Special of the Day

National Chocolate Day

To celebrate this special day, I wore all brown, and made a Double Chocolate Silk Pie from scratch! Oh my goodness, it was soooooo rich! Good but rich. I still need to perfect the art of making chocolate scrolls, as it was my very first time to attempt it.

For the Love of Chocolate!

October 28th is National Chocolate Day!!! I didn't even know there was such a day until very recently.

This is a day for us to just let go, indulge, and slake our desire for this heavenly treat! Looking at these images is making me go crazy right now, for I have NO chocolate to eat.

I have been pondering how I want to celebrate this holiday, and really I am having such a difficult time deciding. The choices are endless. Just eating candy bars, like the ones pictured above, sounds delicious. Mmm, or that yummy Bryer's Triple Chocolate ice cream sounds good, too. I am definitely a sucker for assorted chocolates, especially the ones filled with nougat, but those are usually expensive. Maybe I should take the opportunity to make a new chocolate dessert. Oh, I just don't know!!

How are you going to celebrate?

For those who live in New York, how about celebrating with the $1,000 ice cream sundae from Serendipity?

Good grief, I can't even imagine ever buying one of those even if I had the money!!!

Goodness, now I won't feel so guilty when I order PF Chang's $8.00, to die for, chocolate cake!

Chocolate Cravings

Ew, I just read that our chocolate cravings may be linked to a certain kind of bacteria lurking in our intestines. Go here to read more....

Loco for Cocoa

You know you are a chocolate addict when you are resorting to squirting the very last drops of chocolate sundae syrup on organic graham crackers!!!

Sadly this was me this past week. I wasn't able to buy any dessert (or chocolate) at the store last week, and yes, I do know dessert is a luxury, but it would be like coffee addicts not gettin' their coffee, okay!! Not pretty.

This was a week when I really needed the brown stuff. Maybe my fellow females can relate?

I thought I was going to have to shave my head and check myself into rehab, but Mark surprised me with M&M's last night. I am feeling much better. Thank you from the bottom of my heart dear!

Aye, Aye Captain!

This M&M lover has just found out that soon store's shelves are going to be stocked with new Pirate M&Ms!! I just can't wait to try Jack's Gems, Pirate's Gold and Pirate Pearls(m&m's first white chocolate candy)!

Health Nut

I claim to be a health nut, not a health freak. I never want to be labeled a hypocrite in this area so I will admit right off the bat that I have an insatiable sweet tooth! I absolutely LOVE chocolate, most desserts, anything with carbs, a good juicy fast food hamburger every once in a while(although I might have a harder time enjoying this treat after viewing Superkraut's cow photos), Papa John's pineapple pizza, M&Ms( it is nothing for me to eat a huge bag in one day), and well the list goes on and on. Now that I have a clear conscience, I can move forward with what I really wanted to write about.
Alot has changed since I was a little girl, and there is still lots of changing to do. My grocery shopping fantasy is to one day be able to do ALL of my grocery shopping at Wild Oats! (Ecxept when I need that bag of M&M's) I grew up on Hamburger Helper, canned veggies, Little Debbie's, Kool-Aid, antibiotics, and nuked food out the whazoo, but ever since I started seeing a Chiropractor at the age of 14, I have been hooked on anything and everything that has to do with a natural, alternative healthy lifestyle. What is really funny, though, is that I am married to someone who cares as much about this topic as I care about camping. Any reputable matchmaking company would have never put us together based upon our eating habits. Come to think of it, we are pretty much opposites about everything, but since it was The Matchmaker who put us together, I can confidently say we are just right for one another. I would HATE to be married to someone just like me!! (I am kinda hard to live with!)
For over a decade I have spent many hours researching herbology, aromatherapy, homeopathy, healthy eating, etc... and have been trying my best to put all of the knowledge I have acquired into practice. There is still SO much more I want to learn, and half the stuff I have already learned I have forgotten. While I am by no means an expert, I hope to use my blog as an outlet to share some of the things that I have learned. If you have any tips, please share. I'm on the edge of my seat when it comes to health!
My pictures wouldn't load, and I am tired of trying. So I will go ahead and post pictureless=(