oh sweet jeebus.

so. camping. i'm going camping on july 19th. well, thats the date set so far. i'm going camping with some old friends from high school. i haven't seen these people in a little over 2 years. they have kids. and husbands. and weird stupid grown up stuff like that. they work 9 - 5 and pay bills and make dinner. i slept in my clothes from yesterday and sat in my bedroom playing sega genisis all day. and now i'm watching cartoons. i can't do that grown up stuff.

on the other hand, it'll be nice to see them again. plus, it'll give me a good excuse to play with fire. not that i *need* an excuse to play with fire mind you.

i haven't been camping in years though. i think the last place i went camping was.. somewhere in missouri. or maybe it was kentucky. i just remember one summer when dad loaded up me and the brother and we drove to civil war battle sites in a festiva (i *hate* those cars like you wouldn't believe), and we camped at all sorts of places.. and it was impossible to sleep at one of the places.. rocks where always poking in your back no matter where you pitched the tent.

oh, and there was this one adventure when dad was still dating ruth. we ("we" being me, dad, the brother, ruth, and her two kids copper and arlen) were camping.. somwhere, i don't know where, and arlen and i decided to go fishing before breakfast. so off we went, happily fishing (we didn't catch anything, but we did pretend we were Ninja Turtles) and when we came back, they had breakfast all ready. like any good camping breakfast, it was pancakes. except these weren't you're normal pancakes. they didn't feel like getting some fresh water to cook with, so they use root beer. yes. so. we had root beer pancakes. they were.. interesting.

i think that might have been when we drove down to texas. oh yeah, 4 kids in the back of a small pickup truck for 2 weeks. how fun.