Preparing for Camp

Got the letter in the mail yesterday about GS Camp training. I have to pillage C's stuff - seeing that most of the stuff was mine to begin with - she pillaged my gear for summer camp. Sleeping bag, mess kit, dunking bag (bringing back memories, GS ladies?), Sit-Upon, Hip Flask (kidding!), flashlight... Gotta see if B will let me borrow his work flashlight. It's a nice, big Cop flashlight that puts out that bluish-white light - like those new headlights that I always want to smash when they come up behind me on the turnpike and blind me.

I also have to pretend that I'm taking my troop camping - make a kaper chart, and come up with a song and game to teach (I'm gonna assume for around a campfire) that's appropriate for kids, outdoors, and might be new to others. Sigh. Crap. New. Any ideas, folks? Google, here I come! Leave the iPod, take the empty tuna can.

The next 9 days will be filled with GS activities. Tonight, Brownie meeting, tomorrow evening - CPR cert. training, Sat/Sun - Camp training, next Wed., Brownie halloween party and nut sale orders due, next Thurs - 1st Aid cert training, next Fri - Nut sale orders due to council... Oh, and I have to take care of the family and do a full time job, too! ROFLMFAO.

That's OK. I love GS. With all the negative influence out there these days, there needs to be something positive for kids. My dear brother is an Eagle Scout. (I don't care that he's in his 30s and earned it as a teen - once an ES, always an ES!) He's now a VT grad and an engineer with a great job, super wife and an Audi TT. Successful and happy. I raise my coffee mug to him. Not enough people know that there is a GS equivalent - the Gold Award. There's a TON of work that goes into the Gold Award. C is indicating that she wants to stay in GS for the long haul. Guess I just have to work my arse off to keep it fun.

Well, back to the song/game search!