Day 7 - Am I cheating?

Is it cheating if you help out a friend and have it count as a volunteer activity? Well, I asked the question and since I don't hear any yes' in the room, I'm going to say it's not cheating :-). On Saturday, my TCM (official for Troop Cookie Manager) and I drove to the cookie warehouse to pick up our Girl Scout Cookies. It was quite an adventure getting there, but that's between me and our TCM.

When we got there, I must have gained 10 pounds from looking at those cookie boxes. Seriously, I think the body does that..it sees food and remembers the last time you ate it. It puts on the pounds automatically, just like that, because it doesn't want to go through the whole process all over again. Open the box, eat the cookies, put the box away. Wait until the kids go to bed, eat more cookies, hide the box. Wait until hubby goes to work, eat more cookies, swear that some of the cookies fell on the floor and you had to throw them away because they were gross. Wait until hubby works out, eat more cookies, you're already in trouble for eating so many cookies, so why not. Wait until kids are off to school, eat more cookies, buy more cookies so it feels like YOU NEVER ATE AN ENTIRE BOX. Time for dessert, eat more cookies from the new box. Okay, so this has nothing to do with volunteering. I get sidetracked every now and then, thank goodness for the delete button.

So..when we got there, we were told that the little tiny pile, the tiniest pile in all of cookie land was ours. I almost hi-fived my TCM, until I realized what they were trying to tell us...we under-ordered. We proceeded with placing the cookie boxes in the mini-van (which took about 2 minutes and 30 seconds) and we were off to sort the cookies back home for our girl scouts.

We had a lot of fun that day and I realized that everyone needs help. Whether it's a big task or small, things always go much faster and tasks are always more fun when there are two people helping out instead of one. If anyone is reading this blog, I encourage you to call a friend and ask them if they need help with any tasks today. And if you need any Girl Scout cookies at all, drop me a line and our troop will sell you some cookies. You must live in the San Diego area.

Until later, make it a great day!
Christina