Burnt Macaroons

Its been a pretty good week so far. Mostly because the snow finially came! Everyday the weather would say that it was supposed to snow and nothing would come. Then yesterday morning I woke up and looked out the window and there it was. Beautiful white powder covering everything. I was so excited I may have yelled "It's snowing" and did a little dance. Greg immeditly told me I was way to excited. What can I say, I just love the snow! It really makes it feel more like Christmas.

The night before Greg had promised to go to the gym with me. Working out has really become something I love and with all my free time I can finally really focus on it. So I asked a friend of mine if he could set me up with a plan. I want to start lifting weights and incoperate other things other then just running. I figured it gives me a goal and something to work towards.

Greg being the nice boyfriend he is said he would go with me and go over my workouts and show me how to properly do everything.  The gym was dead when we got there which was perfect. We didn't have to worry about rushing.

Greg and I really enjoy working out together. We always have fun and it's a great way to take your mind off what your doing. I just wish we could go together more often. Although I don't think he liked the picture taking part. I told him people like to see pictures and what fun is a story without something to look at! So he gave me this face when I told him to smile for the blog : )

After our workout stopped and picked up some groceries and then it was home for lunch. We fallowed that up with a few episodes of Dexter. Around 6pm I jumped in the shower and got ready. We had plans to meet up with some guys from the team for drinks. We started at the Christmas market where Greg of course had a steak sandwhich and then walked to a near by Irish pub. 

I enjoyed my black apple while playing the finger game. It was a silly game but very entertaining. I lost the first few times we played but once I got the hang of it I was good to go. We had a fun little night out and headed home before midnight. Our taxi driver ended up being a guy Greg and I saw earlier that morning at the gym. We thought that was pretty ironic. 

When we got home I needed a little something sweet so I enjoyed one of my burnt macaroons I made the night before. Next time I will pay more attention when making these tasty balls of coconut. Apparently they burn easy. Thankfully it made no difference and they were still delicious!

The rest of our evening will be spent bumming around and starting the second season of Dexter. Every time we watch the show I laugh because the creators get you to like Dexter even though he is a serial killer. Sounds kind of crazy when you think about it! Don't you agree?

This Christmas Market Will Be the Death Of Me

Today Greg and I wanted to get out of the house and go walk around the christmas market again. Seeing as the first night we went it was so packed you could hardly walk. Our plan was to go walk around and kill some time before we meet some friends for sushi. We both got ready, layered up for the cold, and headed downtown. Our first stop was to get Greg a steak sandwhich we saw the other night and wanted to try. After he scarfed that down he headed over to get some coffees because we were out this morning and I am one of those people who needs their coffee.

As the lady made our coffees these little fellows caught my eye. Now if you ask me they do this because all the people around here are so religious and they all love chocolate so who is going to say no to buying one of these. No home is compleat during the holidays with out it ahah! My eyes then went stright over to the baked goods

This country will never fail me when it comes to treats. They are everywhere and I will admit I have tried many of them. But not today I did not want to spoil my meal. 

Greg and I took our coffees to go and continued on our way. As we walked around looking at all the little nick-nacks for sale we got a message from our friends that they were not going to make it. The first thing out of Greg's mouth. "Now I can try all the food!" I was starving seeing as I had yet to eat so we walked around trying to find something for me. Some how I ended up with a hotdog and Greg with a suasage. It was actually way better than any hotdog I have ever had at home. After we finished Greg had not filled his bottomless pit yet so he went back for another steak sandwhich. Him being the weirdo he is made me go and order it so he did not look like a fatty. 

After he was done we remembered we only had an hour on the meter and should start heading back...but not without stopping for some roasted nuts!! We both looked at each other and knew this place was bad news. We (Greg) just ate our way threw the market! I think we are going to avoid going downtown for a while because clearly we can not handle the temptation. 

