3/29/2011

I woke up at around 7 am this morning. I didn't even take a shower because I took a shower after the gym last night. I just showed up for work. My platoon SGT had me log on the computer and tasked me out to go get an outlook account on the computer. I had to wait till 9 coz they were out till then. I grabbed a coffee and went back.

I didn't do anything else for the rest of the day because there was really nothing to do. I went to Tuesday formation. But I did my laundry before that. I left my phone in the laundry room. Gasp! That would really suck if I left it there for a while and someone snatched it. Luckily I didn't leave it long enough and it was right where I left it. I took a nap afterwards.

floor time

So this morning, PT was cancelled coz of the weather. I went to sleep till 6:45. I showed up for work and all I did was stay in the dayroom waxing floors. The whole thing started with 1/2 the room. The far half wasn't dried after we applied the wax stripper. We waited till lunch for it to finish. My roommate and I were working on it. We finished the half with wax applied to it. Then I started applying wax on the other half. That's when things got a bit messy. I thought that this would create a problem I almost cried. Now I hardly am able to keep up with the same page on the progress. All we really had to do was wait for the wax to dry, then buff it. I really suck at this job. I've never been required to wax floors, except in elementary school where we did it with our hands. The floor turned out looking good, even though it was 3 shades of grey.

I went to the gym in the afternoon. I worked on chest and did some cardio. I lifted weights a little bit. I do admit I was a bit bored since I didn't have a plan in my mind on what to do. I jumped on a box a few times and then went on the treadmill. Today's work out was boring. Afterwards my roommate and I decided to go to the PX for takeout. I had Anthony's pizza and some chicken wings. I saved the chicken wings for breakfast.

3/27/2011 Sundae!

This morning I woke up at 9 am. I ate a chicken gyro which I saved from last night. I watched some youtube, chatted on skype for a little bit. I didn't get to go to church today. I'm still used to going in the afternoon at 5pm on Sunday.

I took lunch at the hospital as usual. I got tired all of a sudden going back to my room. Maybe it was lunch that did it. I took a nap for about 2 hours. I woke up and started to go to the PX. My mom called me while she was at the hair salon with my sister. My sister's phone got chewed up by the dog, which I thought was very sad.

I went to the PX on my bike. I got lost and it took me half an hour to get there. I tried to use my GPS on my new phone. But knowing how I am with directions, I just cannot take a clear route. I found it eventually. I got a haircut which was my main intention.

Going back to the hospital on that hill is very tiresome. I have to go to a high point and it gets very tiring just riding up the road. 

3/26/2011

Yay it's Saturday today! I had a very interesting day. First off, I went to sleep till 10 in the morning. Then I went out to buy a bike. I got lost on the way to the bike store. Some lady at the commissary misled me to the bike shop. I ended up taking directions from a Thai lady who incidentally had a bike she hadn't used for a year. She sold it to me for 50 bucks including the pump. It was quite a sweet deal indeed. 

It started raining the same time I wanted to ride my bike back home. It happened for about 20 minutes. Then when it stopped,  I proceeded to drive back to my room. It only took about 15 minutes. It might have taken less than that had I not taken a turn on Brainard halfway across the track and field.

I took a shower and then went to the mall afterwards. I set up a line with Verizon. Funny thing about Verizon is that they have a different system for their network. They do not rely on SIM Cards like most phones do. I spent about 500 bucks in the store today. I got a Droid X phone. It's got a bigass screen. I used it a lot just within the 4 hours I've had it. 

Friday! Friday!

So today, I woke up at 4 in the morning. I've been sleeping since 7pm last night. I was so tired since that fire alarm woke me up on Thursday and I only took an hour of napping in the afternoon. I participated in the 4 am PT session which focused on abdominal workouts today. I didn't like the exercises. I've been having trouble doing pushups and situps for a while. Plus I worked out the day before and I'm still a little sore.

We got done at 5:30. For the past week, I haven't been able to get breakfast at the DFAC simply because I don't make time to do so in between 7 and 8. This morning all we did was wax and buff the day room tiles. There were 4 of us. We applied 3 coats of wax and buffed.

For lunch, I went to one of my NCO's house. It was a lot nicer than going to the DFAC for lunch. He made chicken wings which tasted awesome! We stayed there till about 12:30 in a nice part of town on Tobacco road. Then we came back and finished buffing the floors. We got done at 3:30. I took a nap afterwards

In Processing Gordon

For the past 2 days, all I've been doing is being part of the company. I knocked out my inprocessing papers in about 3 days. Most of the stations were in the hospital building next door. On MWF, we do PT at 5 in the morning which is extremely early :P. My first session, we did group runs. For some reason group runs always hurt my back and my legs. Maybe it's the shortness of stride in between the rows that's causing it. Because when I run by myself, it doesn't happen. The air is sort of dry for the mornings, so it's good to take in a lot of water.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, we have afternoon formation at 4:30. Normally the command just gives us a talk through what's been going on and how things have been going yadayadayada, and then we take off. This week we have been doing post clean up. The first thing we cleaned was the Fisher House across the hospital. There were tons of leaves that had fallen to the ground and we raked them up and got rid of them. Second time, I didn't do that, but I'm sure there was a group going at it. I was stuck with a group cleaning up a parking lot which isn't really that hard. We only did it for an hour.

On Thursday morning the fire alarm went off. At first I thought I was in a trance because I was watching some kind of weird movie earlier that evening. I tripped over my shoes on the way out to the safe zone in the gazebo. We were there till about 6 am. It really sucked coz I wanted to sleep in till 6:30.  I went to the gym earlier this week, which was good considering I haven't done it in about 3 weeks. 

Gordon

So, I recently got to the new unit. I presented myself at 8 in the morning on Monday. There were just a few slight issues. Oddly I'm not supposed to be here yet. I have to complete the first phase of my training in Fort Sam. I would've been sent out that way, but I signed into the unit already. Therefore I am inprocessed as part of the unit. I just took care of the inprocessing and got a little counseling. Nothing too big. People are nice here. I've got a roommate. It sucks that I don't have a car or a license.... I brought that up btw so hopefully I have something to work on while I'm en route to the next part of life. It sucks that it seems like I'm getting a free ride. I've already seen the mall which is huge and pretty and has all the American shops inside. I almost signed up for Verizon that Sunday at the mall. I have a to go phone which is sort of inconvenient. I'm gonna go back for it on Sunday.