Rob's Back!

Well Rob came home from his mini trip for work Thursday evening. I'm lame and was so excited to have him home already :D

Friday wasn't too crazy. I usually work Fridays but was off. I went with Rob to work on the '95 BMW at the car shop here on post. We (meaning Rob) discovered it needed a new suspension ASAP. We knew we'd need one since the guy we got it from had it lowered so much it would scrape on a speed bump, but we didn't know we needed it so soon. The front left spring was broke so it would fit (the guy who did it was lazy and tried to make a diff size spring work or whatever). Basically we needed that fixed, which Rob then did Saturday with Austin (woot woot). But after we discovered that we came home to let the car rest until the evening festivities began. 

That night Austin, Danette, Rob, and I all went to a restaurant here in town, Hotel Berghof. Danette and I had been there before for Sunnie's birthday and wanted to take the guys. Plus it was "all-you-can-eat" chicken wings and Rob couldn't pass that up. [I got the amazing carbonara again, just because i LOVED it the first time] Then, after dinner, we all walked to the knot for some alcohols and enjoyed the rest of our evening there.

My first Irish Wake! :D

I finally got around to trying an Irish Wake on that night. Scratch that, I tried 3 of them. They're pretty awesome. 1 shot bacardi gold, 1 shot silver, 1 shot 151, blue curacao and orange juice. yum. (I'm pretty sure that's the recipe they use at the knot). Anyway, I'm a fan, but they can get a bit dangerous after a few of em lol. 

Saturday Rob woke up and worked on the car while I attempted some homework (being on spring break I lack motivation). That evening after Danette got off work we all went to Ramstein. We left around 630 and all snagged some goodies from the PX there. After Ramstein we had some friends over. Played some beer pong and went to the knot. Oh and I had to selfie with everyone.

Our wonderful scary faces.

Top: Me and Swift
Bottom: Me and Rosie
I was selfie-ing it up.

And my two favorite gay boys! Jesse and Will. Love them!
And Jesse wants to learn to sew. Super stoked about that.
I'm a nerdy old seamstress.

And our pong game. I love Swift's face in the top one.

We had fun playing before we left- always saves us money at the bar that's for sure. 

We even managed to squeeze in some Jenga at the Knot.

But I mean between my margaritas, fireball shots, and an Irish Wake at the Knot- I was covered. And super hungover on Sunday. Rob, luckily wasn't.

Sunday I laid around feeling terrible and Rob was the productive one. I napped and did some homework. I only ventured out of the house to snag McDs for dinner. It was one of those days. 

Monday (today) I woke up and got coffee with one of the wives, Cynthia. It was nice to sit down and get to talk a bit. She invited be to go to La Tomatina in August which I TOTALLY wanna do. It's the tomato festival in Valencia, Spain.

And, since work called and said they didn't need me today that left me with time to post on here :D I even ordered Molli and I's first tickets for our trip. She comes in next tuesday!

We're all set for the Anne Frank House
and for the Van Gogh Museum.

I Promised.

I promised I would post more so here I am. A little update but an update none the less.

Rob's gone most of this week for work so I'm trying to make the most of it. Today I went with Danette and Austin to the courthouse in Birkenfeld- had to snag my international license before Molli arrived :D

it's a weird booklet. but hey- it's legit :D

So much stress off my shoulders now that that's done and outta the way.

Then after that it was off to the gym. I'm thinking the only way I'm going to reach my goal (weight-wise and "goal-activity"-wise) is if I start doing LOTS of cardio to burn off those calories I seem to be eating. I'm thinking 2 hours of cardio when I hit the gym. #nomatterwhat One hour of hardcore work on the stair machine or the elliptical and then 30/30 on the bike and walking on the treadmill. I am going to lose my weight and look totally different when I come back to the states. I've never felt so determined. I have lots of goals and I will meet them. Plus, I'll feel 110% better when I am happy with my body.
 
Other than that, nothing crazy happened today. Just doing the damn thing and waiting for the hubbsters to come back home :D And it's spring break so I can kinda take a break from that college thing, so that's a bonus. But, with this being spring break, and I'm home alone, I'm off to go lay in bed (super early I might add); just cause I can.

Love ya'll- night.

Oh no- a 2 Week posting gap? I failed.

I can't believe my last post was on February 27th? that's like forever ago. Time to rehash and share a life update.

