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Reply to: #30561 by sunnygirl
Aug 1, 2006 4:51am
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We have counties around us here in Georgia that the students started today!! That means the teachers started last week. Can you imagine?

bzmom
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Reply to: #30561 by sunnygirl
Aug 1, 2006 4:59am
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Yeah, none of that school stuff. Turn those pencils into Marvy markers, those books into logs, and ink up that chick's feet. Sheesh!
-CCLB
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Reply to: #30561 by sunnygirl
Aug 1, 2006 5:25am
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ahem, my *kids* started school TODAY. Teachers have already been hard at work. Count your blessings!

MoonBunny
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Reply to: #30561 by sunnygirl
Aug 1, 2006 9:19am
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Okay, I have to admit, that back to school theme was a glitch. =) It was never supposed to go up today! I set it to go up September 1st which I figured was a more "traditional" time for school starting (though admittedly, schools starting the day after Labor Day seems to be becoming quite rare nowdays).

Because I hadn't created any themes for August (not a single one!), it skipped through that month and started executing the code for September 1st. Sorry for the false alarm, but that theme was WAY too early for most people! =)

-- Ryan
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Reply to: #30608 by Green Tortuga
Aug 1, 2006 9:48am
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need an image/design for august? how about a blazin sun? teehee
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Reply to: #30608 by Green Tortuga
Aug 1, 2006 9:57am
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Not really too early for us. We start in 16 days (Aug. 17).

Knit Wit
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Reply to: #30618 by the pink dragon
Aug 1, 2006 12:33pm
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a theme of hot sun and kids playing in the sprinkler would be fun for an august theme!!
:-)
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Reply to: #30608 by Green Tortuga
Aug 1, 2006 1:32pm
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No!! I liked the pencils!! I liked how each page looked like notebook paper. And it's not too early. All the stores are having back to school sales and our school starts the 14th.

Now where's that link to the instructions for setting your own theme for AQ...


Good to know I'll see them again next month, if not sooner!

sahm2girls
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Reply to: #30661 by Dixie
Aug 1, 2006 1:42pm
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Something for the 'dog days' of summer? How about sizziling eggs on a sidewalk? Melting popsicles? Where's that list of special days in August from the new postal ring...

Oh! How about lions for Leo birthdays this month?
What about our neighbors? Any good holidays in August for Canada? Or England?


sahm2girls
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Reply to: #30608 by Green Tortuga
Aug 1, 2006 1:52pm
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School. not again. We start August 25th. -_- not to mention good old band camp and drivers ed start next week. where did summer vacation go??
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Reply to: #30677 by Pink Muffin of Doom
Aug 1, 2006 2:02pm
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Quote good old band camp


They actually have those?? There are actually people out there that can say "This one time...at band camp..."?? *hehehe*
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Reply to: #30680 by Trekkie Gal
Aug 1, 2006 2:36pm
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Quote They actually have those?? There are actually people out there that can say "This one time...at band camp..."?? *hehehe*


...I am ashamed to admit how many of my high school stories start out exactly that way....and now that I teach high school music, they do again! *blush*
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Reply to: #30680 by Trekkie Gal
Aug 1, 2006 2:49pm
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kinda..we have to go learn how to march and learn drill and the music everyday 8am to 3:30 in the heat. -_- it's terrible. and then there's night band camp which goes in the evening for a week which isn't as bad. and then we have practice every monday wednesday and friday until november. football games are on friday nights, and we have to go, and Competitions take our entire saturdays in october. But it really is fun, and you make a lot of friends. but man is it tiring.
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Reply to: #30689 by Pink Muffin of Doom
Aug 1, 2006 3:10pm
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>>>>>kinda..we have to go learn how to march and learn drill and the music everyday 8am to 3:30 in the heat. -_- it's terrible. and then there's night band camp which goes in the evening for a week which isn't as bad. and then we have practice every monday wednesday and friday until november. football games are on friday nights, and we have to go, and Competitions take our entire saturdays in october. But it really is fun, and you make a lot of friends. but man is it tiring.


Having been a band booster mom for several years, YOU GO GIRL!!!! My kids got untold advantages from band and camp...despite the heat and long practices and days and days. I was right there with them and I loved every minute too.
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Reply to: #30661 by Dixie
Aug 1, 2006 5:17pm
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Here's my August Idea - STATE FAIR. Why? Because Indiana is celebrating its 150th State Fair this year. That's mind-boggling to me. Not that 150 years is a long time, but that our fellow men and women have come together to make it happen for 150 years.

Just don't make the banner .. pork tenderloins or fried twinkies on a stick.

speedsquare
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Reply to: #30724 by speedsquare
Aug 1, 2006 5:37pm
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Quote Just don't make the banner .. pork tenderloins or fried twinkies on a stick.


Hoosiers on a stick? I'm not really sure what a hoosier is, so the possibilties are endless! =)

-- Ryan
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Reply to: #30731 by Green Tortuga
Aug 1, 2006 6:30pm
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>>>Hoosiers on a stick? I'm not really sure what a hoosier is, so the possibilties are endless! =)

-- Ryan


It's a sullying of "who's here"....... Indiana version of run it together....sort of like swimmin' and runnin' and dancin' (don't pronounce the g)
zoe
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Reply to: #30749 by zoemomma
Aug 1, 2006 6:36pm
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Quote It's a sullying of "who's here".......


