Cookies YIKES!!! & gripe

Utoh! I think we might be in cookie trouble this year. I need to beg DH to take the order sheet to work...cuz we sure need his help.

I guess my biggest problem is that we have this one customer who normally orders a lot of cookies and this year was no exception but it seems each year her order goes down. The first year she ordered 90 boxes! Then her order went down to like 70 boxes...well this year she has only ordered 28. Am I disappointed? You betcha!

Darly has a goal of selling 250 boxes this year and so far all we have are 88. And even Sunday I was already hearing "I'm sorry but I've already ordered from...." I've noticed a lot more scouts out this year...where did all these kids come from???

I know that we are normally good for another 30 or so boxes when we deliver. But at this rate we are going to need to do ALOT of cookie booths (oh MAN I HATE cookie booths!)

Two of my faithful blogging friends have offered to buy some, but unfortunately I have no way of getting the cookies to them as Alabama & Wisconsin are not in my neighborhood. SIGH

Oh and a friend of mine at Church, a former GS leader says that she's heard that one of the troops has set a 500 box per girl goal! WHAT?!?!?! Well good luck to them, but I don't think it's possible.

Another topic:

While my Mom was here she complained a lot about how warm DH & I keep our house. Mostly she was upset because she had brought all these sweaters to wear out here that she cannot wear in FL (don't know why she bought them in FL, but that's another story!) and she couldn't wear them while she was at our house because we keep it too warm. She even went so far as to remark about how she could wear these clothes at my brother's house since he keeps it cooler.

The reason DH & I keep our house so warm is that we are COLD here. Even with my house "so warm!" I am wearing sweaters, slippers over my socked feet and sometimes dragging a throw blanket over myself too. So my mother surmised that perhaps I am so cold because I am not getting enough Iron, I must be anemic. Back when I was in 9th grade we did a blood test in biology class and my blood did come up as being borderline anemic. She has always nagged me for not taking multi-vitamins & supplements. I told her I don't like taking supplements because the block me up (you know what I mean) and I eat a healthy diet that has all these vitamins & minerals in them already. So to humor her I went and bought some spinach...that's got lots of iron...right?

So I make the spinach for dinner...YUMMY creamed spinach recipe. DH & I eat spinach, try to get Darly to try it with major failure but oh well. So I'm eating creamed spinach for like 4 days straight. And right away I notice some results...oh not the feeling warmer results. Nope! I'm all blocked up. Great!

I could be way off base, but I figure that when your body needs a certain vitamin or mineral that it doesn't just get rid of it...it absorbs it from the food you eat. Right? So when your body does not need a certain vitamin or mineral it gets rid of it. And no I'm not analizing anything here, but excess iron makes itself evident. I figure that since it blocked me up, I must not need extra iron.

And since I was still cold I figure that it wasn't anemia that was making me cold. I think that I just run cold. I always have. In fact when I lived with my mother I got stuck in the coldest room of the house so I would have a space heater in my room and a ton of blankets on my bed to help keep me warm. So I don't see why now I should be any different.

So glad that Mom has gone home now.