Tornado! (of volunteers)

Today flew by like no other day I have ever experienced...it started out with waking up at 6am to workout with Joe and Drew (I promised them last week that I would workout with them on days when we don't do PT starting this week...and I am not a liar!) So we ran a little over a mile, then did lots of crunches, pushups (I can now do 10 in a row without stopping! and not the girly version!) and then some things called "burpees" where you do a pushup, jump up, go back down, pushup again, etc. Needless to say, I am absolutely exhausted right now! Then after that amazing workout, I spent the rest of the morning with Heidi (the girl who trained us at the Toledo house the past couple weeks) at a new site that neither of us had done work at yet. This house was almost done, all of the flooring, painting, etc. was already done, we just had to work on the finishings. The only problem was, the door frames in the house (all of them!) were 1 inch too short...so we had to saw off 1 inch off of every door and door frame in the house--so fun! NOT! But the morning went by wicked fast and we went to Subway for lunch (she got subway, I ate my pb&j) and then we went back to the house to clean up the site (it wasnt very organized or clean when we got there, which totally overwhelmed me!) and then our half-day volunteers showed up around 1:30. We were supposed to get 7 volunteers that we were going to have help us put in some baseboards and call it good, but what we really got was what seemed like a tornado of 30 volunteers all attacking us at once! There were really only 12 of them, but that is still a LOT for one house and only 2 supervisors! Also, keep in mind that this was only my second time ever leading volunteers and I was not very confident in leading them in baseboards to begin with, which is why Heidi was there with me...thank goodness she was there! As soon as they got off their bus, two 30-something year old guys walked right up to us saying, "wow, they didn't warn us that we would be having two such beautiful site supervisors today!" which cracked me up, because let's face it...you all know how ridiculous I look in my uniform! They were all really cool people, but since they were only going to be working for half a day, they were ready to get going and didn't want to listen to anything we were saying! They thought that they knew what to do, so Heidi and I were constantly running around chasing after them trying to keep an eye on them and correcting them when they made wrong assumptions...it was nuts! They were from all over the country, and worked for Guardian Insurance, so they talked a lot about money and were totally shocked that we could live off of so little (which is funny, because that is something I am quite proud of, myself!)  At the end of the day (2 hours later) Heidi and I came to the conclusion that that was the craziest day of supervising volunteers EVER and we thought we had just survived some kind of natural disaster, but the people we worked with really were cool and would be fun to just hang out with, preferably off site though! One of the guys there is married to Samantha, the former host of Dancing With The Stars, which is really cool! And this group had the most awesome shirts made especially for volunteering, so I joked around saying, "Awesome shirts! You guys brought some for us too, right?!" Which Heidi told me later that they really are going to bring us shirts :) Woohoo! I love free t-shirts! They are def in my top 5 favorite things :) We had another "Welcome Home Party" tonight, which was fun, with some delicious cake, and then we had breakfast for dinner at River 2's house (which, by the way is AWESOME! They even have a pool!) and our Unit Leader, Neil was there, so we had a nice group dinner and hang out session with everyone =] So now I am doing laundry and then going to bed! I am sooo tired tonight, but I wanted to update my blog for y'all before I went to bed.