This year I am boycotting GS cookie sales. There are many things wrong with the GS sale process, the primary one being that parents have become cookie pushers in their workplaces. There are other things as well, perhaps it is the natural evolution of cookie marketing. But, there are fewer cookies per box (yes, box size got a lot smaller) and the price has gone up. Now, granted that dairy prices have fluctated a bit over the last few years, having risen due to mad cow disease scares. Distribution costs are still low. GS has an army of girls, and now their parents, siblings, relatives, etc., peddling these cookies to anyone who breathes. They're outside supermarkets, movie theaters, in your workplace, and even peddled by retail merchants. It's amazing how much money is dumped into this "goodwill" scheme. If anything has come of this, it's that girls have learned how to delegate up, which is a very good skill if you can master it before you reach corporate America.
Thanksgiving, 2004
This holiday season, while I had planned on cooking Thanksgiving dinner. I had gotten as far as planning the menu (roast duck, butternut squash soup, pumpkin pie, and persimmon pudding). Well, that's as far as I got. But, my plans were foiled by both my parents who cooked roast duck on Wednesday and relatives who concocted a Turkey feast on Thursday. The food this year was very good; and I did manage to make a nice apple tart with a cabernet sauvignon glaze. Mmmm. Next time, I have got to peel the apples and use less brown sugar.
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