Starting off.. I came here without a bike. The weather has gotten so nice in the past few weeks that all I could think about was getting a bike to ride around. So, on Saturday, I went on a hunt for all sorts of things that I needed. I wanted to install my Golf's CD player so I could listen to music, I wanted a bike, I needed groceries, I wanted to hunt for a 220 lamp... so i went searching for a bike. I went to BXtra first so that I could price in dollars. Saw some bikes that might have been ok but there was no one around for service so i went exploring for a CD player attachment. I met this British guy at Saturn where I was looking for the CD attachment who recommended a German bike shop called Conrad in downtown K-town. He said he'd had really good service from his experience. So, off I went into downtown K-town to look for a German bike shop on an off street of the ped mall. I got really lucky that I turned the right direction and saw it 3 blocks from the parking space I found. Luckily enough, the guy spoke some English and with my little bit of German we figured it out. He was very nice and very helpful. I found a bike that was comparatively priced and the right size and I rode it up and down the block a few times to test it out. SOLD. I was very happy.
That night, Emily and I made Lasagna at her house in a round dish which is an eventful thing with square noodles. We then met up with a group from the hospital to see 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' on Kleber at the KMC community theater. I was told by CDR Lowe that one of the girls on the opposite team had been in the last production while working the same schedule we have. I'm going to have to keep an eye out on the 08-09 auditions. It would be really fun. It's very obviously community theater, you can tell who has never been in a show before and who are the senior actors of the production, but that's the charm of community theater. We'll see what happens. Afterwards, we went to Sam Kullman's, a 50's American-style diner for appetizers and drinks.
Yesterday, I went to Bingen with a group of 7 other people from work. We met on post and rode our bikes the few kilometers to the K-town train station where to got on a train and rode an hour and a half to Bingen. From there we hopped on or bikes and took the trail along the river 30km to St. Gord. we stopped frequently along the way to take pictures and there was the threat of rain the whole way. If it had been any warmer we would have been unfomfortably warm. We saw many many old castles and old ruins. It was very quintessential Germany. We stopped at a trail-side kiosk and had a picnic with drinks and took a moment to just enjoy the day. it was 30km to our objective. When we turned around we got more spread out as people were getting tired. At one point, we heard there was a break down at the back of the group. A good while later, we see the tail end rolling up and Emily is being pulled on her bike by a bungee cord I brought by Gill, one of the young guys with us. She has no pedal on her right side. We really only had just turned around. We still had a good 20 kilometers left to the train station. Off they go ahead of the group, they were really making good time because they left everyone in the dust. I cought up to them and when the rest of the group met up with us CDR Hughes had this bolt with him from a tired in the river that he'd spotted. We took a break and he made Emily a make-shift pedal. It lasted the rest of the bike trip to the train station and some of the way home from the K-town train station. There are a few long big hills from the train station to post and there was no hope for this bolt on those hills.
Once we got back, I felt like I could hardly walk. My ass and my legs were on fire and I felt like a giant bruise. We went and grabbed dinner on post and then went on a big hunt for ice cream. It was getting late so everywhere we went had just closed. We ended up at the commissary buying Ben&Jerry's. I had been craving cookie dough all day so I wound up with chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. It was a great snack for the walk back to my car. Now that I have this bike and need to take it places I'm afraid to get rid of the Subaru because there is no way the bike will fit in the golf and I'm the only one of my friends (except Nate'n Michelle with their SUV) who has a car that can fit bikes.
Today was a LAZY day. Well, I've cooked and cleaned and done some laundry, but it was a stormy day so I took in stride and watched a movie on the couch also. Gotta relax a little bit before I go to work tomorrow, it's my policy. I need to mentally gear up for going to work. I got my hopes up that they'd move me to a different unit when we shut down 'C' side and rerranged a lot of staff on the med-surg units. But, now I know they're not. I'm a little disappointed but I knew I wasn't on the target list to begin with. My head nurse even refers to it as 'doing time' on 10D...that's just want I want to heard to make me excited to come to work every day. On a good note, Gabe is supposed to come back on Wednesday afternoon for the day before heading off to Spain and NYC, so I'm anxious to see him. He has only been gone 2 weeks, but it feels like longer. The good part is, I haven't heard from him. No news at SFAS is good news. So, he's got 3 more days of SFAS and he's done!
Well, I made the mistake of talking about cookie dough and now i want to make some to take to work tomorrow for my team. Off I go to clean before taking some more 'me time' tonight and negotiate making cookies with myself.
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