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  • Overwhelmed Last night, I mentioned to my husband that we were going to have J's family over tonight for dinner. His response was that it was going to get crowded, because he had invited the family whose dog we are sit…

  • Peau de soie Thinking about H reminded me about a tale a CO's wife once told many years ago. We were living in Sicily at the time, and many of the women dispaired of having fashionable American clothes to wear. We all…

  • Out of my element Another friend of mine, H, came by the thrift store today while I was working. It was purely a social visit, because H wouldn't wear second-hand clothes, I'm certain. She did make a show of poking th…

  • Time to get a new watch (with a 24 hour clock) Gordon was asleep when the younger kids and I got home from the pool. I would not have thought that 4 hours of summer school was all that fatiguing, and I half suspected t…

  • Thrift store limbo Today I was chatting with J about what we should do with our day. During the school year, on Tuesdays we would go to lunch and then thrift store shopping until the kids came home. Now, with the kids…

  • House hunting the easy way Yesterday, some former neighbors breezed into town. The husband had been at sea for the last 6 months, while the wife and kids stayed with his mother. Now that he's back, he picked up the fa…

  • YaYa Poker J invited me to in a ladies only poker game last night. This is pretty new for me, playing poker. I know what the poker hands are, and that 5 cards is the standard, but if you have done this kind of thing, …

  • Flight of Fear into the 7th Portal, etc. How was the troop trip to Paramount's Kings Dominion? Fabulous! Even though we were an hour late hitting the road, it was fun all the way. We arrived at the campground (PKD ha…

  • PKD, here we come! Everything is set (I think) for the troop trip to Paramount's King's Dominion tomorrow. All the food has been purchased and my bag is packed. We just used the tents two days ago, for Relay for Life,…

  • We all scream for ice cream(or do we?) Tonight after the Scout meeting (Gordon passed his board of reveiw and has now earned Star Scout), Jim stopped by the minimart to get the kids ice cream novelties. He walked in wi…

  • Whine whine whine (so what else is new?) I have less than 48 hours before I'm supposed to take my troop to Paramount King's Dominion, and although I've found another driver to go, I'm stuck with Gordon. I thought Jim w…

  • Seeing the light This morning I took a handful of girls from my troop and went to the Relay for Life site to fill and set out luminaria bags. For those who are not familiar with these Luminarias, they are "purchased" b…

  • GS BUS I'm shocked by the majority of the responses to my problem posted below. I really am. When the problem is that the parents of the girls in my Girl Scout troop don't want to make the effort to transport the girl…

  • Logistics I'm in an unenviable situation right now. I have a GS trip next week. I have ten girls that want to go. I have only one other person to drive besides myself. We do not have enough room to carry 10 girls in…

  • Bargains Today I had another lunch date with J. First, we went to a very nice Chinese restaurant, and she ordered for us - for me, she ordered an eggplant dish. I don't remember the name, it just was chunks of eggplan…

  • The end is near Tomorrow is the last full day of school for this year. Wednesday and Thursday are half days, which are silly. I don't see the point of a half day. The kids do absolutely nothing of educational value o…

  • Singalong Q: What kind of Girl Scout thinks that sitting for 4 hours in the hot sun singing campfire songs older than they are with 100,000 other Girls Scouts is a good idea? A: An old one. I knew that. I knew it whe…

  • Peace Poles This weekend I will be in Washington D.C, for the 90th anniversary of Girl Scouting National Sing-a-Long, which will be held on the Mall. There are approximately 10,000 girls and leaders expected, and one o…

  • Spending spree I found myself in a rather curious position last night. Earlier this week, having done the financial statements for the troop, I realized that we still had several hundred dollars of cookie money left to…

  • Super men I like to watch Smallville. I started watching it because it was about Superman, even if it never says so in so many words, and I like comic book superheroes as much or more than the average geek. I had alw…

  • Last duty This was Jim's last day to stand duty. Duty for a Lieutenant Commander at this particular shore base is Command Duty Officer, which means that he stands in for the Captain after the Captain goes home for the …

  • Doing something right Tonight I had to turn in a stack of dreaded paperwork. First was the end of year financial reports for my Girl Scout troop, complete with itemized expense and income sheets. The second item was t…

  • Camping review I'm back from camp, and pretty glad of it. You may recall that I was extremely stressed over the entire prospect. To make it worse, I had a lot to do Thursday night and Friday I had several of the most …

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