{"id":27463,"date":"2012-11-27T00:08:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T08:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=27463"},"modified":"2012-11-27T00:08:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T08:08:45","slug":"greatest-generation-mba-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/27463","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our Sisterhood Merit Badge program<\/span><\/a>, now with 4,649 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20145,730 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ<\/span><\/p>\n

Wondering who I am? I\u2019m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my former life<\/span><\/a> \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Earning this badge was one I was looking forward to, and one I could have earned dozens of times over when I was just a little sprout: spending time with the senior citizens in my life. See, as a youngster, whenever I went through a phase (cheerleading, clarinet, ballet, choir, underwater basket weaving), I would take my new skills to the local retirement home for polishing. I found there to be a good mix of love and support, and tell-it-like-it-is truthfulness, disguised in blue-haired ladies and no-haired gentlemen. It was nice for them, and valuable for me. I made lots of friends of the grandparent variety, and they got a little something to look forward to after school on Fridays. At least I think they looked forward to it …<\/p>\n

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Lately, I\u2019ve been bad about going back, maybe because I wasn\u2019t sure I had any skills to offer. But I could still play Backgammon and Scrabble with the best of them, and I had a new shade of nail polish I\u2019d been itching to try out (I just knew some of the ladies would be happy to oblige).\u00a0And if I could earn a new Merit Badge while doing so, well, that was icing on the cake!<\/p>\n

Turns out, I\u2019m a little old for performing and my back handsprings were totally off, but luckily they seemed just as charmed by my company. Who knew? I didn\u2019t have to perform anything after all, and as I sat\u2014icing my twisted ankle from a cartwheel gone awry\u2014I got to share some sweet tea with a table full of lovely grandmothers and grandfathers. I thought they might want to reminisce with me about the good old days or something, but they were deep into a game of Hearts and asked if I might like to join.<\/p>\n

Being a good sport, I naturally said yes.<\/p>\n

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Now I know what the Greatest Generation is best at: hustling! I was down $24 in less than an hour. No one wanted their toenails painted, and even my clarinet solo was not distracting them. I had to move rooms. I hobbled out as they cheerily waved my grocery money at me.<\/p>\n

Whew.<\/p>\n

The next room was the dining area, and I shared a very bad cup of coffee with a Mr. Brown. He, too, was not enthralled with my new polish colors, but he was nice enough to let me style his mustache. Also, he shared his lime Jello, so I pretty much think we are besties now. I scraped the Cool Whip aside and whispered that I would bring him some homemade whipped cream later in the week.<\/p>\n

Before I left, I finally got to polish some nails (Passion Fruit Pink totally brings out the blue in that hair!) and revive my little-used chorus of Kumbaya. It was moving and heartfelt and I made note to see if I could rejoin the local high school choir. Maybe as an alternate or something? Or play background on the clarinet? No?<\/p>\n

Anyway, my afternoon was priceless. Actually, it was $24 \u2026 but you get the drift!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The adorable, always humorous MBA Jane is my way of honoring our Sisterhood Merit Badge program, now with 4,649 dues-paying members who have earned an amazing number of merit badges so far\u20145,730 total! Take it away, MBA Jane!!! MJ Wondering … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[363,548,566,574,638],"class_list":["post-27463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gladsome_sisters","tag-gladsome-sisters","tag-maryjanesfarm-farmgirl-sisterhood","tag-mba-jane","tag-merit-badge-awardees","tag-new-sisters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}