I must be MAD! (by sarah)
Ok so I'm supposed to be taking it easy and cutting down on the stuff am doing - but I am BORED!!!! and I still only know about 5 people in the village - so me and Al thought how am I going to make more local friends?
Oh look they are having a Scout open day as they are reopening the Scout groups here after over 20 yrs of absence even though the County things are here :/ we could go along suggests Al and maybe you can help out a bit as you miss Thriftwood so much. Yes I agree. So we went - this was Sunday afternoon - it was nice weather - we chatted we played giant connect a four, we baked dough twizzle things on an open fire. Somehow my interest in helping had been turned into 'wants to be a leader come along on Thursday'. So I went along last night - and well erm.... I've said its only temporary but I appear to now be going to be running Beavers and Scouts - MEW!!!!!
They are on the same night though so not too bad - Al thinks this will actually be good for me as I tell other people to carry the heavey stuff and appart from a bit of organising and the like I'll be doing the sort of thing I love - the sort of thing I did full days of at Thriftwood. Of course I have to do some training but that doesnt look to bad either - especially as I wanted to redo my First Aid anyway as I think it expired about a month ago!
I have to learn knotts but hey that should be fun - at the moment I know about five - all of which are climbing ones plus the handcuff not which I'm sure I learnt on route to some 'firemans' sling thing - honest guve!
I've made sure they know about the medical situation and stuff as well - so hopefully it should all be fine.
Sigh - I've already started thinking about what I am going to do as activities :/ I think I might be being too uber keen here.
So I have just increased my sadness quoter by about 50% but hey we had our wedding reception at a Scout Campsite - so I think I'm already tarred with that brush - what with being a Geek/hippy/goth/erm dont put me in a box person through my youth (I think I still just count in their groupings as youth - being 25!).
Oh Lordy - ok Sarah don't panic - panic is the mind killer - erm I think I've writen a post like this once before - oh yes just before everything went pear shaped - oh well lightning doesnt strick twice does it? Oh dear it does doesnt it - ok ok just flow with it and see where it takes you!
p.s. I forgot to mention the cute baby piglet!!! It was there on Sunday - it was just hrs old and being hugged in a blanket fed milk - the kids werent petting it before people get stressed it was there as its mothers ill and its siblings had all been still births and one of the organisers happens to be a farmer and she couldn't really not come and it doesnt harm the piglet it was warm and being fed and kids are less noisy than piglets. Did I mention its cute? And large!
Fri 15th Sep 2006 11:09 am 
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By Clare, Fri 15th Sep 2006 @ 3:21 pm
Mad hippy grunger I had you down as! :p ;)And yes, you are quite nuts. But in a good way! 😀 Boring to be all normal and that innit! 😀
Good luck with the scouts and beavers - seriously do you have more hours in the day than I do?!! And please remember this mantra: "Don't overdo it!" Cos it's not like you'd ever overdo it, is it now? 😉 Luv ya me dear!