Because pancakekiller said so, and she's the birthday girl.
we had our annual training thing for circle k this weekend. last year it was an absolute blast- what could be better than being locked in a basement for three days with your friends and being forced to play dorky games? but i don't like this year's board much, so i wasn't looking forward to this.
i headed up friday night with kaitlin. wee! we got there, ate chinese, and had our first meeting of the smoker's club for the weekend. then we had a board meeting. i was very annoyed, because people were very rude and talkative and ugh, i wanted to SMACK people. who takes a phone call in the middle of a meeting without leaving the table?? i don't think we did anything else friday night. just had smoker's club, sat by the pool with kaitlin, annoyed people, and went to bed.
saturday we had a full day of events. first was breakfast, hurrah. and smoker's club. *g* (seriously, i usually smoke, at most, two cigarettes a day. from 7pm friday to midnight saturday, i smoked TWELVE. we had a lot of meetings.) the first activity involved us being lost in the mountains and choosing what supplies we needed to survive. whatever. then we talked about why we're in circle k. then, the best activity of the day!
we split into two groups. one group was blind, and the other was silent. i was in the blind group. the silent group couldn't talk, but they could make whatever their designated noise was. the silent group looked at a little lego man, which was then taken apart. the pieces were hidden around the basement. the silent group had to help the blind group find the pieces without touching the blind people OR the legos. my silent person kept leading me around in circles and into walls, so i started cheating and opening my eyes. *g* then we had to reassemble the lego man, still blind and silent! it took us over an hour, but it was a lot of fun. (shut up, i know we're dorks.)
then we went out to the pool for a bit, but i didn't bring a bathing suit, so i stayed dry. we played some scavenger hunt riddle game, which i rocked at. except then there were MATH questions, and even though my team contained TWO treasurers, we still failed. oh well.
at the next smoke break, we were talking to sharon about what else we had that afternoon. she told us that we had a conflict resolution workshop, and we asked if we could stage a conflict cos it'd be fun. she said no :(
blah blah boring workshop about public speaking. smoke break before budget workshop. sharon was very annoyed with christina (they were running the weekend) because christina didn't copy stuff for their workshop later. she asked us to send christina up to talk to her when we went down for the workshop.
blah blah budget. the two of them got into a huge fight, and brought it downstairs. as soon as sharon yelled "i don't even want to GO to your wedding anymore!" the elected board all looked at each other and giggled. these are the same two people who taught about showing up to things on time by planning our first training weekend and telling us all the wrong time. the chairs were all "WTF?" because the two of them are like, best friends. heh. afterwards, they were like "and what did we learn?" "not to trust kiwanians" was not the correct answer! heeeeee.
blah blah. got to act out how not to handle conflict, hahahahaha. hmmm. after dinner, kaitlin and i decided to go swimming, bathing suits be damned! much fun was had. then we did some stupid game involving pennies.
that night we did group bonding. we sat in a circle, lit some candles, turned out all the lights, and answered questions. we split it into two halves. during the first half, i almost cried about 4 times, which is horrible. it was stuff like "what are you most proud of?" and other things that just really got to me, because i do have the most amazing friends in the world, and i know that. plus people kept talking about their moms, and there are currently some issues which are upsetting me.* during the second half, the questions were a lot less personal. it was stuff like "what does 'friend' mean to you?" and "what do you think is the biggest problem for today's youth?" so after, we were outside smoking and i said that i liked the first half a lot more, because the second half wasn't really personal. jackie was all "the second half was so relevent! it was so important! blah blah attitude blah blah ignoring what i actually said blah blah shut up!" UGH.
and frigging MARTY. he was all "i love last year's dboard cos we're a family. even after people calling each other out at dcon, we all still came together and we still love each other." no, not so much. a lot of people still think marty is a spineless little shit for the stunt he pulled at dcon, myself included. i'm trying to move on and not let it effect how i work with him, but he seriously thinks we're friends and all is forgiven, which, no. you do not call me out like that in a room full of my friends, more than once, and expect me to treat you the same after. i'm not the only person who thought he was an ass, so UGH. so annoying.
other than him and jackie, the weekend was a blast. played some pool, annoyed some people, bonded with everyone who matters, and won pins for being awesome. it wasn't as good as last year, but half of last year's board is like my freaking FAMILY, so yeah.
i think i've run out of things to say.
