What Would YOU do for a Thin Mint?

Over at her blog, Snarkspot, Jennifer Weiner reveals a funny, albeit mildly disturbing, obsession with the Thin Mint.  I could relate to the intensity of her Girl Scout Cookie desire, but realized I have never much cared for the Thin Mint.  My Girl Scout Cookie of choice has always been the Caramel DeLite. Oh how I do delight in the Caramel DeLite.  But clearly everyone has their personal favorite, so which of the much-adored sugary (but transfat free!) treats would propel you out of the car in rush hour en route to the emergency room?  What’s your Girl Scout Cookie story?

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A Twist of Fate Makes Life Worthwhile.

The ‘video’ for Pop! Goes My Heart is on YouTube.  Now don’t watch it if you intend to see Music and Lyrics.  But if you have already seen it or need extra convincing to go and don’t mind spoiling the first 3 minutes of the movie …well, it made me smile on the second viewing as much as the first.  And I needed some cheering up this morning for reasons you don’t care to hear, but that I may later elaborate nonetheless in a post entitled “Apparently, I should have been a plumber.” 

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Be My Travel Agent.

Later this year my husband and I will be celebrating our ten year wedding anniversary.  For some time we have thought that ten years worth of marital bliss warrants a vacation of ever-so-slightly more lavish proportions than the weekends away we’ve taken in other years. 

Now that we’re in the early planning stages - we can’t decide where to go.  We are having trouble even isolating a few spots.  So I am posing this question to blogreaders everywhere - what’s a romantic destination for a five night trip, sans kids, within the continental United States some time in the fall, most likely late September?  Help.  Please. 

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I Googled It For You.

I think I might start a new category called “I Googled It For You”  full of information you didn’t even know you wanted. 

Having heard the Ice-Missile Mom received 5 years probation instead of jail time, and wanting to provide a relevant link, I searched “Ice mom probation.”  While I did ultimately find the appropriate link I was shocked by the many crimes other moms have committed that earned the same, or similar, penalty.  A sampling:

• A teenage mother received probation when her toddler drowned in a bucket of vomit.  She didn’t notice because she was drunk. 
• Another mother received only probation when her drug use (of ‘ice’) during pregnancy ultimately resulted in the death of her young baby. 
• In Fort Lauderdale a young mother earned even less probation than Ice Missile Mom(only 3 years) when she threw her newborn off a bridge in a backpack. (Apparently, she claimed the baby was stillborn.)
• And, of course, there’s the officer’s daughter who received only two years probation when she failed to report her knowledge of a drug-trafficking operation.

Having no direct knowledge about the circumstances of those cases, I make no arguments either way about the appropriateness of the penalties, but I do think, under the circumstances, Ice-Missile Mama should probably be allowed to get back to parenting, don’t you?

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