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A few days ago my daughter got out the little silver tea set my mother gave her. She lovingly polished every piece with the silver polish. Then she set out tea–or rather, Coke, of course. And she added spoonfuls of sugar to the Coke from the silver sugar dish because clearly there’s just NOT ENOUGH sugar in the Coke already, plus she wanted to use the sugar dish. She found every last Hershey’s Kiss we had in the house and munched them all down as the accompaniment to her Coke-tea, leaving a trail of wrappers in her wake. “Chocolate,” she told me, “is a girl’s best friend.” Now where did she learn that?:rolleyes:
Night before last, I heard BANG BANG BANG in the kitchen a little bit after dinner. Cabinet doors. Banging. One after another. I went in there and said, WHAT are you doing? My daughter said she was looking for junk food. Well, there’s not any. Nothing suitable for late-night snacking or dessert. Haven’t been to the store lately. We’re down to, gasp, healthy food, and she’d eaten the last of the chocolate in her big Coke-tea party. It was all very disappointing. In fact, when I told her, really, we DON’T have any, you can stop looking, she started crying. When you’re nine, a dearth of dessert is a huge blow. Too much to bear. I told her, “You should have eaten more vegetables at dinner if you’re that hungry.” She wailed in agony. She found a brownie mix in the pantry. “I’ll eat this!” I told her, no, it’s too late to bake. “I DON’T CARE IF IT’S BAKED!” (I mean, really, I think she was nearly foaming at the mouth.) No, I told her, you can’t eat the mix straight from the box!! More wailing.
It’s so bad around here that my fourteen-year-old took time out of his busy summer of eating sandwiches, watching TV, and acting like I don’t exist to speak to me: “You need to go to the store.”
My twelve-year-old was more direct: “WHEN are you going to the store?”
Don’t any of these people understand that the Romance Writers of America conference is next week and I’m on a diet???
Yesterday afternoon we did finally bake the triple chocolate hot fudge brownie mix that she had wanted to eat straight from the box. Look at her eyes. Aren’t they scary? Those are the eyes of the CHOCOLATE-DEPRIVED.
Man, those brownies looked so good last night. They smelled even better. I could TASTE THEM IN MY MIND. I resisted. Not one bite. AM I STRONG OR WHAT? And they are still there, staring at me, this morning……. Eeek!!!
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Resist the chocolate. You can do it.
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I’m so impressed you resisted the brownies!!!
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:talktothehand: DON’T GET BETWEEN ME AND MY CHOCOLATE!
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But even if you slip up, don’t worry, you’ll be lifting lots of weights soon with all those awards! Congrats on being a Maggie finalist! I just read your blog about that this morning. Whohooooooooooooooooooooo and congrats!
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Let’s not talk chocolate!! Whoever invented the word ‘resist’. Ugh!:sad:
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I hear you about the no desserts before Reno…and we’ve had TWO of the Pepridge Farm Choc Layer Cake in the house over the last week (my and DD’s birthdays are six days apart)
YIKES!!:hyper:
And yes, I caved…I ate the #@*&%)#* cake!
See You Soon!
Christyne :bananadance:
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Okay. Now i’m hungy!
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1. If you have melted chocolate on your hands, you’re not eating fast enough.
2. Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all qualify as fruit. Eat as many as you want.
3. Eat a chocolate bar before each meal, and it will take the edge off your appetite.
4. If you can’t figure out how to get chocolates into the house without the kids noticing, eat them in the parking lot.
5. Put “Eat chocolate” at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you’ll get one thing done.
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I can usually resist the first piece of chocolate but not the second, third, fourth, etc. Once I give in, it’s all over until the chocolate is gone.:no: My grandfather used to say, “You can’t stand on two legs, have another.” Must be sailors’ talk–for when you’ve drunk too much. :rolleyes:
That’s a really nice tea-set. Is it an antique? I can see why your daughter would want to do the works.
Hang tough for that diet. You can do it.
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Keep it up. And have fun at Reno!!
Grins*
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I envy your ability to bake brownies. It’s been in the upper 90′s/100′s this week, and there is no way I’m getting the oven going. And I’m really craving brownies too… there’s this cheesecake swirl brownie mix that calls my name every time I open the cupboard.
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Oh, in case anyone wants to know, that is one of her brothers’ dirty socks she is using to polish the tea set, LOL!
(Marcy, I like your chocolate rules!!)
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And love the sugar in the Coke LOL and the eyes.
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Anye chance she’s that much closer to ushering in the days of womanhood? B/c she sure seems to have mastered the hormonal woman routine. Ask scary as that moment is for every mother.