Life
You’re born.
You didn’t ask for it, but it happened,
let’s not go into detail how, there it is.
Do what you will with that life (do no harm);
despite what some people will tell you,
you (mostly) choose how to live it.
Chocolate
One, two, one, two, three
Oh yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah, uh!
Oh yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah, uh!
Struggled with faith in food love or food miracles (miracles) uh!
Never wanna put my heart/stomach on the line, uh!
But swimming in your Phenylethylalanine is something spiritual (spiritual) uh!
I’m born again every time your flavonoids spend the night, uh!
‘Cause your Tryptophan takes me to paradise
Yeah your Seratonin takes me to paradise
And it shows, yeah, yeah, yeah
‘Cause you make me feel like,
I’ve been locked out of chocolate heaven
For too long, for too long…
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah, uh!
Oh yeah yeah
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah, uh!
I grant Bruno Mars and his writing team weren’t talking about chocolate, but feel free to go with the original lyrics, my chocolatified version, or add your food/beverage fav, I dunno, just off the top of my head: Wine, Pierogi, coffee, scones, fried chicken, brownies, Butter Tarts, Kevin Bacon (cook at more than 6 degrees), corn dogs, cotton candy, tea,
Pumpkin Spice Girls latte, crumpets, snow cones, rice, cereal, funnel cakes, Sir Alec Guiness beer, martini (shaken not stirred), pizza,
John Candy, B-52, Som tam, Injera, dumplings, smoothies, eggnog, Dosa, Bagels, doughnuts/donuts,
Superman, Black Panther, Captain America, Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Loki, Aquaman, Thor, Star Lord, Deadpool, Spiderman, Black Widow, Iron Man, Batman, Captain Marvel (seriously, you can have Marvel and DC Comics cocktails – please don’t drink and hero), Fudge, Bonbons,
Lauren Graham crackers (crunch super-fast), cake (https://yadadarcyyada.com/2016/09/16/you-had-me-at-cake/),
Butter Chicken, tacos, Poke, Wagyu beef, paella, French toast (with ketchup) kebabs, Champ, Bannock, Corn on the cob, Potjiekos, Basil Rathbone, lobster,
Baklava, Christina Applegate (haven’t watched “Dead To Me” on Netflix? Give yourself a summer treat), Philly cheese steak, Dim Sum, Samosas, Ty Cobb salad, Caesar salad (Veni, vidi, vici), Waldorf salad (or The Big Salad),
Pad Thai, Bologna (m-m-m-my Bologna!), Rosemary Clooney, Bratwurst/Sauerkraut, Chicago Deep Dish, Spanikopita (I should say I love you more often), kale, New York peppermint patties, honey, broccoli,
BBQ, Sean Bean (One Does Not Simply Eat Beans the Musical Fruit because the more you eat…), Tandoori, Masala, Vindaloo anything (would make a shoe taste good), pineapple (you know that’s right),
Fusion (don’t jump to the conclusion these foods suffers from confusion), Piri-Piri chicken, Brandy (you’re a fine girl), chorizo, Darryl Strawberry Shortcake,
Biryani, Peameal/Back bacon, salmon, Sugar Ray Leonard, spaghetti and meatballs, marshmallows, chocolate syrup, candy canes, candy corn, Pop Tarts, maple syrup (spaghetti with maple syrup?),
Nanaimo bars, Tim Tams, Peaches Geldof, steak, eggs, olives, spring rolls, summer rolls, California rolls, egg rolls, buttered rolls (causing rolls?), avocados, chocolate chip cookies,
Beavertails, Oysters Rockefeller, Heather Graham crackers, onion rings (‘Cause if you like it, then you shoulda put an onion ring on it), Bubble and squeak, Moose tacos, Beef Stroganoff, chicken,
Gyros, crab, Meat Loaf (2 out of 3 ain’t bad), Vegemite, fajitas, Naan, shrimp, Toad-in-the-hole (no toads were harmed in the making of this dish, but frogs are fair game for food…run Kermit, run!!!),
Jello, pot stickers, Buffalo wings (I get how they might fly, but how do they land?), chocolate/candy bars, Ginger Rogers, fish’n’chips, Christmas pudding, Poutine, chocolate pudding,
Pho, pita, Eggs Benedict Cumberbatch, enchiladas, Bloody Mary (Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary), grasshoppers (to each their own, if you cover them with chocolate…),
Sourdough bread, Saffron Burrows, Chop Suey, Croissants, chocolate–covered almonds, muffins, Sloppy Joes, Brioche, Banana bread,
Twinkies, Arnold Palmer, wontons, Tater tots (not made out of real tots), Carrot Top, hot dogs, hamburgers,
Jajangmyeon, rye bread, Souvlaki, Munster cheese (found at 1313 Mockingbird Lane), Kob
e beef, yogurt, snails (meow), Alison Brie Larson, turnovers, strudel, Beef Wellington, Gumbo, Kung Pao Chicken, Churros, Alyssa Milano cookies, nachos/salsa, ice cream,