Let's start with that weekend, March 1st. The Knot was having a Fasching party, which fasching is explained a bit more here. Basically we all dressed up in costumes and went to party at the knot. It was lots of fun. So many people showed up and one of the wives, Sunnie, made her amazing chocolate Oreo truffles, which are amazing!! (I needs the recipe, but my waistline keeps telling me no.)

I liked our costumes. Rob was an escaped convict. Simply for the reason
he wanted to carry a cap gun and well, he had to escape first
to find the gun, of course.

Then that following week, since I finally have my ls, I started gyming more. (which I'm happy about). I even had to selfie in the car after my first successful drive alone in our rickety 5 speed on my way to the gym.

That's my "hey I made it to the gym in one piece" face.
Plus I had to get the right angle to prove I was actually driving alone :D

Then, after my interview with Tosha I mentioned last post I started working on the 6th. My first task, which I finished this past week (like on Wednesday the 12th) was organizing my office. After my first day Tosha and I set up a schedule for me to come in M, W, and F afternoons. Since it's a volunteer thing I just do maybe 3-4 hours each afternoon, sometimes 5 if I'm having Rob pick me up after he's done at work. Nothing too crazy though.

When I first started the office looked a bit like a tornado hit it.
ACS currently doesn't have a marketing person so this marketing office
became a catch all supply room basically.

I had a lot to organize but I like organizing and I didn't mind. Plus it is a nice way to start off my job to see what all materials we have and what we needed. With no one over me to guide me and show me the ropes it helps to be able to get oriented and see what all is there to start with. I moved all of the office supplies down the hall to the supply room, which seemed like the obvious first move. It helped to free up a lot of space. Some of the supplies had to stay in here like colored and patterned paper but most of it was able to move.

Next, I headed down to the pretty creepy basement to sift through materials and see what I could find. So much was down here I doubt they even knew that they had! Lots of trips up and down the stairs were made. Water bottles, mousepads, drink koozies, luggage labels, childrens books, DVDS, pamphlets, and so much more :D 

This is said creepy basement. Totally looks like what I think of
when everyone says these buildings are left from when
the Nazi's were here,

But, once the 12th rolled around all the effort was totally worth it. The office looks fabulous and I'm excited to see what projects I'll be starting this coming week :D

I even went label gun happy. I swear this is super organized.
And, I Love It.

In addition to starting "work" the weather has started to clear up and warm up. We went to the dog park here on post for the first time the weekend of the 8th. We ended up going on Saturday and on Sunday.

Kaela is so good in the car, love when her ears stick out
of our sun roof :D

The park here is like many other I've been to, just a big fenced in field.
She loves it though and chases the ball the entire time we're there.

Then Sunday after we went to the dog park with Danette and Austin we all decided to grill out, along with everyone else on post. When the weather is nice EVERYONE grills out. Literally there are grills on every side of every housing building, just grab a pad and start cooking. We did brats, bacon wrapped asparagus, and we trial-ran a peanut butter/chocolate/banana/graham cracker dessert. It was a win. Kaela even behaved and hung out with us while we grilled out.

Lastly, this week on Thursday was the first company BBQ we went to. It started at 1130 and it was lots of fun. Lots of food and lots of people. They had a volleyball net set up and it was a good time. A couple other dogs were there for Kaela to play with. We ended up letting her off her leash and she did really well. We hadn't tried it before so we weren't sure if she was the running type but she listened well. Murphy, a fellow man dog that wants to be her boyfriend, was there and they ran around most of the afternoon, him humping any air around her. Wish I could have gotta a picture of her sliding down the hill though. She'd get so tired from running around and come lay on the hillside next to me and roll over and start sliding. It was cute.

I didn't stay at the BBQ as long as everyone else and left around 430 so I could come home to clean and set up. We were having people over afterwards and I had to straighten up. Once people got here we beer ponged and played kings for a bit. Regular pre-gaming at the Ruwe's and then off to the Knot. Yay for drinking on a Thursday because its a four-day weekend. 

Friday we didn't do much but recover and today we might stop out at the Knot for the St. Patty's Day festivities. Rob has a work thing tomorrow so we can't be out super late. Other than that I think those are the updates. Our bmw back in the states is finally on its way (thanks to Babcock and Finch for helping us with that). I can't wait for it to get here and the traveling to begin!! Plus I booked the hotel for when my cousin Molli comes in on April 1st. We snagged a hotel for her first night in Amsterdam and I'm super stoked. #wootwoot

More will be posted later. And I'm keeping my fingers crossed I don't make a habit of these two week gaps between posts. I'll work on that.