Today was wonderful. Upon waking up, I had a cup of green tea infused with pomegranate, washed my hair (these days, washing my hair is a pretty huge deal. you just do not even know..), and got ready for church.

I met up with Gretchen, Lydia, & Jamie and we went to church in Ramstein. The worship was great, but I got a bit lost in the message. (However, I fully attribute that to my ADD, which has somehow flown under the radar for 24 years.) I think I miss Zack most on Sundays, especially when I go to church. I miss looking over and seeing his closed eyes and face full of passion, and I miss hearing his strong voice belting out songs. I miss him putting his arm around me and sharing a quick smile before a prayer. And I miss just feeling dizzy with love and sending up a million prayers of thanks for this husband of mine. But I still had a great time today, surrounded by sweet friends.

Throughout church my stomach was eating itself with hunger, so afterwards we quickly headed onto Ramstein's base and had lunch at Chili's. (!!! You would not believe how refreshing it is to just see an "American" place in the middle of Germany.) Lunch was delicious, Jamie tried fried pickles for the first time in her life, and there was plenty of entertaining conversation throughout.

After lunch we made the fatal mistake of going into the BX. For you fortunate souls that are stateside, Ramstein's BX is the equivalent of Target. You go in needing maybe 1 item, (sometimes not even that, you just have nothing better to do) and come out about $100 poorer. It is unreal how much money you can manage to spend in under an hour there, on stuff 30 minutes prior to walking in, you had no idea you needed. When we first walked in, they had a display table with...(please brace yourself for this) Victoria's Secret PINK stuff for the ARMY!

You do not even want to know how hard we spazzed out. I guess Zack will find out the extent of our freak-out session when he checks the bank account. :)

Ventured to the commissary at Ramstein, where I picked up some fresh strawberries that smelled so sweet, and were only $1 a basket. Also got some vanilla almond milk, which was Jamie's suggestion. I didn't notice a great deal of difference, nutrition-wise, between the almond milk and the regular skim milk I buy. The almond milk had 10 more calories per serving, and also a tiny bit less calcium & Vitamin A per serving as well. So I'm not sure that it's really a healthier alternative for me. I just wanted to try something different, I guess. I also bought some chocolate protein powder to add to my smoothies. Ever since I bought a Magic Bullet, (okay, it's not that exact brand, it's some knock-off..but whatever) I have been psycho about smoothies.

My typical smoothie is: any random frozen fruit I have on hand (most often strawberries, mangos, & raspberries. I do frozen because I'm too lazy to make ice trays)*1/2 banana *1/2 cup of plain Greek yogurt*splash of 100% juice (normally cranberry) *handful of spinach *sprinkle of cinnamon.

After our adventures in Ramstein, we drove home. As usual, I was sad to say goodbye to my friends. It's insane, I really could hang out with them 24/7. Although I'm not sure they'd feel the same. ;)

I got home and before I lost motivation and my bed sucked me into its magical grasp, I threw on some workout clothes and did my first BodyRock workout because I was too lazy to go get my P90X DVD (yes, I readily admit to having laziness issues.) I have to admit, I was seriously impressed by BodyRock. Most of the workouts are very short, which I love. I chose a longer one, 22 minutes, and it straight kicked my butt. I still feel a little wobbly, in fact. But...bad news. My #1 GirlCrush for about 5 years now, has been replaced by the BodyRock girl, Zuzana. I expected her to be this raging youknowwhat, but she was surprisingly down-to-earth, had a cute Russian accent, and was really encouraging.

(Well, maybe 'replaced' was a harsh word. Rachel, I will forever want you to be my best friend.)

The cherry on top of my gelato of a day was as I was stepping out of the shower, literally one foot in the shower and one on the ground, the phone rang. As soon as I heard that perfect voice on the other end, all the butterflies alive on this Earth made their way to my stomach and I smiled like a goofy creep throughout the conversation. A rather short conversation, but hey...beggars can't be choosers, right?

I guess that's enough pointless information. This was my first attempt at a "This is what I did today" post. Sometimes it's nice to just write without thinking too much.