hey girls,
we had some ideas at the meeting for some stuff to do this year and next year.
Glamping???
Visiting the fire station???
Visiting the retirment home???
Night Of the Living Dead- play??? need pricing
New years party??? :->
State fair? Science place? musium going?
Haunted hotel???
JGL ghost tour?
on a lot of these we need info but we hope to go over them at our next meeting.
-claire 
This is a poster available at StickerSisters.com. The site sells several products like pencils, t-shirts, stickers and buttons with girl power themes.
Check out SafeYouth.org for more information on abuse. Also, the Studio 2B focus book, Take Charge.
I’m still trying to decide if I’m brave enough to finish reading the new Harry Potter book - ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’. After I finished chapter 1 I started watching endless episodes of Spongebob Squarepants cartoons to get the ick out of my brain. I’ve been told it gets tamer after that chapter, but we’ll see.
Well, as you can tell I’m sensitive. Anyway, I caught a tip-off from the New Moon blog. J.K. Rowling just posted a suprising new note on her Web site about this skinny-obsessed world. According to her note, “I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ’shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny?” She encourages girls to be more like Hermmione and less like the looks-obsessed Pansy Parkinson.
I agree with Rowling. I would rather be known for being a good friend, for being strong and caring than how thin or popular I am. I hate the fact that a plus-size model is a size 12, but the national average size of a woman is a 14. Sounds a tad off. Or that 400 years ago buxom, curvy women were considered the ideal, beautiful and desirable. If the people of the 16th century Renaissance had ever seen one of today’s famous ‘it-girls’ they would be aghast at their sickliness. An overweight woman of the Renaissance was considered healthy and well-nourished. It was also a sign of great wealth and status. If only!
From Bodywatch.us: An example of female beauty during the Renaissance can be seen in Boticelli’s Birth of Venus. Painted in 1485, this painting depicts the birth of the Roman Goddess of beauty, Venus. She has just been “born” and raised out of the sea, and divine beings rush to cover her with a cloak. Notice how Venus is indeed full-figured. If this same subject were to be painted today, how do you think Venus’s body would look?
According to MindontheMedia.org:
I guess I could throw numerous other statistics at you, but I think it’s easier to just understand your own feelings and talk to your friends, your mom or grandmothe or any other woman you trust. Chances are they feel the same way, too.
I just found the cutest Web site - Let’s Get Primitive, The Urban Girl’s Guide to Camping. That is so genius. Looks like it is based off a new book with the same title. Are we urban or more suburban?? Oh, well I have to get this book!
As you can see from the Web site, they have a contest going. Here’s the information:
Calling campers, wannabee campers, and writers with a sense of humor. Ten Speed Press is running a 500-word essay contest. Tell us your worst camping trauma. Share your backcountry disaster. Spill the beans and you could win a nifty 2-person Coleman tent, a camp cocktail set, and a copy of Let’s Get Primitive! Essays will be judged on originality, humor, writing style, and degree of calamity by the Queen of Camping Mishap, me!
Somebody please enter! This is hilarious!
Have you ever seen the movie ‘Troop Beverly Hills’? How they went “roughing it” and after two hours, ditched their campsite for the comforts of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Many people it seems are now embracing the outdoors - but with the luxuries of home (or a resort). FYI - a SU glamping trip is in the works!
Interesting…
Ditch the Smelly Sleeping Bag and Go Glamping - Glamorous Camping, USA Today - March 6, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) - Did a bad experience turn you off to camping? Maybe your tent leaked in a rainstorm or you shivered all night in a borrowed, smelly sleeping bag. Or that thin foam pad you were trying to sleep on didn’t do much to protect your back from the rocky, uneven ground beneath your tent.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Tour companies and resorts now offer luxury camping, and the term “glamping” - shorthand for glamorous camping - is starting to turn up in reports from the United Kingdom and Canada. The New York Post recently mentioned “glamping” in an article on a new website for luxury travel, www.globorati.com.
… more
Fluffing It, Newsweek - May 19, 2007
Forget dirt, bugs and cold rain seeping through canvas. Camping doesn’t have to mean roughing it anymore. A range of cushy tents and designer accessories has created a popular new kind of outdoor holiday: “glamping,” short for glamorous camping. The revolution started in Britain, with Kate Moss and Sienna Miller combining mudproof Wellies and coutoure mini-dresses at festivals in Glastonbury. This year Marks & Spencer will stock a special glamping line, including floral tent pegs ($7 each; marksandspencer.com).
Doesn’t it just sound like these people are wusses? Be brave! Get dirty! Don’t use your cell phone for three days! It’s called getting away, communing with nature. No luxuries. That’s my kind of camping!
This guy has a some what of a good point. But he has no right to be dissing girl scouts and there cookies. There are more vaireties in cookie then ever before. From selection of healthier cookies, that has less trans-fat, and cookies for diabetics. The cookies are original then anything you can buy on the market today. The cookies have been around since Juliet Low started making them with her troop. Since then girl scout cookies have been wrapped in American cultural and been a American favorite snack. You can always remember the little girl scouts knocking on the door asking “would you like to buy girl scout cookies” since you where a little kid. They last a year cause you can freeze them and save them for that movie night with your family. So this guy can dis girl scout cookies all he wants to because what goes around comes around. So don’t let one guy change your mind because he wants to ruin a little girl scout spirit. I mean what about them boy scouts pop corn. Take that as a thought. Thank you for reading a taking it in :]
love always
bgfgs
HEY YA’ALL!! ITS ARLEAN!! UM I’M GOING INTO 9TH GRRADE, i love to dance, cook, swim, i love band WTB HONEY!!
i’m apart of bgfg and it’s awesome, and our leader is even awesomer!! we do alot of fun things and we have bunches of fun doing it!! so seriously if your curious talk to robyn!! don’t be afraid or nervous to talk to her and she wont yell @ you or anyting like that i promise!! -LOVE ALWAYS ARLEAN!!- 
Dear John Mayer,
Waiting on the world to change. Really? I’m going to go ahead and disagree with you on this one. I admit our generation can at times be more obsessed with personal accolades and complaining then doing something about the disarray we see in the world. But not all of us are just sitting around waiting for the world to change. I think our generation more than any before us has the capacity, and I have witnessed, is making a positive difference. Maybe this just happens in small doses and can be hard to notice, but little acts of change can add up to something big. Who was it who said “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Don’t get me wrong, John. Your first album, ‘No Such Thing’, really spoke to my 19 year-old, searching and undecided self. I questioned everything I did and you understood that. And then you grew your hair out and started dating that… anyway, my point is you should try writing a song that doesn’t just state the problem but gives this generation some hope.
I still love you!!
xoxoxo Robyn
I found this really cute Girl Scout scrapbooking stuff at Michael’s today. I didn’t buy any of it but I really wanted to. Afterall I don’t have a scrapbook! Anyway, I thought I would pass the info along to you guys. Just go check it out at Michael’s or visit the manufacturer’s Web site at: K&Company.
