31 Days of Song {29/31} – Baby
29th October 2011 | 31 days of song, camp arnold. | 0 comments
Some of you probably thought you’d successfully manage 31 days without me talking about Justin Bieber.
Suckaaassss!!!!
It is no secret I love Justin Bieber..
Let me tell you what “Baby” reminds me of.
The song “Baby” by Justin Bieber reminds me of:
- doing the dishes at camp with Emily and Tayla
- “We’re going to sing grace to the tune of Justin Bieber’s hit song ‘Baby’….”
- late night drives back to camp with the windows down with some of my favorite girls in the world.
- that moment when Andrew Smith sang the “yo” and “uh huh” part once.
- when Jordan auditioned for the worship team and I said “play A, F#m, D and E…” and I started playing the piano with him, and then I started singing… I had totally tricked him into playing Baby for his worship team audition.
- the one week last summer when I was a counselor and we started to re-write the words… “we know He loves us, we know He cares. always forever He will be there…”
- that one week this summer when the girls of Grand 1 finished writing what we’d started the previous summer, and sang it for me outside of the dining hall once.
- Ila’s cabin surprising me with the “Bieber song,” a parody of the “Beaver song.”
- This.
- Driving 5 miles an hour around Camp Arnold, windows down, song blaring, and making everyone listen.
- Doing the morning wake up call and playing the song over the camp PA system at 7 am.. and one of the boy counselors telling me he’d never seen his campers get out of bed so quickly.
- Last summer they announced we’d be having a “hideous shirt day” and Jordan asked to borrow my Bieber shirt.
…and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
ps. I am currently in a state of really missing summers at Camp Arnold. <3 I blame it on the long-awaited Facebook albums of camp pics by Desiree Silva.
31 Days of Song {3/31} – Baby, One More Time
3rd October 2011 | 31 days of song | 0 comments
Song #3: Baby, One More Time by Britney Spears
Everybody jump in your magical time machine. The year is 1998, and I am in 8th grade. My mom finally caved and got me a sweet pair of Adidas kicks with iridescent blue stripes. My backpack was full of Lip Smackers, my favorite shirt was a pink t-shirt by the brand Self Esteem and it had butterflies on the bottom.
Speaking of butterflies, guess what I sported in my hair? If you guessed butterfly clips you are absolutely right. A crown of butterfly clips, many of them with glitter. Not only did I love Lip Smackers, I had a tube of Bonne Bell glitter gel that smelled like blueberry and I put that all over. My mom bought me a tube of light pink, loose glitter and I frequently dusted it all over my face.
Also cool were those tattoo chokers, you know the ones… that were stretchy and made you look like you had a tattoo around your neck. Mine, naturally was rainbow colored.
That’s 13 year old Stephanie Orefice. Unfortunately I have no pictures to show you from this time. Or luckily, depends on how you look at it.
13 year old Stephanie Orefice is the one who listened to “Baby, One More Time” on repeat and maybe even choreographed a dance to it in her room. The joys of only childhood. 
