{"id":4164,"date":"2012-08-16T22:27:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2012-08-17T00:23:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T07:23:51","slug":"7-quick-takes-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=4164","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: Camp Songs, Road Trips, and Speed Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s Shark Week on <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/\" title=\"Discovery Channel\">Discovery Channel.<\/a><\/strong>  Someone posted this video of &#8220;Baby Shark&#8221; in honor of Shark Week and as it&#8217;s a camp song and as a former camp counselor, I think these songs need to be shared.  This video is from a Boy Scout camp in Connecticut and as usual, the Boy Scouts know how to do these songs well.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baby Shark Song\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cPaM0y4VRps?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I think we need to add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KDdJB5ojdvI&#038;feature=relmfu\" title=\"The Penguin Song\">The Penguin Song<\/a> for good measure.<\/strong>  It&#8217;s another camp song that I learned from some members of my Bible study in college who learned it as YMCA camp counselors.  I have memories of standing outside Marianne&#8217;s (an awesome ice cream parlor in Santa Cruz) singing it.  I&#8217;m pretty sure it would have been banned in the Girl Scouts because it looks like you&#8217;re mocking people with mental disabilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>OK&#8230; throwing a question out to my readers.<\/strong>  What were your favorite camp songs?  They can be from whatever camps you attended &#8212; Girl Scout, Boy Scout, church, CYO, whatever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By the time you read this, I&#8217;ll be down in southern California with Jon, Daniel, and my in-laws.<\/strong>  Jon&#8217;s birthday is Saturday and he wants to take a weekend off.  Since he hasn&#8217;t actually had one in like&#8230; a year, we&#8217;re doing it!  He has a few surprises waiting for him on this trip so hopefully it will be enjoyable for him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I got a few books read on the way down.<\/strong>  No, I wasn&#8217;t the one driving.  I finished <u>The Wurst Is Yet to Come<\/u> by Mary Daheim, read <u>The Fifty Shames of Earl Grey<\/u> by Fanny Merkin (a.k.a Andrew Shaffer &#8212; it&#8217;s a parody of THAT OTHER BOOK, stop judging me!) before starting\/finishing <u>The Cinnamon Roll Murder<\/u> by Joanne Fluke, and starting on <u>Clergy Killers<\/u> by G. Lloyd Rediger.  Yes, I do read that fast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My in-laws are the only people I know with more cats than me.<\/strong>  I think the current count is 5 or 6?  My mother-in-law is seriously deserving of the hashtag #crazycatlady that I bat around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a>.  My sister-in-law has three chihuahuas but we don&#8217;t talk about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong>&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why yes, I&#8217;m aware that I&#8217;m not #1 this week in posting my Quick Takes.<\/strong>  I&#8217;ve been busy taking care of my kid and attempting to be social with my in-laws?  Oh yes&#8230; also catching up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\" title=\"Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> because I didn&#8217;t get a chance to be online until tonight.<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Jen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\">ConversionDiary.Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; It&#8217;s Shark Week on Discovery Channel. 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