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So I have 92 books left to read this year. I really need to get reading.

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I think I am the only one online right now. Fiona are you asleep?

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Just when you all thought I'd gone.

So I am so mad right now. I have been a girl scout leader for over 5 years. My daughters have both been in Girl Scouts.

Okay so my youngest daughter's troop is going on a vacation and they are excluding her 100%. They won't let her go on the trip, we paid our dues we've helped earn money. I am so angry!

Needless to say Girl Scouts of the USA just got a nice little email from me. It was very hard to be nice in the email. But I decided that I'd go above the GS council & just go straight to GS of USA. They aren't suppose to exclude any girl. Great organization that allows this to happen.

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So I did a stupid thing today. I went to the book store to get a book for my daughters honors english and white Tiger that I'm reading in another GR book group. I got exceedingly side tracked and yeah forgot to get White Tiger! Plus, I made a grocery list on several postit's and oh yeah left them on my desk at work. Then forgot to buy milk.

I am such an airhead sometimes. Yeah! I really need help maybe turn my arms into postits so I know what I need to get and what not.

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Petra: did you read some of the Jung books. There were a few that Ken had suggested but I didn't put them in my TBR list. I hope maybe you had some, if I am remembering correctly.

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Very Random thought: Wouldn't it be interesting to see which groups had the most members and which groups had the most threads/posts. I am just guessing that TNBBC would have the most posts.

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Okay off to reading land.

[Kandice]

Rachel had only 4 hours of labor, so DOES NOT deserve Emilee's sympathy!!!

I read Moby Dick, and I really enjoyed it. Yes, there was a LOT of filibustering, but I still enjoyed it. I can't believe how many people really didn't like it. I was not forced to read it for school, either, I was just trying to read some "classics" I felt i had missed out on.

I asked in the Rant, but why wont they let your daughter go?

[Ann from S.C.]

Emilee, Whats with the girl scouts? I thought they were a good group for little girls!

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Kandice was it you that had over a day of labor. I wonder if I mixed up the reading.

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Ann: I don't know. I am so upset. It is so hard when you pick your daughter up and she gets in the car then just starts sobbing. She told me last night they did this to another girl. I called her mom. She wasn't even told about the meeting last night and her daughter is upset because they have been excluding her all year.

They aren't suppose to treat little kids like this. I thought it was for "all girls everywhere". Apparently, not.

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Sorry Kandice it was you that I feel extremely sorry for. That is a very long labor. I read too many threads and lost my memory.

[Lisa Julianna]

Oh Emilee, You definatly need to complain to the head of the Girl Scouts. They can not do that. Hearing that makes me so mad. Was the decision made by her troop leader?

[Allison]

That chamber pot is kind of pretty...although why it needs a cushion on top is beyond me.

As for the "stew pot"...I just hope someone didn't think the dried in stuff at the bottom was burnt on from cooking, and decide to leave it in for flavor like a cast iron pan or something. hahahaha.

I HATE groups like Girl Scouts...or whoever...who get leaders that make "alliances" with some parents and exclude other families...argh. I HATE THAT. I grew up in a small town, and almost every organization worked like that. It is pure nonsense.

Moby Dick is on my to read list...I'm very curious to read it now.

[Kandice]

I love that link Fiona!

Emilee, my daughter was in Girl Scouts from Daisies until 3rd grade. She decided near the end of 3rd grade she wasn't going to continue because soccer had become so important to her, and there just weren't enough days in a week. I had discussed it with her troop leader, because she HAD sold cookies, and we had participated in all the fund raisers for GS camp that summer. She still wanted to attend, even though it would be her last event. The leader ended up not giving me any of the info, and when I called she conveniently never answered or returned my calls. When I finally drove to her house to get permission slips and whatnot, she said it was too late. Darby had not registered. I was furious, and Darby was so hurt.
She loved GS but it was just one too many things, and I felt as if she was being punished for making a hard but responsible decision. The troop is only as good as the leader. There are lots of wonderful leaders, but if you have one that's unfair or "political", it's just not the same experience it could be. I'm really sorry.