Soufflé, snake, Harvey Milk, Sushi, Irish stew, Vanilla Ice (Ice Ice Baby), crepes, Souvlaki, Blinis, mac n’cheese, 
Bangers and Mash, Halston Sage, gnocchi, Chow Mein/Lo-Mein (just ‘mein’ line that stuff right into my veins), Kofta, chips/crisps,
Chocolate milkshakes, Coq au Vin Diesel, I Am GRoot Vegetables, chili, Pastitsio, Matzo Ball soup, chicken noodle soup, tomato soup…soup there it is (no soup for you!),
Pop/Soda/Soda Pop/Soft drinks, Tim Curry, cheesecake, lamb (“What do you mean, you don’t eat no meat? [the entire room stops, in shock]…That’s okay. I make lamb.” Hilarious line, only Andrea Martin could have pulled it off; My Big Fat Greek Wedding),
Sandwiches, bacon, peanut butter and banana sandwich, New York-style pastrami, pickles, clam chowder, Knish, Fiona Apple pie, cream pie, Cherry Jones pie, infinite pi?
Halle Berry cobbler, stromboli, Baked Alaska, haggis, Kugel, tamales, Beef Bourguignon, calamari, pancakes, caviar,
Waffles, Salmon Mousse, Cawl, Chuck Berry crumble (Roll Over Beethoven), French Fries, deep-fried ice cream, cannoli (leave the gun), hummus, lasagna, Reuben, popcorn…
Sorry, I think I just fell into a food fantasy spiral…Anyway, yeah yeah yeah yeah ’cause I really think food could bring us together,
think of it babe whenever, some foul-talking jerk comes along trying to divide us, you gotta stay strong…
Look in your heart
and let food keep us together…whatever.
I will, I will, I will
I will be there to share forever…
I recently tried to break free from my chocolatemania…not cold turkey (of course).
Just weaning myself down. As long as stress stays away (with Fibromyalgia and life, sounds reasonable), I’m sure the chocolate craving will as well (ha!).
Speaking of First World Problems ‘stress’ (https://yadadarcyyada.com/2015/04/10/im-hooked-on-a-feeling/), you may have noticed WordPress (can’t you just pretend to be nice? https://yadadarcyyada.com/2016/06/10/cant-you-just-pretend-to-be-nice/) with it’s new Gutenberg Editor has riddled posts and comments (https://yadadarcyyada.com/2019/05/03/very-me/)
with ADS, as far as I’m concerned, stealing our creative voice.
Unless you pay the greedy blog gods a ransom fee to remove the malware (aka ads).
Why does society put up with greed, lies and corruption, even making excuses for it? Could be we feel powerless, maybe we’re just so used to being lied to, we’ve got consumer Stockholm Syndrome.
Whatever the reason, it’ll only get worse. In The Game of Life (https://yadadarcyyada.com/2019/03/25/welcome-to-your-life/) you encounter obstacles, but at least there’s a chance to win; who thinks in this checkered world, the game is permanently fixed?
Death
You’ll die. I’ll die. None of us gets out alive. We didn’t ask to be here. Hopefully we had some good times along the way, but we’re all going to die, one way or another. Don’t have to like it; there it is. Someday you’ll blow out the last candle on your birthday cake. Answer a door to a Mister Death, something about the reaping. Go gentle into that good night or rage against it, but don’t just kill time getting there. Until then, hope you have the time of your life.
No one can make me smile as big as you do! If loving this is wrong I don’t wanna be right ! Pass the chocolate. Now. ❤
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I can all use way way way more smiles…and chocolate…and chocolate smiles. 😉
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The best kind! The Oreo cookie kind! 😊
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You said the magic word, cookie…mmmm, cookie.
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I knew that was the magic word!! :))
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They’ve always told it us it was ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ but maybe they meant “Please can I have a cookie” and “Thank you for the cookie”?
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I should be!
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I do Love Chocolate very much. We are here to consume and partake of as much as we can come in contact with. Then we will be worthy of leaving this Earth. Great post.
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I hear about possible future shortages of chocolate and I think, now that, that would be a dystopian future. 😉 🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫
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I have to agree. Are you connected to a Black Market of Chocolate?
