. SO GOOD OM NOM NOM. We had these great fried dumplings, and then he had the Tom Yum, which was fabulous and delicious and full of shrimp and squid and awesome (he shared), and I had the Moo Tod, which I've never tried before - it's fried pork with the most incredible spicy peanut sauce. I was totally in heaven. I love finding this kind of tiny, hole-in-the-wall restaurant, it always feels like such an adventure.
It was almost enough to take away from how exasperating today was. I've been trying really hard to get the summer job thing taken care of while I'm home, but I am...not making headway. Really really not. The people at the Bernalillo library just kept jerking me around and not telling me anything until I finally gave up. So I went to the Rio Rancho library instead, which is not nearly as convenient but at least I know people there? And after going in circles for two hours, getting told by every person I talked to that I needed to talk to someone else, I finally nailed down that I needed to talk to someone who is on vacation for another week. *rolls eyes*
But I refuse to let it bother me. So: things that were good about the last couple days. Tiny cousins! My aunt came over to my mom's yesterday before I left and brought Robbie, my cousin's kid, and he is absolutely the cutest thing ever. Even if it's still weird that my cousin has a kid, since he's only a year older than me. Still adorable! He's two, and he looks just like the old pictures of my cousin. We took him around and showed him all the horses, and he was so excited. *hearts* I've also got to see my new baby cousin, my uncle's kid, while I've been here, and CD's an utter sweetheart, and not nearly as spoiled as my mom led me to expect. It's so sweet to see him with my grandpa and grandma. So that was awesome.
Also awesome: books! I've been going through a lot of boxes with my mom, stuff that's been in storage since we moved out of the house three years ago, and it's kind of terribly fun to see all this stuff again. A lot of it I'm getting rid of - I have way too many books I've never read or will never read again and just don't need to keep around, not to mention all the other random junk - but I've brought five boxes back to my dad's already. Right now I'm rereading Anne of Green Gables, which I found in one of the boxes. It's such a fond part of my childhood, I couldn't resist.
And hopefully tomorrow will be a good last day here before I head back to California.
It was almost enough to take away from how exasperating today was. I've been trying really hard to get the summer job thing taken care of while I'm home, but I am...not making headway. Really really not. The people at the Bernalillo library just kept jerking me around and not telling me anything until I finally gave up. So I went to the Rio Rancho library instead, which is not nearly as convenient but at least I know people there? And after going in circles for two hours, getting told by every person I talked to that I needed to talk to someone else, I finally nailed down that I needed to talk to someone who is on vacation for another week. *rolls eyes*
But I refuse to let it bother me. So: things that were good about the last couple days. Tiny cousins! My aunt came over to my mom's yesterday before I left and brought Robbie, my cousin's kid, and he is absolutely the cutest thing ever. Even if it's still weird that my cousin has a kid, since he's only a year older than me. Still adorable! He's two, and he looks just like the old pictures of my cousin. We took him around and showed him all the horses, and he was so excited. *hearts* I've also got to see my new baby cousin, my uncle's kid, while I've been here, and CD's an utter sweetheart, and not nearly as spoiled as my mom led me to expect. It's so sweet to see him with my grandpa and grandma. So that was awesome.
Also awesome: books! I've been going through a lot of boxes with my mom, stuff that's been in storage since we moved out of the house three years ago, and it's kind of terribly fun to see all this stuff again. A lot of it I'm getting rid of - I have way too many books I've never read or will never read again and just don't need to keep around, not to mention all the other random junk - but I've brought five boxes back to my dad's already. Right now I'm rereading Anne of Green Gables, which I found in one of the boxes. It's such a fond part of my childhood, I couldn't resist.
And hopefully tomorrow will be a good last day here before I head back to California.