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By: Full Speed Ahead « A Patchwork Life

Full Speed Ahead « A Patchwork Life — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:53:46 +0000

[...] strep throat again like last year (knock on wood) and not feeling quite as overwhelmed as I did at this point last year. The girls’ costumes are all set and ready to go (Lucy changed her mind and will be Dorothy [...]

By: 2009: A Recap « A Patchwork Life: writing, teaching, learning more each day

2009: A Recap « A Patchwork Life: writing, teaching, learning more each day — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:31:34 +0000

[...] October, I fell back in love with Pearl Jam and autumn. I taught The Killers and was productive and overwhelmed yet [...]

By: jackie

jackie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:45:35 +0000

You know what’s funny? Once I posted about it on Facebook, I realized how many people I knew had been ordering their groceries online, and then I felt like a chump for waiting so long!

By: Trix

Trix — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:43:15 +0000

Miss Thing, don’t you feel bad about ordering groceries online! When I lived in NYC, I ordered from Fresh Direct all the time, and it was quite addictive and fun in a dorky way! I think it can help you stay on mission and just get what you planned to get rather than tossing impulse buys into the cart. Plus, when it arrives it’s like getting presents, only the presents are food. Anyway it kind of sounds like you have enough to do … I’m just sayin’

By: jackie

jackie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:44:59 +0000

The costumes came together perfectly! The Crookshanks are actually pretty cute, but it opened the door to a whole word of HP plush the girls are now lusting after, including Hedwig and the Monster Book of Monsters! We saw many other HP characters, including their best buddy Sam who went as Harry, complete with black wig and Quidditch robes, and a little Ron Weasley who dyed his blond hair red!

This is our very first involvement with Scouting since my own lone year as a Brownie way back in the late 1980s, so I have no idea. I have to say that I’d prefer February March to the insanity of trying to coordinate the cookie sale through Sept/Oct and all the ensuing back-to-school craziness.

By: Jody

Jody — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:33:39 +0000

Did the costumes come together? (I’ve only EVER had problems with Amazon delivery twice, and both times, it was when I had a rare deadline.) Elba was Hermione last year (but I didn’t get Crookshanks: well done!), while Gemma was Ron and Wilder was Harry. This year, Wilder was a clone trooper while Elba was herself, but as a Hufflepuff keeper (we spent a ridiculous amount of time figuring out that, in the movies anyway, Keepers get #1) while Gemma was Fred Weasley in his Beater’s robes (and she decided that he would be #2, and George would be #3, due to alphabetization, although that’s got to be movies-only, because if the book robes had numbers, Lee Jordan would be able to tell them apart).

I finished the robes, but not the faux-leather gauntlets and shin guards. Sewing and faux leather: SUCK.

I’ve only ever heard of girl scout cookies in February/March — has that changed recently? Regional variations? Do tell.

By: jackie

jackie — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:18:28 +0000

I’m the blogger, I get final say .

By: spike

spike — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:52:23 +0000

so not preemptive! ;p