Chocolate Scented Goodness!
There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles. ~Author Unknown
Well, you may not have noticed (especially if you've been peeking in my windows), but Easter is over for another year. Stores all over Australia are selling off the chocolates and stocking their shelves with Mother's Day trinkets.
Which brings me to the purpose of this post. Almost everybody knows of my love for Christmas, and most people are also aware that it extends, in howsoever small a way, to other holiday periods. I love these occasions for the feelings they bring up; but I must admit - there's another part that loves when they're over. I know you're asking which part so let me tell you now - the part that loves to get a good bargain at the shops.
Picture. It's 11am on Easter Monday. I'm off work but I've been awake since half past 8 in order to get to the shops as soon as early as I can (bearing in mind that getting to the shops entails dragging poor Inky out of bed and having him drive me down to the big shopping centre near my mother). Together, Mum and I have hit several shops - KMart, Coles and several smaller stores. I've got bags of stuff already and there's a dozen more shops to visit.
Picture. It's Monday evening and I'm placing my finds all over the bed. If I don't find somewhere better to keep all this chocolate, and of course the soft and fluffies, we'll be sleeping on the floor tonight. Or perhaps just me.
Picture. It's Wednesday night, and I just "took a peek" around my local store before heading home. Just in case. I'm another $100 poorer. But I have yet more chocolate, and that makes it okay.
And because I feel like it, a whole lot of quotes about chocolate and other sugary goodness. Also a few icons 'cause I felt like making them.
Take 'em if you want 'em, but please do credit.
Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. ~Sandra Boynton
I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~Jason Love
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis
Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Attributed to Sandra J. Dykes
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. ~Judith Viorst
Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. ~Lora Brody
I don't drown my sorrows; I suffocate them with chocolate chip cookies. ~Author Unknown
If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly. ~Author Unknown
Fruit only angers my need for chocolate. ~Jason Love
There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate. ~Linda Grayson, "The Pickwick Papers"
Man cannot live on chocolate alone, but woman sure can. ~Author Unknown
If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated. ~Author Unknown
I'd give up chocolate, but I'm no quitter! ~Author Unknown
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. ~Author Unknown
The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate! ~Terry Moore
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! ~Charles Schulz
Me and ice cream. Best friends forever. ~Jessi Lane Adams
Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight. ~Jason Love
Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done. ~Author Unknown
Everyone has a price - mine is chocolate. ~Author Unknown
If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage? ~Marquise de Sévigné
Well, you may not have noticed (especially if you've been peeking in my windows), but Easter is over for another year. Stores all over Australia are selling off the chocolates and stocking their shelves with Mother's Day trinkets.
Which brings me to the purpose of this post. Almost everybody knows of my love for Christmas, and most people are also aware that it extends, in howsoever small a way, to other holiday periods. I love these occasions for the feelings they bring up; but I must admit - there's another part that loves when they're over. I know you're asking which part so let me tell you now - the part that loves to get a good bargain at the shops.
Picture. It's 11am on Easter Monday. I'm off work but I've been awake since half past 8 in order to get to the shops as soon as early as I can (bearing in mind that getting to the shops entails dragging poor Inky out of bed and having him drive me down to the big shopping centre near my mother). Together, Mum and I have hit several shops - KMart, Coles and several smaller stores. I've got bags of stuff already and there's a dozen more shops to visit.
Picture. It's Monday evening and I'm placing my finds all over the bed. If I don't find somewhere better to keep all this chocolate, and of course the soft and fluffies, we'll be sleeping on the floor tonight. Or perhaps just me.
Picture. It's Wednesday night, and I just "took a peek" around my local store before heading home. Just in case. I'm another $100 poorer. But I have yet more chocolate, and that makes it okay.
And because I feel like it, a whole lot of quotes about chocolate and other sugary goodness. Also a few icons 'cause I felt like making them.
Take 'em if you want 'em, but please do credit.
Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. ~Sandra Boynton
I want to have a good body, but not as much as I want dessert. ~Jason Love
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis
Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate! ~Attributed to Sandra J. Dykes
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces. ~Judith Viorst
Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. ~Lora Brody
I don't drown my sorrows; I suffocate them with chocolate chip cookies. ~Author Unknown
If you get melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly. ~Author Unknown
Fruit only angers my need for chocolate. ~Jason Love
There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate. ~Linda Grayson, "The Pickwick Papers"
Man cannot live on chocolate alone, but woman sure can. ~Author Unknown
If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated. ~Author Unknown
I'd give up chocolate, but I'm no quitter! ~Author Unknown
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. ~Author Unknown
The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate! ~Terry Moore
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt! ~Charles Schulz
Me and ice cream. Best friends forever. ~Jessi Lane Adams
Chocolate is an antidepressant, which is especially useful as you start to gain weight. ~Jason Love
Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done. ~Author Unknown
Everyone has a price - mine is chocolate. ~Author Unknown
If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage? ~Marquise de Sévigné