Unaccompanied Baggage

Well Christmas has come and gone, and yesterday our last load of things arrived, woohoo. I spent about 8hrs unpacking, organizing, and setting up things. Andrew spent about the same. I'd say 95% is done. He worked half days W,Th, Fri. Which means being at work at 630am and home between noon and two. I also spent about two hours yesterday and today at the job center, filling out forms, revising my resume, and getting help finding jobs. By the time the information is all done I will be too tired to get a job. It is 19 pages long, on top of my resume. I have been informed that I will most likely be underemployed, possibly even working only part time. I will let you know more once my application is out there and will refrain from discussion until then.
This afternoon we ventured out to find the furniture thrift store (the redcross), Gama(bedsets, furniture, etc.), and managed to not get lost. We bought a couple things at the thrift store, some soup bowls and a glass mug.
We just got home from a nearby Chinese restaurant, very good. Although I feel weird eating Chinese in Germany. After we went to a EisCafe...ice cream, and checked out the small mall.
We hope to try out our TomTom (gps) to visit a castle tomorrow. We will let you know how that turns out.
Andrew has off til Wednesday, we hope to go with Mandi, her husband Erik, his friend Dominic, and is German girlfriend Dani, to several local venues, up until midnite, we will then head to a high hill in town to view fireworks. Supposedly it is the one day a year they are allowed to purchase fireworks around here and everyone puts them off at midnite.

Christmas Eve

we just got home from the 7pm candle light service on base. it was pretty good, other than the fact that the boy behind is going through puberty and the girl was singing quite loud, needless to say neither one was on tune. we live across the street from the chapel, so we walked. we have already opened all of our presents. andrew couldn't keep mine a secret very long, he purchased it this morning and gave it to me this afternoon. he gave me a beautiful bike, with fenders, a light, a bell, and a rack on the back (euro design). he received a watch, a backpack, and a handmade wooden christmas ornament. plus, we just bought a tomtom for the car and new cell phones to keep tabs on each other.
we had a lovely taco dinner this evening, but will have an even better one tomorrow when we go to our friend's houses. hopefully, we will find somewhere to drive to tomorrow or tuesday, to see something exciting. i've been quite lazy today. im itching to see something historic, or buy some furniture to replace our loaners.