Monday, August 15, 2005
THE LAWS OF CHOCOLATE:
1: If you’ve got melted chocolate all over your hands, you’re eating it too slowly.
2: Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices, & strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
3: The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
4: Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal.
It’ll take the edge off your appetite and you’ll eat less.
5: A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Isn’t that handy?
6: If you can’t eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can’t eat all your chocolate, what’s wrong with you?
7: If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves.
8: If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don’t they actually counteract each other?
9: Money talks. Chocolate sings.
10: Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger.
11: Q. Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous?
A. Because no one wants to quit.
12: If not for chocolate, there would be no needfor control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated.
13: Put “eat chocolate” at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you’ll get one things done.
14: And my favorite: Before consuming any chocolate, first break it into pieces. The process of breaking allows the calories to leak out!
Thoughts for the Day
“I’m am NOT totally useless; I could be used as a Bad Example!”
“Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t gone to sleep yet!”
Can’t remember who to thank but thank you for sharing anyway!!!!
Exercise
WARNING This is a laugh out loud from friend Pam so do not drink anything while reading!!!!
- I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out
what I’m doing.
- I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
- I have flabby thighs, but fortunately my stomach covers them.
- The advantage of exercising every day is that you die healthier.
- If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.
- Walking can add minutes to your life. This enables you at 85 years old
to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $5000 per month.
- My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. Now
she’s 97 years old and we don’t know where on earth she is.
- The only reason I would take up exercising is so that I could hear
heavy breathing again.
- I joined a health club last year, spent about 400 bucks. Haven’t lost
a pound. Apparently you have to go there.
- And last but not least: I don’t exercise because it makes the ice jump
right out of my glass.
A Happy Visit!
Saturday afternoon brought a very welcome visit from some old friends of ours. Pam, Earl and two of their sons came up to visit and have dinner with us. We do not get together often so it was a real treat. Eric, their youngest, and Dakota played video games before dinner.
After dinner Ben joined them for a romp outside on the wood chip pile.
Pam and I met at work in 1969. She saw me through the birth of my daughter Cindy, the death of my first husband, and was in my wedding to Jay in 1974. We were at her wedding to Earl also. Earl and Jay worked at the phone company as did Pam and I.
So while Jay and Earl caught up on old times, discussed gardening, and whatever else guys talk about, Pam and I talked about what old married women talk about. We reminisced the good times, the not so good times, how our kids have turned out so far, her home schooling of her sons, and how much we missed laughing together.
Of course I forgot the camera until they were ready to leave so I had to take pictures at the car! What I really wanted to do was wrap my arms around them and never let them leave. But but we are at different stages of our lives so I’m content to see them once in a while!
Dakota Was Jammin’ This Time!
On Sunday morning it was into the truck and off to Tomkin’s for a bushel of peaches. Hmm! I can taste those cinnamon peaches already! Located north of Vassar Michigan it wasn’t too hard on Dakota and Jasmine who had to ride in the truck’s little back seat.
On the way home we stopped north of Millington, MI at Pennel’s Farm Market and bought 12 pints of raspberries and three pints of Green Gage plums. Grandpa and Dakota made the first batch of raspberry jam just before Wes and Deb were ready to take him and Jazz home.
Learning to cook jam with Grandpa can be hot work on a summer day but Dakota was stirring hard and asking lots of questions about how to do it!
But stirring isn’t all you have to do to make great jam. As Grandpa poured the jam into the jars Dakota had to wipe the rims, put on the lids, then place the rings on, and turn them over for five minutes.
I took over helping when the grandkids went home and the results of the project were 18 1/2 half pints of raspberry, five half pints of no sugar added raspberry, and five half pints of no sugar added plum. ( So Grandpa can eat it too!) Not a too shabby days work and tomorrow it is peaches!!!