Filed under: The Blonde | Tags: Girl Scout cookies, Lemon Chalet Cremes, Thin Mints, Trefoils
Imagine my glee when I opened up a package from my coworker, IT Girl, today filled with my highly anticipated Girl Scout Cookie order courtesy of her daughter, Little IT.
Girl Scout Cookie season is perfectly timed each year to coincide with my annual pledge to eat healthy and exercise every day. It doesn’t attack in January when you still have the willpower and determination to stick to any New Year’s resolutions you may have made. Instead, it pops up three to four months in when your three-pound a week weight loss goal has been edged out by the “please just let me not have gained anything this week even though I ate half of a large pizza all by myself” mode.
In all fairness, IT Girl does offer us the opportunity to support the Girl Scouts by purchasing cookies that are sent overseas to the troops as part of Operation Thin Mint, a great idea for sure. But, like Christmas, it does only come once a year. And, thus, I vow to be strong. I will order a few boxes of Girl Scout cookies, and I’ll freeze them, and they’ll last for several months. I’ll have my cookies and eat them, too!
And, apparently all at one time…since I managed to mow my way through an entire sleeve of cookies within an hour of opening the box.
Thin Mints my ass.
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If it helps at all, after Monkeyboy’s birthday party Princess said to me, “Wow, she’s lost a lot of weight!” (She was talking about you.) I seem to just be gaining a pound every time Bucket loses a pound. I figure we’ll meet in the middle.
Comment by Crazykidlady April 16, 2008 @ 2:42 pmWish I lived closer so I could help you eat them! My mouth started watering just at the sight of the boxes!
Comment by Jill April 16, 2008 @ 5:28 pmYou know the Duncan’s have always been weak against the Girl Scout Cookie Power, as well as the Villa Pizza Power, and the Dairy Queen Power!
Comment by traci April 17, 2008 @ 5:29 pmYou are so right (and so funny). I was so strong when they were taking orders. I said to myself, I will order just one box since I have no willpower I will give them to my daughter and she can take them home to her large family for a treat. Did I give them to her? Heck no, I couldn’t make myself take them from the sack and hand them to her! I tried, really I did, but my palms started to sweat as I clutched the box and I just couldn’t do it! So I rationalized that I would “ration” them to last a few weeks, after all, there aren’t that many calories in the little sugar cookies, it would be fine to eat two a couple of times a week…..ok, so the rationing reality was I ate one sleeve one night and the other one the next night. What do they put in those things that makes them so hard to resist? The good news is, they are gone for another year.
Comment by Connie April 17, 2008 @ 7:32 pm