Me and my coworkers in the junior leadership team at Wells Rec! Woooo
Here are a few of the many goings-on in my life lately:
-Went on our first overnight camping trip with our junior leadership kids with the rec camp. For me it included passing a semi truck that had burst into flames on the side of the interstate, discovering my borrowed tent was not waterproof (maybe it used to be about 50 years ago when it was made...?), making eggs for 27 and learning how to cook bacon, putting out a burger grease fire, driving my coworker to the hospital (she's fine now, just banged up her knee pretty good on our hike), driving a cargo van 8 hours total, teaching the children of Wells how to play Mafia, and so much more....overall a pretty good weekend with a couple stressful times. I'm glad to have the weekend to recover. I also now have to air out all my camping stuff since it got wet in my not-so-rain proof tent. I will be borrowing a better tent next time. Another camping/rafting trip next Wednesday-Friday
-I've discovered the horror of southern Maine/New Hampshire traffic. Yikes.
-got my hair cut today, by a guy, which is a first for me, but he was also the nicest person that's ever cut my hair. We had a great chat about travel and my hair and all kinds of things
-My cell phone took its final dive to the unforgiving pavement yesterday and that being about the 4th or 5th time I've dropped it in the past couple weeks it pretty much gave up on me and the screen went blank. I had to find an at&t store to see about getting a new phone and bought the absolute cheapest phone in existence. Strangely, even this $10 phone comes with a camera and internet access. I mean come on, I tried to be cheap and I still get more technology than I need! I still refuse to give in and follow everyone else by buying a smart phone. I'm afraid of the effects having constant internet access would have. It seems strange to me still to be connected every second of my life. There's convenience, and then there's just ridiculous. Someday maybe I'll give in, or maybe I'll live the rest of my life acting like an old grandpa saying "I don't understand all this technology, back in my day the only thing telephones could do was make phone calls!" sigh.
-the tape player in my car no longer works. Ugh. No, I don't listen to tapes in my car but I have a tape adapter hookup for my ipod and I was relying on that for music in my car because the radio hasn't worked for a couple years now. So driving has become an awfully boring and annoying thing lately.
-I'm going to New York next weekend with Jess and I am SO EXCITED. We're going to participate in the photographer nerd's holiday called "Manhattanhenge". It occurs twice a year and it is when the sun is exactly lined up with the streets of Manhattan so that you can look west at sunset and the sun will shine all the way down any street near the coast. It makes great photos and I've heard that people gather on street corners and stampede into the middle of the road at each walk signal to take photos of this solar/urban phenomenon so...Jess and I have decided to join in this occasion this year! We will also be meeting up with a friend of mine from CO who is also visiting NYC the same weekend. Should be a good time!
-Things people say in Maine that I've never heard people say anywhere else:
* Wicked, as in "it's wicked hot today!" (this one's my favorite)
*Youbetcha (one word)
*Spicket, as in, "go fill this bucket with water at the spicket" - this is similar to the word "spiget" which I have heard before which also may or may not be a word
*"I'm tellin' you", as in, "Boy it sure was wicket hot yesterday, I'm tellin' you"
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