May 10 2008
A-Camping We Will Go
Tomorrow I’m going camping overnight with my daughter and her Brownie troop. You may or may not know this but I’m definitely NOT the camping type. I can’t say I hate it because I’ve never actually been camping before but the idea of being stuck somewhere in the heat with bugs and dirt and poison ivy is just…bad.
Now let’s up the ante and throw in a raging sinus infection, the accompanying antibiotics that make me dizzy and nauseated and? My effing period.
God definitely hates me.
Dang, that sounds like my idea of a good time! Just throw in a few bouts of diarrhea and maybe a hemorrhoid and you’re really be livin’ the good life.
DAMN!
Growing up, I hated camping. That would mainly be because I came from an “Indoor family and the few times I was forced to camp with youth groups I took an ancient orange sleeping bag with no zipper that I had to carry in a garbage bag.
Now? I love to camp, but that is only because I married into a family of people who could go into the wilderness with a Swiss Army knife and a pack of gum and build a mall.
It matters.
Sounds like you have met my friend Murphy. Of the Murphy’s Law clan.
He is a bugger to get rid of too.
Ooooh. That’s rough. I have never been one for camping myself. I have actually gone camping, tents-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-and-all. I’d rather gouge my eyes out than do it again.
Haven’t actually been to the site in awhile-been keeping up through my reader. Looks nice!
Oh yeah, I was all like, “girls, do Brownies.” thinking that would give me an inside on the whole cookie thing (I’m addicted) and the leader came back and bit me in the butt HUGE when she informed me of the “end of the year camp out.” Ugh! Do the mother sacrafices never end?
Camping. It’s all about the right gear. Dropping 500 dollars at REI might convince me to go out in the wildnerness for one night. One.
I was going to say it won’t be that bad but then, given the circumstances and my own memories of Brownie camp (garbage bags are not really flattering wear even on little ones) I would say take a hip flask full of whiskey. That should see you through!
I thought I hated camping, too. Then we went to Cody’s Catfish Pond up here in the Weeki Wachee area. Our family of six slept in a tent, right on the edge of a pond, where the older children could take kayaks, canoes, or paddleboats out-or the little ones with an adult. (Not me, because even seeing my kids on those boats in the middle of a really not-so-big pond gives me a stroke due to my ridiculous paranoia that any body of water I am near contains Nessy or worse.) Anyway. There were real bathrooms and showers available; there was a pool, hot tub and sauna available, and…..drumroll, please….they have WIRELESS!
I told the kids (who LOVED it and haven’t stopped talking about it since) that I am down anytime because I can work, or play online while roasting marshmallows, ha! That is my idea of camping! We will definitely be back!
As soon as we get air mattresses. And more Skin-so-Soft. ;-)
Here’s the link: http://codyscatfishpond.com/
I feel your pain. I hate camping. Bug spray. And, some sealed snacks in your tent. I can never sleep and I’m always starving at 4:00 in the morning.
Why haven’t Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops everywhere realized there’s a reason someone invented indoor plumbing and mattresses? Good luck and may the bugs find you repulsive.
I am still traumatized by an 8th grade camping trip. That’s the last time I went. You are a brave mama! I’m impressed.
I have to say it, Izzy. God loves you.
I just will add this sourness: watch out for bears and bossy girls. The latter is way worse. And psst: when you are old and over this, I bet your daughter will remember…
I went camping with two friends traveling from California to Arizona during a hot day some 20 years ago. The temperature was too hot and the ground was bumpy and hard. I ended up checking in to a near by hotel with air conditioning. I am a guy but not a camping type.
As far as sinus surgery, I had that two years ago. Its a drag. If you have a sinus infection, you need rest.
Sounds like a great opportunity to learn something - or kill somebody. lol
Oh geez, louise. pumpkinpie is totally not allowed to join Brownies now.
God doesn’t hate you, God just has a twisted sense of humor. I know because God does it to me all the time.
P.S. I hate camping also.
If you’re allergic to s’mores too I’d say skip it.
How’d it go? Ugh! I’m not a camper either, and yet? Every year we go. Because the huz and both kids LOVE it. It’s just so…. dirty. Now don’t get me wrong I don’t mind getting dirty - at home, where there’s MY shower and my FULL wardrobe (as full as you can call the sad collection, anyway) to change into.
Don’t forget the s’mores. For heaven’s sake, whatever you do, don’t forget the s’mores. ;-)
Ah, it’s that Girl Scout camping time of year….
Yeah, the days of camping are well behind me… thank god.
Hope you had a good time.
I’m not much of a camper myself but I do know that everything sucks so much worse when your sick. I just got over a sinus infection myself and I felt like crap.
I hope it went well, and the camping ended up being more fun then you thought. although understand I feel the same way you do…camping for me is the penthouse.
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Izzy, why would you close comments on the book entry? That just proves you can’t take a compliment. So screw that! Congratulations!!! I’m very happy for you and I’m buying the book today.