Camped with Girl Scouts and lived to tell the tale
July 28th, 2008
We’re home safe and sound from the girl scout camp out. I enjoyed it for the most part and enjoyed mobile blogging about it on my new blog. I’m telling you, mobile blogging, you have to give it a try. Too much fun!
So one of the GS moms is camera-happy and snaps about a zillion pics of everything we do and I have been hiding from her camera for the last three years, but lately I’m feeling so good about my fine self that I don’t hide from cameras anymore! At the end of the camp out, I took her SD card and copied the 200 photos to my computer and I a just now looking through them and, guess what guys? I’m still fat! Who knew? What a kick in the head.
I’m not being too hard on myself. I fully acknowledge and celebrate the fact that I have lost 35 lbs and look a hell of a lot better in these photos than I looked before but, hello, chubby much? And why the hell couldn’t I have looked at the photos and had this epiphany BEFORE I spent three days gorging on chips, cheetos, candy, hot dogs, etc.
Hopefully this little reality check will be the catalyst to getting back on plan.
Thanks to everyone who emailed re: the other blog. I wonder why the comments are not working for some? I am not savvy enough to figure it out, sorry! We are taking the kids to a giganto water park this coming weekend and I can’t wait to mobile blog about that! And I will be there hitting the slides in my bathing suit even though I’m still a fatty, so there.
Photos: one is the river that our property is on where we did the camp out. It’s really lovely. The other is our campfire (fueled by lighter fluid, thanks DH!). I’m the chubby one in the grey sweats, standing, probably shoving some kind of food product into my mouth.
July 28th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Yay! You’re back! I have so many questions about your camping experience but they also might be annoying so feel free not to answer them! haha.
so, you have land up in the wilderness where you can go camping? that sounds so nice! and you have a trailer on it? does that mean you can sleep in the trailer, or do you still camp in a tent? do you camp often? (i’m not much of a camper, but im intrigued by it, and might try to go a bit this coming year). does the trailer have a bathroom, or does one need to pee in the woods? yaaa, sorry for all the questions, but i’m jealous of your wilderness fun this weekend!
also, i’ve been reading through your c25k daily logs, they’ve been so helpful to me!
anyways, glad you’re back and that you had a fun weekend!
July 28th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Have fun at the water park. My kids went to the one in Idaho last week.
Glad you had a good time camping. My kids hate camping. I love it.
July 28th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Oh I am so there. I will be facing this soon as I am trying to talk myself into before and after pictures soon. You have accomplished so much and your mental image will become your reality eventually. Hopefully by October for that hot-momma costume you’re hoping for!
Loved the pics! i love camping!