[Jessica]

Wow, these stories make me glad I never did Girl Scouts. I was a Brownie for one year but it just wasn't my thing.

[Allison]

Yeah, I never did either. I was a nerdy kid in elementary school. I just went to the library a lot.

[Jessica]

So I'm going to my ultimate job fair today. A whole bunch of sports teams are going to be there. It's my dream to work for a sports team so I really hope something pans out.

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Kandice: this is so sad! I am a leader for my older daughters troop and use to be for my younger daughter and I always treated the kids fair regardless. I had a few girls that were in single family households and needed a little extra attention and i made sure they got it. Now that I am going through a divorce and everything is falling apart around us i would have expected the same treatment that I gave but this is just sick and wrong!

The sad part is that we are required to pay a registration fee and then these adult's exclude the children! That is total Crap!

kandice your daughter is better off. I am actually not going to let my daughters do GS next year. The sad part is that my daughter that is being excluded loves girl scouts so she is extremely heart broken!

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Jessica good luck @ the job fair!

[Lisa Julianna]

Good Luck Jessica....out of curiousity what do you do?

[Jeane]

Fiona wrote: "I'm hoping to slowly work my way northwards to Scotland and find myself someone with a cute scottish accent."

Great idea! And till then it would mean lots of reading time and get paid! Go for it!

[Jeane]

Fiona wrote: "I wonder what would have happened had we not had ww2? I think ww2/the holocaust pretty much killed the eugenics movement off and antisemitism is now very much scorned upon. Though it's surprising h..."

Fiona, more people should think like that for me. First of all I don't agree with what happned in the WW's but you can never be complete sure that the world would be worse if the Germans would have won. Just like you wouldn't have been able to know if we would now live in a world after they won the war, we would only been able to wonder too.

Our german housemate was teacher here in Dublin and the first thing the kids asked him was if he liked Hitler. He couldn't believe they would expect him to like Hitler and would treat him first different because he is German. But apparently many german girls of my age are still looked at for what happened when they weren't even born.

[Jeane]

Allison wrote: "Jews...Christians...we all eat, sleep and die.

Anybody know that song Live and Let Die? I love that song. I don't remember who sings it."

Allison, I like your first line!

[Jeane]

Rachel wrote: "Do you think he is too big? Should I make him smaller?"

you know it is kind of awkward when you wanna go fast through these posts at your work and you don't know that there will suddenly be only pictures of guys coming up and big pictures!!!!

[Jeane]

Emilee wrote: "Jeane: I thought MD was okay really. Granted I wouldn't give it rave reviews I think I only gave it 2 or 3 stars. I won't ever read it again. I don't know why I bought it but maybe one of my childr..."

yes all the encyclopeadia stuff could have been left out and it would have been a little bit better. I wonder if i gave it two stars or stayed with one star....:-)

[Jeane]

Emilee wrote: "So I have 92 books left to read this year. I really need to get reading."

I wanna do better than last year but will be difficult. Just one difference with then and now. 2008: didn't work for the whole year and spend my time mainly in belgium hoping to leave and being lonely ebcause my boyfriend was somewhere on a cruiseship) and in Italy. 2009, have a full time job from 7.30-16.30. But for now I am doing surprisely well. I read 11 for this year and am reading three of which one is almsot done.

[Jeane]

Kandice wrote: "Rachel had only 4 hours of labor, so DOES NOT deserve Emilee's sympathy!!!

I read Moby Dick, and I really enjoyed it. Yes, there was a LOT of filibustering, but I still enjoyed it. I can't belie..."

Kandice I also read it ebcasue I like to see what I think about the classics and lots of time they are very good ones I wouldn't have picked up if they weren't classics. I was wondering already how Emilee came to 'it was okay' but hmmmyou enjoyed it????? what did you enjoy in it????? :-)

[Jeane]

Allison wrote: "Yeah, I never did either. I was a nerdy kid in elementary school. I just went to the library a lot."

Me too. I actually never did anything social linked to school or other scouts things or whatever. For me it was library, reading at home or spending time with my dogs. And I never felt like I missed anything of those things.

