Girl Scouts Kicked My Ass

Last weekend was a little hectic. I had been on the waiting list for some training and hadn't really thought that I would get in. On Friday I got a letter and an e-mail that I could go to the first part. You see what I needed was both parts. Part 1 is Fire & Cooking. You need this to build a fire or cook with your girls. Part 2 is Overnight, which you need to take your girls on an overnight trip. The problem was I hadn't turned in the silly Home Study course that you are supposed to do first. I figured that if they sent me the stuff they knew that and I decided I would go anyway. At that point things started to turn crazy. I tried to call the office and found out the the Girl Scout office was closed for that Friday. GREAT. Then I tried to send an e-mail and got "out of the office" replies. OK. Then I decided to fax my Home Study form. Two out of three fax numbers would not pick up. So I took a copy with me. I pack up some stuff and drove to the camp. I get there early, yeah I'm annul. There I find out that they had another cancellation that morning and they now had room in the overnight portion. GREAT. I didn't bring any overnight gear. So now I'm trying to find Mary, my sister, who lives not that far away and get her to bring me some stuff. Jim's in the air taking another lesson so there is no way to reach him. I leave a message with Arion, knowing that chances are 50/50 that Jim will get it. Then we HIKE up the hill to the camp site. Pay attention to this. We are at one of the FAR off sites. This means you walk up carrying your stuff. I helped some of the others because I didn't have as much. We get there and a couple hours later Mary called and was at the Camp. She agreed to meet me half way so I start to hike down. The I realize that she took the short cut and I went the long way. Back up the short cut trail I go. Later in the lesson the Home Study course was mentioned. We are told that if we didn't turn in the test paper, we can show them a copy so they can sign our cards. Of course they had told me I could leave my paperwork in the CAR at the bottom of the camp ground. So after the first part I walked down AGAIN with the leader to get the person for the next session and get the paperwork. That makes three (or four) trips up and down the hill so far. The next day we were told we needed to take a TOUR of the camp. That's right. A very LLLOOONNNGGG walk around the camp, so we could see all the sites and facilities. Then drag some carts back up to the site and load up our stuff. After we were done, we then dragged all the stuff back down to our cars.

I got home in time to shower and take Brandon to his first Tiger Scout Popcorn sale.

Yesterday I had a very bad limp and still feel a little stiff today, but it done now for 5 years. Thank God.