*my mom hasn't talked to me in about three weeks, and i have no idea why, and it's starting to piss me off.
i headed up friday night with kaitlin. wee! we got there, ate chinese, and had our first meeting of the smoker's club for the weekend. then we had a board meeting. i was very annoyed, because people were very rude and talkative and ugh, i wanted to SMACK people. who takes a phone call in the middle of a meeting without leaving the table?? i don't think we did anything else friday night. just had smoker's club, sat by the pool with kaitlin, annoyed people, and went to bed.
saturday we had a full day of events. first was breakfast, hurrah. and smoker's club. *g* (seriously, i usually smoke, at most, two cigarettes a day. from 7pm friday to midnight saturday, i smoked TWELVE. we had a lot of meetings.) the first activity involved us being lost in the mountains and choosing what supplies we needed to survive. whatever. then we talked about why we're in circle k. then, the best activity of the day!
we split into two groups. one group was blind, and the other was silent. i was in the blind group. the silent group couldn't talk, but they could make whatever their designated noise was. the silent group looked at a little lego man, which was then taken apart. the pieces were hidden around the basement. the silent group had to help the blind group find the pieces without touching the blind people OR the legos. my silent person kept leading me around in circles and into walls, so i started cheating and opening my eyes. *g* then we had to reassemble the lego man, still blind and silent! it took us over an hour, but it was a lot of fun. (shut up, i know we're dorks.)
then we went out to the pool for a bit, but i didn't bring a bathing suit, so i stayed dry. we played some scavenger hunt riddle game, which i rocked at. except then there were MATH questions, and even though my team contained TWO treasurers, we still failed. oh well.
at the next smoke break, we were talking to sharon about what else we had that afternoon. she told us that we had a conflict resolution workshop, and we asked if we could stage a conflict cos it'd be fun. she said no :(
blah blah boring workshop about public speaking. smoke break before budget workshop. sharon was very annoyed with christina (they were running the weekend) because christina didn't copy stuff for their workshop later. she asked us to send christina up to talk to her when we went down for the workshop.
blah blah budget. the two of them got into a huge fight, and brought it downstairs. as soon as sharon yelled "i don't even want to GO to your wedding anymore!" the elected board all looked at each other and giggled. these are the same two people who taught about showing up to things on time by planning our first training weekend and telling us all the wrong time. the chairs were all "WTF?" because the two of them are like, best friends. heh. afterwards, they were like "and what did we learn?" "not to trust kiwanians" was not the correct answer! heeeeee.
blah blah. got to act out how not to handle conflict, hahahahaha. hmmm. after dinner, kaitlin and i decided to go swimming, bathing suits be damned! much fun was had. then we did some stupid game involving pennies.
that night we did group bonding. we sat in a circle, lit some candles, turned out all the lights, and answered questions. we split it into two halves. during the first half, i almost cried about 4 times, which is horrible. it was stuff like "what are you most proud of?" and other things that just really got to me, because i do have the most amazing friends in the world, and i know that. plus people kept talking about their moms, and there are currently some issues which are upsetting me.* during the second half, the questions were a lot less personal. it was stuff like "what does 'friend' mean to you?" and "what do you think is the biggest problem for today's youth?" so after, we were outside smoking and i said that i liked the first half a lot more, because the second half wasn't really personal. jackie was all "the second half was so relevent! it was so important! blah blah attitude blah blah ignoring what i actually said blah blah shut up!" UGH.
and frigging MARTY. he was all "i love last year's dboard cos we're a family. even after people calling each other out at dcon, we all still came together and we still love each other." no, not so much. a lot of people still think marty is a spineless little shit for the stunt he pulled at dcon, myself included. i'm trying to move on and not let it effect how i work with him, but he seriously thinks we're friends and all is forgiven, which, no. you do not call me out like that in a room full of my friends, more than once, and expect me to treat you the same after. i'm not the only person who thought he was an ass, so UGH. so annoying.
other than him and jackie, the weekend was a blast. played some pool, annoyed some people, bonded with everyone who matters, and won pins for being awesome. it wasn't as good as last year, but half of last year's board is like my freaking FAMILY, so yeah.
i think i've run out of things to say.
*my mom hasn't talked to me in about three weeks, and i have no idea why, and it's starting to piss me off.