today we are all back at camp for planning, which is a great big meeting that gets us ready for tom. when the kids arrive. Nothing to exciting today. Went to the mall and ran some errands, lunch with a friend, then back to camp for this meeting. All the Pool Fools are old staff, so we know what needs done and we are finished about 3 hours early! Liz w. loaned me Harry Potter 7, so I suppose i will start reading that tonight! I did go to the library today to get some books, so i am set up pretty good for the next 2 weeks.
I talked to my travel agency today. They are looking for jobs for me in Buffalo and Denver. I am aslo applying for jobs in the denver area. I really like it there, but am still up in the air about the whole thing. Saw something today about E.F. today on the computer, and just had to laugh, both at him and me. He is so pathetic! and i am so lucky! a little shout out to TIM (from omaha/den). talked to him today, and he has promised to send me some mail! for the rest of you who love the post office, feel free to send me letters anytime!

c/o Cradle Beach Camp~ staff
8038 old lakeshore
angola, ny 14006

oh and check out the new cradle beach website! it is amazing
cradlebeach.org

so far changeover has been great. I have slept a ton and am feeling much much much better. Last night 6 of us went to dinner and then to Harry Potter 5. It was fun to get out of camp and get into some airconditioning. We got back to camp late, and had a campfire. We have fires a lot, which is always a lot of fun.
Today has been much less low key. I slept in and then went to the car wash and vaccummed my car. It was super messy, and needed a good cleanup. Then just back to camp and laid out in my new bathing suit and tried to catch a few rays on my stark white tummy! not much success there, but more work tomarrow. Tonight i am going to go get my friend Keith ( he needs a ride back to camp) and we are going to go to Shakespeare in the Park to see Athello. It will be a good time. We do not have to work until 4pm Monday, so all day tomarrow is still time for me to chill. Wahoo!!!
A big THANKS to all of you who have sent me your numbers. I appreciate it! well....shower time! Oh....I got to move back to the Kelley house, which is where i lived 2nd session.I am back in the pool as a lifeguard this next session. Yippe! And i am helping the nurses to med intake on Tuesday, which will not be so easy, but will be a change of pace for a few hours.!

not a lot to say tonight. I am on duty in Tuskie, only my second night on so not too bad. Last night was our sleep out and we camped on the back porch....well....until 4am that is. Then is started to rain. The three councelors that were on, well...we had those boys up and back to the cabin and back asleep in less than 15 min. then it was sunshine day today...a big crazy day every session at camp and games in the field tonight. Needless to say, both the kiddos and the councelors are Exhausted! We played dodgeball, SPUD, and potato stamp tag, and an about 10miles doing all of this. Yikes. I am more than ready to get these boys home! I need some sleep!
My phone is working! i am not sure i love the new phone, but will adjust i suppose. So feel free to call or text me to let me know your number, as i lost all my numbers in the 'accident'. I am also not setting up my voice mail message untill i no longer sound like a man.!!! my voice is long gone and i have a raspy thing going on!! kinda sexy! ok...not really, but since i am stuck with this for awhile, ya gotta tell yourself something! anyway, boys go home FRIDAY!!! then i am off till Tues! Wahoo!

hey everyone! So I totally lost my phone last night in a tragic flushing accident. Long story, but it is now resting in peace with the fishes. I did get a new phone today, but it will not be activated until tomarrow! YIKES! it totally stresses me out and i am going a little nuts not being able to talk to anyone. I did NOT change my number however, so feel free to call anytime and i will re-add you to my phone book. i ran to the store today and bought a jacket, it is not warm here and I am freezing!{ sus---if you read this feel free to send me the pink stocking hat that is in the green tub in the pool table room ( the tub with all the stickers)}
So, Tuskie cabin! Another YIKES here. today was my day off, and Christmas at camp. I hung out here most of the day to just chill and see the kids respond to christmas, the decorations, Santa and the gifts. My 13 boys are very cute, sometimes very naughty, but for the most part, pretty well behaved. THere are always a few that drive ya absolutly insane, but i am doing ok with them. I was so nervous, as I have never been in "boys field"---the normal crazy boys. They are funny because at 10-12 years they all want to be really tough, but then always say yes to a goodnight hug when i tuck them in. just 5 more days and they go home, and 5 days is not that long!
so also looking for jobs. I head home in less than a month and need to problably be employeed by then. I am pretty sure right now taht i am headed back to colorado. I think i love it there a little too much to leave. Emily is close by, and she will be a year old, and i have friends there....so for now i am serching in CO! Time will tell. Things seem to be falling into place and working out just enough to make my life just about perfect! Other than the phone catrastrophy* i am great!
PLEASE CALL SOMETIME THIS WEEK SO I KNOW YOUR NUMBERS! love melissa

ok...so a very big week to catch everyone up on. 2nd session at camp is over and 3rd session starts tomarrow. I will be in a cabin this session, Tuskie, working with 14 ten-twelve year olds. They look naughty on paper, so we will see how the next ten days go. We have a holiday every session at camp, and this session is Christmas and it is the most fun! I love it and the kids love it so it is a great time. I am nervous about working in "boys field", which are the normal boys. They can be really difficult, but the supervisor of the boys wanted me in one of his cabins, and everyone here seems to have faith in me!
Sooooo..... I am living with five roomates. Found them last night scurring around my electric fuse box in my room. MICE! YIKES!!! they are cute and i think we scared them off and took their home away, but time will tell. If I see one again, I will have to find somewhere else to live this session!

