One Final (at least for this month) Post on Chocolate

So have you been wondering how I did with my (mostly) chocolate-free Lent?  Oh, yes, I'm "sure" you've been losing sleep waiting to hear the results.  Someone told me you can cheat on Sundays so I "might" have had a brownie one Sunday during Lent (but only one Sunday).  Other than that, I was successful.  You are fully aware that I cheated twice--St. Patrick's Day party food and wedding food tasting.  Otherwise, I was a good girl and mind you it was pretty darn hard on the last day.  The Saturday night before Easter, my fiancé and I went out.  He ordered dessert, which was a brownie sundae, which he could not finish.  He offered me some and given that Lent was ending in FOUR hours I was tempted.  I even tried to rationalize that in several time zones it was no longer Lent, but alas I was a good girl--close call, but I didn't eat the brownie.  I was so excited to eat chocolate on Easter (yes, I have problems, I know) that I had a slice of cookie cake and a brownie and sadly, they weren't that good.  (The brownie was a cute Easter brownie, thank you Pinterest).  I thought perhaps I'd made the recipe wrong--my fiancé would tell me if the brownies did not taste good--don 't get me wrong, he's a wonderful person, but he likes his brownies, if something were wrong, I'd know.  But he (and everyone else) enjoyed them just fine thank you.  Well, after six weeks of (mostly) no chocolate, chocolate just didn't taste as great to me as it used to.  In fact the sweet I enjoyed the most was the Monkey bread I put out with the appetizers--let's just say I didn't log my calories that day (yeah, I had a piece of Mom's non-chocolate bunny cake too--it's shaped like a bunny, don't go thinking I started eating bunnies and that was yummy as always).  Between Easter and the cake tasting the following day, I do believe I need to give up chocolate again to recover from those two days.   

Let's Talk About Cake

Hello Bloggers!  I'm back!  Yay!  Over the past couple of weeks when I've been slacking on my blog I thought of several things I wanted to blog about, but do you think now when I finally have time to blog that I can remember a single one of them? NO!  So we're just going to talk about cake today.  My fiancé and I did our cake tastings (yes, plural, the reception site sent us to two places).  Let's just say it's a good thing I scheduled these for AFTER Lent was over (you know since I wasn't eating chocolate).  Let's just say cake tasting is a bad idea if you're still trying to lose 10 more pounds before your wedding.  I've seen all the TV shows so I know you can do cool things with cakes.  I've been to enough weddings to know wedding cakes look beautiful.  I did not know how many decisions a person had to make when selecting a cake.  There are so many designs, flavors, fillings, frostings, etc.  It was deliciously overwhelming.  Lemon, strawberry, peanut butter, chocolate, cream cheese, raspberry, Bailey's, Amaretto, cherry, buttercream,--and those are just the fillings that I can remember!  Don't even get me started on flavors, frostings, mixing and matching, etc.  I mean there were a few flavors I knew I wouldn't like--I don't really like lemon, but flavors I thought I wouldn't like turned out to be quite tasty.  Let's just say I'm glad I blocked out a good chunk of time at the gym on each of the two cake tasting days. 

Hello Again and Good-bye Chocolate

I'm kind of looking forward to eating chocolate again.  I fully intend to eat some chocolate on Easter and the week after (we have our cake tasting that week and I have friends coming over for dinner on that Friday night who have all ready requested a chocolate dessert).  But after that, I'm going to try to go chocolate free again--well, semi-chocolate free--until the wedding.  I'm finally shedding a couple of pounds so if it takes limited chocolate to do it then bye bye chocolate.  That being said, I plan to eat dessert at my bachelorette party--um, the bakery with the second best cupcakes in the state are in the city where it's being held so clearly I need to have one, though truth be told, I may not have a chocolate one.  And our annual work party in June always comes with delicious chocolate treats so I'll make an exception for that.  I'm sure there'll be other festivities here and there between now and the wedding so while I won't be as good as I was for Lent, I plan to keep trying to eat healthier.  11 pounds to go!     

Excuses for Why I'm Lacking on the Blog Posts

So work is going to be BUSY for the next couple of weeks so I'm warning you now, I'll be slacking on the blog.  But hopefully, when I'm back I'll have wedding updates, more semi-funny stories (I have a few in mind), and knowing me a post or two about food.  Until then, try not to miss me too much.  And if I'm not back before then, keep an eye out for new posts at the end of the month.  Have a good one all! 

Quote 'Em On It

Funny quotes from the past couple of weeks:

It's my sister's birthday today.
Oh, nice, how old is she?
Um, she's either 13 or 100, I forget.


Well, when we show up to go over our results, I'm afraid they might not let us get married.
Why?
M accidentally checked off the box that says "Unsure" to the question"your partner has a problem with drugs."
WHAT?
He thought it said does not apply instead of unsure. (um, yeah, there may be a future blog post about this one). 


What's that thing on your chin?
A zit (she says as she turns bright red).
A zit?  Oh, well, are you going to do anything about that?
Um, maybe wear make up to work more than 11 days a year.  Hopefully, it'll go away in a few days.
I think my brother had a zit in his ear once.  He had it cut out.  Maybe you can just cut it off your chin.


What did you draw?
You.
Me?
Yes, it said to draw something heavy so I drew you.