Who needs a MOJITO time?- Page 432

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:33pm

My first year at camp, I was with my next-door neighbor, and while I, from the crazy house, was THRILLED to have a week away from home, Alynne cried and cried that first night. By the end of the week (our camp was only one week each year), when her parents came to get her, she was crying because she didn't want to leave. :)

Updated On: 7/12/05 at 12:33 PM

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:39pm

How far away was camp from where you lived? Just curious...

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:41pm

L - I will take a poll of the kids as to their thoughts about overnight camp.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:43pm

Our camp was about a 2 1/2 hour drive away.

[liotte]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:44pm

See, Rath knows what I am talking about. Camp is one of the greatest places in the world, I know it can be expensive (in regards to an earlier remark) but the special experiences and lifelong friendships are incredible and make it all worthwhile.
Let me know what the kids think, and I'd be happy to answer any questions they have!
-Liotte, Super Counselor Extraordinaire :)

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:48pm

As far as finances, our camp was affiliated with our church, and we raised our own funds through youth group activities throughout the year. Perhaps you can look into something like that with whatever community groups your families may be involved in. I would have not have been able to attend camp without raising the money myself. I went for six years and loved every second of the experience.

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:49pm

Did you guys feel abandoned at all? When I dropped c5 off this morning, he looked like he was gonna cry...

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:51pm

Well, a five year old is going to feel different than a 12-year-old, which is the age at which I first went to camp.

Again, I came from a crazy house, so getting to spend a week away from it was more than welcome! Abandonment wasn't an issue as it was my choice and I had worked to get there.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:54pm

I wish I had gone to camp. We don't have such things back home. In the summer, grandma takes care of you while your parents are at work. There should be adult theater camp.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:56pm

DD, for the rest of the summer, when I wasn't at camp, I was at my aunt's house - better than Grandma's because Auntie had kids and a pool!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 12:59pm

We got to stay in our house because grandma lived next door. Oh joy! And she was such a sour-puss. We were pretty much latch-key kids.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:01pm

I was a latch-key kid during the school year. I loved it - came home, watched TV, sang along with my OBCR recordings and pop albums/radio as loud and as long as I wanted!

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:05pm

I did too! My first album was Grease... and I'd come home and play it as loud as I could and danced all around the foyer of the house! Of course, I was Sandy.

[DAME]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:06pm

Hi hussys. i didn't sleep all night. I accidentaly deleated 200o music files from my lovers computer. I have not told him. I do think he has them backed up.. But I am trying to resolve it without his knowledge because we will have a huge fight.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:07pm

It was all great until senior year when I had to get a job and babysat for three awful children every day after school.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:12pm

Yikes! No babysitting for me. I didn't start working until my first year of college... and have worked ever since. *sigh*

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:16pm

I started working summers at 16, and then there was pretty much no turning back... my Dad, who was in the seafood business, had me working for him, so that meant while everyone was up having fun, I was sleeping, cause I had to get up at 3:30 (now, everyone feel sorry for me, okay?)

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:17pm

*cue violins*

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:22pm

Dame - did you not sleep because of the deletion and how did you do it???

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:27pm

DD - they need to be the world's SMALLEST violins...

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:35pm

Ok... it's all about me right now. SO... a couple of weeks ago I went out for this Stage Manager gig. I've been trying to get into this theater for a while, this was my third SM gig. I was supposed to have heard by last Thursday. So when Thursday came and went, I figured I didn't get it, and auditioned for the other show to have something to do this Fall. Well... I just got a call and I got the SM gig!!! I am so excited! It's a semi-professional theater, and the gig is "Blood Brothers". I can barely contain my excitement... ok, not really. I can't contain my excitement.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:40pm

Congrats DD. I was an excellent SM in college. Very picky and persnickity. I am still gettting my ass kicked for telling my wife in 1987 that she was five minutes late from the lunch break.

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 1:53pm

(Everybody put on your "Bye Bye Birdie" hats):

STAGE MAN-A-GER!
STAGE MAN-A-GER!
DD'S GONNA BE STAGE MAN-A-GER!
HOW COULD ANY THEATRE BE-EE...
JUST SO FORTUNATE! (YIPEE-EE!)
HE'LL BE THE HOST TO TOAST
THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WEST COAST
STAGE MA-AA-AA-AA-N-A-GERRRRRR!

[liotte]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 3:24pm

Congrats DD!!!

DAME- did you fix the computer?

[DAME]

Posted: 7/12/05 at 3:26pm

No. I am at work. I have to wait till I get home. I am leaving early to try to do it before he gets home.