ON to my weekend. SOOO the guy i went out with a few times in CO was in town, here in NY, this weekend for a wedding. So once he was done with his friends wedding things, he came to camp for a 1.5days and hung out with me. I had a great time!!!!! we just hung out the first night, went to dinner, got a drink and watched the sun set on Lake Erie. Then yesterday, we went to the Falls and just hung out. It was a really great time. He knows i like him and am crushin ....it works and we seem to have a good time together....who knows what that means right now, but i am having fun an think he is really great

so a little laundry to finish and then to bed! more later!

so very exciting news. I have the most terrible and itchy heat rash that anyone in the history of EVER has ever had!!!! I think that i might possibly die. Ok....maybe not tonight, but if it gets any worse i will for sure scratch my self to death.
On to more exciting things. I am having a wonderful time at camp...like always. I have also completly lost my voice (like always) too. Tomarrow is my half day off.....my day off is split this time due to potential plans this weekend. I am just gonna chill and try to get some rest. that is about all for now...more later!

so the 4th was pretty regular. Party at beths house, spent the night...sat in her great hot tub, but went to bed about 2 and headed back to camp around 10am. We were near a town called brockport and this friend is coming to NY next week for a wedding but staying an extra day and will be hanging out with me and I am a little worried that he is headed to brockport and not brocton, as port is about 2hours, and the other is 20min. So back at camp and got my bike ready to ride! Also found out about 5 of my top 10 favorite campers are coming out this session and I get to feed a kid Brian. Mainly i get to sit next to him while he scarfs his food and then chase him around the dining hall and the camp grounds the rest of meal time. ! it is a good workout and i adore him!! THIs should also make for some very interesting and funny stories>

Happy 4th all! I hope everyone is having a great day! I heard it is really nice in colorado, so hope the picnics are extra yummy! I am getting ready to head to Rochester, we are skipping the Falls since we are apparently having a monsoon today! It is rainy and dreary, but i love days like this out here!

So tons of new things. I am at CAMP!!! I heart camp! This place makes me happier than I have ever been and it is a place like this that everyone needs in their lives. I arrived yesterday at 11pm, after a long drive...more about that in a minute, and when i got here some people ran to greet me and everyone was super excited that i was here. I did not realize how much these crazy fools love me.....the feelings are mutual. Even BW....my old arch nemesis...was really nice. So I will be in the pool this session and am living in the Kelley house, not a cabin. This is where I like to be the most, we get to know all the kids at camp and get to spoil them without having to dicipline them. It is great. So everyone is gone right now....the kids went home today and new ones arrive on Friday. I am going to Niagra Falls tomarrow with friends and will be having a sleep over at a friends house. It is all like being 10years old....which was a while ago and very fun!
So the drive was better than i anticipated. I left omaha at 6:30am and drove 16 hours to get here. I actually enjoyed the drive and saw many states. I discovered somethings about myself. I am totally annoyed by fools who do not use their cruise control and pass you and then you pass them.....AAAHHHHHH!!!! SHaking my fist!!! Then I noticied that i must eat sunflowers one at a time or your mouth gets really really sore in those 16hours. I think i like cleveland, oh and will try to spend a day there on the way back to NE....

About that.....no real ideas yet but this kinda goes back to the fate thing. So the whole fate thing is that when I decided that i was coming to camp, I called and totally caught the camp director in her office on a sat during her only 10minutes that she was there that day....then I randomly stopped to talk to someone about a lifeguarding class and this guy was there and got that scheduled.....and he is not usually working on saturadys. .....ps...the guy who i went out with....

.and just meeting some nice people and it has really made me realize that I am GREAT! and totally dodged a HUGE bullet this fall. I had some touble seeing that but am now breathing a big sigh of relief.

So after camp i was going to do some travel nursing....but am not so sure. this hospital in denver that i really really like suddenly has some openings (fate?) that have not been there for months. ANy of the 3 jobs i could get there would allow me to also do all the the skills i have(post partum, Labor and delivery and Level III NICU) and i would be furthering my education adn knowledge. I like the idea of that. Traveling would be great, but i do have friends in denver and feel good there and am not sure that uprooting myself yet again is the best thing? Who knows right now. I also would be close to home and have realized how amazing my crazy family is! And i would have a roomie with my friend Samantha! Shout out to sam and Jamie for their amazing ability to make me laugh and to be amazing all the time. ANyway,,.....i am going to head outside and watch the great sunset on lake erie! my heart is Very very happy!
talk to ya later!