Once we got home we decided to start watching Dexter because we finished our last show and needed something new to watch. We both have seen it before but never started from the very begining. We watched the first two episodes before Greg had to leave for practice. We plan on watching a few more after he gets home and we eat dinner. Our sleep schedule is a little off lately so Im thinking about breaking out our german sleepy time tea (aka tranquilizer tea) so that we will be able to go to bed at a decent hour and get back into the grove of waking up early.

Hope everyone had a happy Monday!!!

To Much Free Time

Now that I have settled into my life here in Germany and I feel comfortable I find that I have more and more time on my hands. I really should not complain! I know people are reading this right now and thinking, and no Im not trying to have a pity party. I am just simply stating I have more time then I know what to do with.

I have been a none top student sense I can remember. The goal was always to graduate from college and then get a job. Well somewhere in that plan I meet Greg and my life changed. Now I am in another country with a college degree and no job. Its been hard for me. I have no job to go to, no class to study for, no papers to write, nothing. It was like being on vacation at first but then you get over that feeling and you say to yourself, "now what."

I have been aimlessly searching the internet for work. I honestly thought it would be no problem. Boy was I wrong! Finding an at home job would not be so hard if I was in the US but throw into the mix that I live in another country...big time problem. Getting a job in the city I live in is impossible because everyone speaks german and all I can do is count to 10 and order coffee and pastries. The other problem being I do not have my visa yet so as of now I am an illegal alien (for all my friends, insert joke here) 

So for those of you who have gone to college you know your time there was not cheap and for the those lucky ones who foot their own bill you know you have six months till those lovely student loan payments kick in. Talk about pressure. Panic attacks have happened when I think about how much it cost to go to school. Greg being the one person I see everyday who gets to hear about it. Poor guy. But I could not ask for anyone better to be there for me. He is always by my side helping me get threw it and stay hopeful. So for now I am staying positive and praying that my one lead on a job works out, fingers crossed!!

I have now decided with my extra free time I will blog my little heart out! Keeping with that is an update on what Greg and I have been up to! A few weeks ago we took a trip to go visit a concintration camp. I have always loved history and museums and this was something I always wanted to see but never thought I would ever get a chance to do. The closest one to us was Dachau. It happens to be the first one ever opened here in Germany and was only 50 minutes away.

This was the entrance gates to the camp

We had planned to take a guided english tour but due to our lack to of energy that morning we had a late start and did not make it in time. Luckily everything there is translated into english and we read everything we could. Typical Greg and I, walked threw the gates and stood there trying to figure out where to start. We ended up looking at the whole thing back wards, shocker. The whole thing took us about two hours to see. It was an experience I will never forget and feel so grateful to have seen.

Greg had his first real away game. Usually they drive all day to get to away games and get home really late that night around 2 or 3am. This time the team they were playing was about 10 hours away so they left they day before. This was my first time being alone in the apartment for full night on my own. When it came time to sleep I decided the coach was a good idea sense I can keep the tv on. The strange part about that is I actually really hate the tv on when I sleep. We dont even have one in our room and when we did at our last place we would always turn it off before we would even try to fall asleep. But when I am alone you bet that tv is staying on. I slept like crap and finally at 6am I was woken up by a Justin Beiber music video and a stiff neck. I figured sense the sun was coming up I was ok to sleep in our big bed alone. The second night alone I stayed up till 4am watching Magic Mike and then forced myself to sleep in the room because my neck could not handle another night on the coach.

We also celebrated our first big holiday away from our families. Thanksgiving fell on a Thursday which was the night before a game so we decided to celebrate that fallowing Monday with some of the imports. Greg and I volunteered to have it at our place so that meant I had to make dinner for everyone. I was slightly nervous but everything turned out pretty good! It was nice to hang out with everyone and have our own little celebration.

We have now entered December which means Greg finally got rid of his mustache, thank god!! It also means it is time to break out our advent calendar we got courtesy of the Starbulls!

Who can honestly say they don't like to wake up every morning to a piece of chocolate! Greg will never know the joy, there is only one small piece a day and I am not sharing. He knows how much I love chocolate and he also knows what would happen if he tried to eat it! Can't wait for the morning so I can eat another piece!!!