Apparently Saturday is "World Friendship Day," and Miss A's Daisy Scouts troop is supposed to do something that involves pissing me off.
More specifically, I have just been informed that, for freaking Friendship Day, I am supposed to bake a bunch of "German" recipes for the girls to sell at Friendship Day.
Okay, what again? You're having an event with other girl scouts and you're selling stuff to them? I am guessing maybe each troop was assigned a country...? Where is this event being held? When specifically is it? Who is going to be there? This information, combined with a little bit of freaking notice, would help me feel less annoyed.
I have gotten a handful of emails this week containing "German" recipes I'm supposed to make for Saturday.
ARE YOU SHITTING ME, GIRL SCOUTS??
Oh but wait there's more!
Also, the girls are going to sing a song. That's cute. Unfortunately, the song is in German. I had a year of German in high school but I'm finding it's inadequate for this situation.
Even more unfortunately, the person who wrote the pronunciation key for the song is fluent in German. So, yeah. It's pretty much a pronunciation key if you already speak German but just happen to be unfamiliar with those words. Like, the pronunciation key for the word, "Pfefferkuchen" says, "pfefferkoohen." I did enjoy listening to Miss A work on spitting out "pfeffer." "PUH-FEFFER!" "PUHFER!" "PURFER!"
Also? Not knowing the tune makes it challenging to teach my daughter the song. I'm not trying to be a bitch, I'm just saying.
So, they called an EXTRA FREAKING MEETING tonight so the girls can practice. That is so what I need. It is.
Seriously, I know zip about this event except that they are singing a song, it is Saturday, and I'm supposed to bake a crapload of "German" shit to sell. I don't know where, what time, whether I'm supposed to go, how long it is, the tune of the dumb song, or anything else.
Disclaimer: The women running the troop work full time and are doing the best they can and I know that. Shut up.
Second disclaimer: I did just find an email that mentions the time and location of the event. And I sent off another email asking who they're selling cookies to. Did not ask the real question, which is DIDN'T WE JUST FREAKING SELL COOKIES??? GIRL SCOUT COOKIES?? SO WHAT ARE WE DOING AGAIN?
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Oh Jen. I could never ever survive the Daisy Scouts, if that's what its like. No, never. A horror. So sorry.
ReplyDeleteSend an email back offering up some lovely Duncan Hines German chocolate cupcakes. Bake them and be done. Let them know that if you had more notice, you would have been able to do more.
ReplyDeleteIf you want help with the song, send it to me and I'll send you a phonetic copy back.
my advice (since i am getting really good at giving you advice and i feel pretty confident that your kid is no longer racist since you've started getting high with him) is this:
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I am so not signing my girls up for that shit.
ReplyDeleteThat's it - Penny and Spyder are not going to be girl scouts. My kids will be decidedly UN-well-rounded.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should briber her to drop out of Daisy Scouts. "Mommy will buy you a cookie for every week you don't go!" Heh, it's probably best for everyone that I'm not a parent.
ReplyDeleteI hate the girl scout organization. Good luck with your German event.
ReplyDeleteJust think, without BS like this, your adoring readers wouldn't get posts like this! Loved it. Bad ju-ju for you, good ju-ju for us.
ReplyDeleteAww man. Your Daisy troop might suck. Stella's is not so bad. Little annoying, but not nearly as Ms. A's seems to be. We get lots of notice about everything. Almost to the point of being overkill.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should hold a meeting for the full time working mommy's consoling them that just because they work they do not need to overcompensate with their daughters by creating all the Daisy bs. Maybe you should plan the next troop meeting for them around margaritas. Little girls and their mommy's bonding over a blender and some nachos. Bet their registration numbers would go up.
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