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I wish…and I really wish I could grow it in window boxes. 😉
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Hold out for the future. You may be able to do that. Ha, Ha.
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Fingers crossed. 😉
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I am in your corner.
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We bloggers have to stick together. 🙂
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Thank you so much for your kindness, Ian, I appreciate the reblog. Leave it to you to do good for others while having difficulties. I hope things get less blocked and much better. xox
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#Donnamazing post and Chocky Choc ……🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫 is 6 enough 🍩🍩🍩 yum yum
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Don’t know if it’s every enough, but it’s worth trying to find out, isn’t it Ian. 🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫
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Posted here: https://acenewsdesk.wordpress.com/2019/05/30/featured-blogger-you-live-you-die-in-between-theres-chocolate-yadadarcyyada-donnamazing/
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Thank you so much for your kindness, Ian, I appreciate the reblog. Leave it to you to do good for others while having difficulties. I hope things get less blocked and much better. xox
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Reblogged this on lampmagician and commented:
I just say again EXCELLENT ❤❤❤👍👍❤
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Thank you, thank you, for the kind words and the delightful reblog. Hope this week is being good to you so far. I wish you peace, love, understanding and of course, chocolate. 🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫🍫
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Great post Donna!!!
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Thank you kindly, I wish you peace, love and chocolate. 🙂 🍫
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I certainly enjoy these, Donna. Chocolate is one of my food groups.
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It is a delight, isn’t it, John? Pure delight. 🍫
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Ha haha.
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“Chocolate is salad” makes me realize I have misclassified so many foods, for example: cakes, cookies, doughnuts – all made with flour which comes from wheat, a plant.
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You know that’s right, we all just got confused. 😉
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When Death comes calling, one says, ‘Hang on, old boy, just got to grab another chocolate slab before the slab slab.’
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Exactly, or Death By Chocolate, what a way to go! 😉
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Not fair, Donna! Why do you have to remind me of all those goodies that my doctor says is bad for me? Gotta treat myself to a chocolate bar this weekend 🙂
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Tell me about it, hence the food fantasy…sigh. Why did they make food so good that isn’t good for you? Seems cruel. But chocolate, no one can convince me it could be bad. 😉
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I just ate a HUGE triple dark fudge chunky chocolate chip cookie in the car. It was delicious and I loved every single bite. I dropped a chunk on the floor but decided it was best not to eat that bit, but it was a close call. Love your post, like always. So much fun….like always.
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I’ve had those kind of close calls and not ashamed to admit I haven’t always listened to the angel on my shoulder saying, just leave it there… 😉
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I clearly need a salad for lunch today – thanks for the info 🙂
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So much ‘salad’, nudge nudge wink wink say no more. 😉
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I love love LOVE chocolate. 😁 Can’t have the said chocolate. 🙁 Carob doesn’t cut it – but that’s all I got.
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I’m so sorry. Maybe soon they’ll find a way to help. Until then, what else do you like, was it on my list? I’ve had to give up onions and garlic which I’ve begun to suspect the world runs on, like a biofuel. 😉
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Oh dear, me too! I get bad migraines from onions. And garlic puts me into a deep sleep – and it isnt a nice kind of sleep. I live on fruit, nuts and air 😍
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Air doesn’t taste good and not very filling. lol 😉
Hope his day treats you kindly and you find some tasty air. 🙂
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Thank you very much Donna! So funny, and with deep thoughts too. 🙂 Hope you will have a beautiful weekend. Michael
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Thank you kindly and hope for wonders to fill your time. 🙂
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Thank you. Very kind of you, Donna! You too!
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Donna, your words are like chocolate.
And thank heaven for “the chocolate in between,” because the things sandwiching it have been rough lately.
I admit the death talk is worrisome and hope you are all right.
But then, maybe Death likes chocolate too… https://teagansbooks.com/2013/02/13/a-valentine-for-you/
Wishing you all good things… things so good they are delicious even without chocolate. Hugs on the wing.
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And you, dear friend are too kind, but I’ll take the magnificent compliment! Maybe that’s what I should call my About Me page, words like chocolate…
Of course Death likes chocolate and what’s that cake, Death By Chocolate. Thanks for link, a delicious path to follow… 🙂
Thank you for dropping by dear Teagan, you’re always a breath of fresh air.
Mega There’s nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate hugs xoxoxoxox
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I can watch, eat, swallow your posts all through days and nights 😂😂😂😂😂💖💖💖💖🙏🙏🙏🙏😂😂😂😂😘😘😘😍😍😍
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I just need to offer more treats then. lol 😉
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I will likely wait 😊🥰😍❤
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I’ve been inspired. 😉
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Wow, You made my dayyyyyyyyyyyyyssssssssss ❤ ❤
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I love that line from the Big Fat Greek Wedding – always cracks me up although I’ve seen that movie a dozen times. Yes, we die. but, as you’ve said so well, we won’t be alone…..
