NOTE TO SELF: Carrot juice leaves a mustache like Kool-Aid! Check the mirror before talking to fellow campers!! Holy carrot mustache!!

Mike and Pete, my fellow campers, came over to chat. It seems like folks "watch" me for a while to see if "she REALLY is alone" and once they deduce that I am, they come on over. Two very funny things about this conversation 1) my ridiculous carrot mustache I didn't realize I had until I walked to the bathroom and 2) campers like to hear "your" story and all I want to do is hear "their" story! Mike was funny, he said "come on over later, we'd love to chat more, we're sick of hearing ourselves". Funny because I'm thinking the same thing! I'm sick of hearing myself talk and all I want is to be quiet and hear their story!! Guess we'll have to meet in the middle! :)

Back to the mustache... When I walked in the bathroom and saw my absurdly bright orange carrot mustache, I couldn't help but laugh out loud. When I was a kid, I loved to be outside with my brothers more than anything. So much so, I earned the nickname "bag-a-dirt" from my father. I much preferred building forts and playing in the dirt with trucks more than anything – anything outside and anything with my brothers. I cleaned up well, but you had to tie me down to brush my hair or take a shower (hence the nickname). Also, I loved my Kool-Aid! When we were kids, we played outside ALL day. You would come running in for dinner when your parents called, then run right back outside after eating and play again 'til dark. One day, when I was about 12 and finally started caring about what I looked like, I stopped in the bathroom and actually looked in the mirror before heading back outside to play. HOLY TOLEDO! I had an enormous, insanely bright pink Kool-Aid mustache. It went from ear to ear! I looked like the Joker. I went screaming to my mother and asked her why she didn't tell me!! "How could you let me go out like this!" She replied, "I didn't think you cared." Haha For many years I didn't, but eventually I did. Had that wonderfully funny flashback as I looked in the mirror. At least I'm healthier now and it was organic carrot juice instead of Kool-Aid!!!

I bet Mike and Pete are still laughing...