[Jeane]

Jessica wrote: "So I'm going to my ultimate job fair today. A whole bunch of sports teams are going to be there. It's my dream to work for a sports team so I really hope something pans out."

Good luck, let us know how it went. I jsut to have a dream that kept going back for years. i would be a photographer in Italy and mainly for calcio and I would always spend most time doing my job during matches and so of the best team! That was a dream that combined the job I wanted to do, the country I want to live and one of my big interests. For the moment none is in my current life:-)

[Kandice]

I really think the GS experience comes down to the leader. We didn't have a very good leader. I can't complain a lot, because, with my hours, I could not have stepped up and done it, but she was a bit political. My daughter was incredibly hurt, because the one thing that helped her decide, was that she would get her last hurrah of camp.
I really commend you for leading your girls' troops. I so wish I had the time. I know a lot of girls at her school who are no longer involved with GS that I think would be if the leadership was different.
I was a GS and loved it! I'm just glad that there is so much else to occupy our girls' time. Soccer, Awanas, Choir, Drama club. I don't think there was such a selection when I was that age.
I'm sorry to hear about your divorce. I'm sure your daughter really appreciates your outrage on her behalf. Especially right now! Good luck.

[Allison]

*yawn* these threads aren't doing a very good job of keeping me awake at work this afternoon.

[Allison]

something like that...

[Jeane]

we? no it can't be. funny that it is already 8pm here and I ma thinking about sleeping and tomorrow getting up early again and a new day starting....

going to read Rebus now and have my camomillina....


wake up Allison!!!!! make mountain of your TBR pile in the meantime!

[Allison]

haha. Its 2 in the afternoon here and I still have three dull hours of work left...

[Allison]

Jeane, you should be off reading Outlander!!

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Jeane: I really liked how MD ended. i enjoyed the part when they came to the French ship and scammed them out of the stuff inside the very deceased whale. I laughed as I thought that was rather amusing. i liked Quequad-he was a great character. i think i just spelled his name wrong too. I liked how he was selling heads in the beginnning.

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Kandice: it was always a chanllenge to be a leader because I work. But with my divorce and illness', death in the family I had to step down from one troop. It does come down to the leader. And they shouldn't pick favorites and play clique games but they do. i am so disappointed in my daughters leader. i thought she was better than that but apparently i was wrong.

[Jackie]

Allison wrote: "*yawn* these threads aren't doing a very good job of keeping me awake at work this afternoon."

I feel you! We had a "summer picnic" here at work and I'm in need of a hammock right now.

[Allison]

picnic?

yum. All I had was a measly frozen tv dinner.

[Jackie]

Yeah, we got a jump on summer although its cold out. Someone brought a tabletop grill and we had hotdogs, salads, chips, fruits, cookies.....

[Allison]

hot dogs...my favoriiiiiiiite. My husband is out of town on a business trip, but I was actually thinking about making MYSELF chili dogs for dinner tonight.

Its really cool your office does that though! We just have boring lunch meetings, and we get food from the same deli (it IS good-Jason's Deli) every single time.

[Jackie]

We use to celebrate everything...4th of July, Cinco de Mayo...etc. But last year the "party planners" got laid off, so that nixed the parties. People are kind of afraid to suggest anything. I was surprised that someone organized it, but no one is really taking credit for the idea.

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Rachel I love it! The cookies are totally unhealthy and you end up eating them all in one sitting anyway!

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Oh I so wish it was warm for me to grill. I am so missing the warm.

Petra I might have to come visit you.

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Jackie your office sounds fun. Mine is very drab.

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I think I am the only one here tonight. Anyone else out there.

I am utterly bored and I should really go read. I just need to relax it was so busy at work. I also need something sweet. I am always so dang hungry!

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So now you leave me for bed!

Sobbing :(

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Goodnight Fiona!

I should go vaccum then read. I'm off too!

[Jeane]

Allison wrote: "Jeane, you should be off reading Outlander!!"

Nono, Outlander is my work book. I read that one on the bus and during lunch. At home i am reading an Ian rankin and Jonathan Strange.