Thank you. I wondered that myself.

Shiloh
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Reply to: #30731 by Green Tortuga
Aug 1, 2006 6:42pm
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Quote I'm not really sure what a hoosier is


I've lived in Indiana for 11 years and I still don't know!
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Reply to: #30608 by Green Tortuga
Aug 1, 2006 7:10pm
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Thank you for taking the pencils off!!!!!!!

Music Woman
(breathing a sigh of relief that there are still almost four weeks before school!)
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Reply to: #30758 by Bungalow Boxer
Aug 1, 2006 7:40pm
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Quote Music Woman
(breathing a sigh of relief that there are still almost four weeks before school!)


School started here in Seminole County, Florida yesterday, July 31. Luckily for my son, we moved from Seminole to Volusia County, Florida, so he got a one-week reprieve and starts August 7th.
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Reply to: #30608 by Green Tortuga
Aug 1, 2006 7:52pm
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Quote Because I hadn't created any themes for August (not a single one!), it skipped through that month and started executing the code for September 1st. Sorry for the false alarm, but that theme was WAY too early for most people! =)


What!??? No August themes!?
Ryan, i'll have to fix that for you. At least once.

*nods*

CQ (off to brainstorm ideas)
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Reply to: #30690 by zoemomma
Aug 1, 2006 8:41pm
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I went to band camp too--sort of. I was color guard. Those girls in the hot-pants who wave the flags! :-) We marched and marched in the hot sun at Campball College in NC (now Campbell University!) I did it for two summers in a row during high school. (I was the leader and had to go to camp to learn new routines and skills with that flag! :-)

Only two girls on the squad went, me and my second in command. We would come home and work with the band leaders to create the routines for their music and then teach the routines to the rest of the squad.

It was a lot of work and it was always terribly hot. That's pretty much all I remember about camp. Being tired all the time and being hot all the time. Laying on the top of your dorm room bed because it was too hot to get under the sheet even! And marching towards the water fountains on the ballfields and if we messed up, they would march us in circles until we got it right and then we could march straight to the water fountain. UGH!

I don't know if people were hooking up, I know my friends and I were too hot and sweaty to even think about getting close to a guy! Ewww!

-Amanda from Seattle
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Reply to: #30784 by Amanda from Seattle
Aug 1, 2006 8:47pm
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ah. Color guard. I was on Color Guard last year. No fun. I remember last year during the summer band camp thinking about how hot it was and tiring it was. and then during competition in October in the cut up tank top and black capris (our theme was rock and roll, our costumes were awful) grasping on to a freezing metal bar and tossing it in the air wishing I was warm. I think i'm going to like playing Piccolo this year a lot better. You get to wear a nice warm band uniform. ^-^
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Reply to: #30787 by Pink Muffin of Doom
Aug 1, 2006 8:53pm
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Quote grasping on to a freezing metal bar and tossing it in the air wishing I was warm.
I was in a parade at Carolina Beach, NC one summer and it was so hot and I was sweating so much that I made a move with my flag and it totally flew out of my hands --they were so wet with sweat-- My best friend played piccolo and she was marching right beside me and she cracked up laughing so hard that she couldn't finish the piece they were playing. I retrieved my flag and just kept marching as we were laughing our heads off!

-Amanda from Seattle
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Reply to: #30791 by Amanda from Seattle
Aug 1, 2006 8:55pm
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once, for a Christmas parade, we used swing flags and I beaned a saxaphone player in the head. he didn't like me very much for it.
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Reply to: #30689 by Pink Muffin of Doom
Aug 1, 2006 9:45pm
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We actually used to go away for band camp. The bands around here just have "camp" at school each day. There was one week of "pre-band camp" when we learned the music, then the week away to learn the routines and practice the music, and, of course, to spend plenty of spare time doing things we shouldn't have been doing. 8-) I was a drummer in marching band, and we had a great time--although those drums can get pretty heavy, especially in August in Georgia!

My sister has all the drill team horror stories--but she loved it so much that she spent 4 years at UGA twirling flags for the Redcoats. She built up some great arm muscles.

Booknut
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Reply to: #30787 by Pink Muffin of Doom
Aug 2, 2006 5:36am
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All this talk of band camp is bringing back memories of long long ago!! I too played the piccolo in band-what a fun instrument-unless you are playing Stars & Strips Forever!!!! That's the biggie!! Of course only piccolo players probably know what I mean!
Good Luck PMOD....
:)
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Reply to: #30829 by kwmom
Aug 2, 2006 6:54am
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I like my piccolo (I just got it for my birthday) but I have to say I enjoy playing my flute alittle better, I like the tone. And I've never playing Stars and Stripes for Ever, but having heard the song, I can imagine the sheet music.
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Reply to: #30838 by Pink Muffin of Doom
Aug 2, 2006 7:04am
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I wanted to play the flute, but the band teacher told me I had to play clarinet. :P So I did...for 7 years. And I was in the marching band. But we never had band camp. We had enough trouble getting enough band members to show up in the summer for the 4th of July parade.

TG