November 7
2019
Woman Yelling at Cat Cookie Memes
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You may have seen the latest meme craze going around featuring a mash-up of two cast members of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and a confused cat named Smudge. I couldn’t resist making a few memes of my own featuring the ongoing battle of cookie names between ABC and Little Brownie Bakers. I grew up selling LBB but our council uses ABC. So to this day, I have to do a translation in my head when I see a red box because I first think of it as a Tagalong, but I have to use Peanut Butter Patty as the name when we’re selling cookies otherwise nobody knows what I’m referring to. LBB is my first language, I suppose. Continue reading
In 2009 Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana (GSGCNWI) started their 
This will be a quick hitter, but I just wanted to share that I’m creating a YouTube series. I try to present some sort of enrichment after each of our service unit leader meetings, but not everybody can make them. Last year, I sent out a survey to our service unit asking how they wanted to receive UNOFFICIAL trainings, and I was surprised at the number who wanted a webinar format. Well, webinars are hard to schedule, so instead I thought I’d record my presentations instead. I figured recording them live at the meetings wouldn’t be very effective, so maybe I’d try out recording the presentation directly from my laptop the same way I recorded the goofy 
But how do we do this? That was the $64,000 question. Everybody these days is struggling to get volunteers. Many parents want to find troops, but there aren’t very many that want to step up and take the reigns to start a brand new one. I realized that we needed to take a new approach. In the past, it seems like our organization just relied on recruiting girls but crossing our fingers that the leaders and new troops would follow. We needed to be more aggressive. We go all out to show that Girl Scouts gives girls opportunities and an experience that they wouldn’t necessarily have elsewhere. Well, what if we showed women that they’ll also get that in return if they become a leader? Side note: I realize men can be leaders too. In fact, we have a male leader in our service unit! But for this, we specifically targeted women.
You may have noticed I’ve been AWOL lately. It’s been one crazy summer, but not like the John Cusack movie. June started off kinda slow, but then July has gone into overdrive. Here’s what I’m in the middle of right now, and I’ll keep it somewhat short because I’m going in a thousand directions all at once. But I wanted to briefly check in so that you all didn’t think the Girl Scout mafia finally caught up to me.