My world of blog reading started with primarily knitting blogs. For many years, my bloglines account was populated with only knitting blogs. As I became more and more enmeshed in academia, I began adding academic bloggers to my list. Those can be somewhat disheartening and the knitting bloggers have been quieter and quieter, so I started adding funny blogs (such as FailBlog, Cute Overload, etc.). Most recent additions to the bloglines have been food blogs. Mostly, I come across a random post and find that the individual makes or reports on yummy foods or talks about different gadgets, and then I add them to my list.

On food blog that's been on the list for a while is Baking Bites. I'd actually used her site a long time before I realized the bloggie part because she has recipes for home made girl scout cookies. I've made both the thin mints and the samoas. When I tried the thin mints, they were good, but I didn't use the exact right mint flavor. The samoas were to die for, but a bit of a pain to assemble.

Now I love me some girl scout cookies. And if I run across some girl scouts, I happily buy as many thin mints and samoas as I can afford. The problem is... I can't ever find any girl scouts. I stalked the girl scouts website for when cookie season started. They appear to have a helpful site for locating cookie sales... the problem is that helpful site is a useless waste of hope and time. You enter your zip code and it tells you who the local chapter is and you send them message with the promise that they'll respond with where their girls will be selling. Tried, tried it 50 times, tried it was every zip code within a 1 hour driving radius. No response, no girl scouts, no cookies. Needless to say, I was sad. Last time I had samoas from the girl scouts was 3 years ago in Boston and probably 2 years ago when I made them myself. I'm lazy, I don't want to have to always make my own.

Then bloglines alerted me to the most wonderful post Baking Bites has ever run. Those crafty little Keebler elves (who apparently also make the girl scouts cookies) have released their own version of samoas which Baking Bites claims to be identical to the scouts'. "Hurrah!!!" I exclaimed and I grabbed my car keys and drove up the street to the grocery store.

But alas, the grocery store (while having a nice sale on Keebler products) did not have my coconut dreams. But I wasn't too crushed because it is a really crappy grocery store. I told Kevin about the cookies and he hurrahed with me. And then I spent the better part of an hour searching on the internet for a store that might sell them. Keebler has a helpful find this product feature. Not sold anywhere within 30 miles of my zip code. I tried our old NJ zip code. I tried my parents' zip code; I tried Kevin's parents' zip code. I couldn't find them on the websites for the big grocery stores in the area. I did find them on Wegman's website, but not for sale. Keebler offered several online sellers of their products and yet none had the coconut dreams.

My hopes crushed I tried one more google search. That google search found one online grocer that was selling them. I was a little worried about the randomness of ordering from a site that I'd never heard of and that warned against purchasing chocolate things in the summer. But once my desire for these cookies was aroused, I could not stop! So I ordered several boxes. My order is pending. I have a fear that I'll receive an email that my order is cancelled because the cookies are out of stock, or don't exist really, or were eaten up by the person processing my order.

So I'll keep you all posted. If all else fails, I may suck it up and make them myself, but only after I've thoroughly exhausted all of the other lazy methods!