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It always makes me smile. 🙂
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Oh yes! Chocolate is a daily requirement!
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I know right…it’s like a day without chocolate is, oh who am I kidding, how would I know? 😉
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That’s for sure! I don’t know either.
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Now I’m so hungry….!! Love this:-)
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Who knew blogging could taste so good? lol 😉
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I have spent most of my life allergic to chocolate and NOW I can eat it. Well as long as it is not too much at one time. Love your humour and your chocolate. Let’s tempt them all and feature this post in the next Blogger’s Pit Stop.
Kathleen
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Oh I’m so happy for you, Kathleen! What a wonderful life change! 🙂
And thank you so much for the delightful feature!!! As you can see I’m playing catch up and this added to the already thrilling time I always find when I take a break over at the magnificent #BloggersPitStop (how do you all do this week after week, whatever it is, keep on doing it!).
Thank you kindly and hope the week ahead is filled with peace, love and understanding. 🙂
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I seriously just ate a piece of chocolate before I opened your blog! Perfect timing. Love it!
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It’s the circle of chocolate! lol 😉 It was meant to be! 🙂
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Thank you so much for the delightful feature!!! As you can see I’m playing catch up and this added to the already thrilling time I always find when I take a break over at the magnificent #BloggersPitStop (how do you all do this week after week, whatever it is, keep on doing it!). Thank you kindly and hope the week ahead is filled with peace, love and understanding. 🙂
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Thank you so much for the delightful feature!!! As you can see I’m playing catch up and this added to the already thrilling time I always find when I take a break over at the magnificent #BloggersPitStop (how do you all do this week after week, whatever it is, keep on doing it!). Thank you kindly and hope the week ahead is filled with peace, love and understanding. 🙂
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I’m more of a hot chips kind of gal, but after seeing all those chocolate memes, I’ve been reminded about why I’m a bit of a chocolate fan too – so many incarnations to choose from!
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Both sound good to me, food glorious food! lol 😉
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I have to give up regular (sugared) MOXIE but diet chocolate soda can be pretty nasty!Couldn’t I just gobble down more 97 % cacao dark chocolate, instead!???
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Sounds good to me!!! 😉
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
READ THIS BLOG REALLY FAST…AND SEE HOW FAR YOU GET BEFORE MAKING MISTAKES! DELICIOUSLY EVIL ACTIVITY TO SUGGEST FOR ANTONE TO TRY! 🙂
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Thank you kindly for the lovely reblog, Jonathan. Hope this week is being good to you and filled with peace, love, and chocolate. 🙂
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You’ve got me practically drooling on my keyboard – haha!
This is a wonderful celebration of food, but of life, too. Thank you for this. 🙂
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lol That’s what I was going for! 😉
Thank you kindly. so glad you enjoyed it and hope you’re enjoying this week so far. 🙂
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I’m all for that… Give me chocolate anytime! 😀
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Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I actually could give you chocolate through the internet? I’m all for progress if that’s in our future. 😉
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We’re going to have to work on that one… Who do we put the pressure on? 😀
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Sorry didn’t answer for a while, thinking and, oh who am I kidding, I was eating chocolate… 😉
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😀 😀 😀
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Living to eat and drink dark chocolate doesn’t leave any time to die.
But … don’t fear, I read that global warming is threatening the crops that lad to chocolate, that and coffee.
Imagine a hotter world without chocolate and coffee.
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I’ve heard tat too, I don’t drink coffee but know a lot of people who will lose their minds without it, but life without chocolate, I literally can’t imagine it and I have a very vivid imagination. 😉
Hope this week is treating you kindly. 🙂
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I AM having the time of my life! And obviously YOU are, too!! I have never seen such an impressive list of “likes” in my life! And I like almost ALL those foods, too. Especially your last ones: lasagna, Reuben, and popcorn! Made lasagna last night. Think it’s time for a Reuben now! And definitely popcorn with a movie tonight! My, how you inspire me!! 💞👍🏽
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Now you’re making me hungry, oh who am I kidding, I was already thinking of food lol 😉
Was the lasagna all melty with cheese, I can almost smell it. And if loving a Reuben is wrong, I don’t wanna be right. Popcorn, are you going for plain, buttered, caramel or topped? 😉
Hope you’re having a wonder-filled day and hope the rest of the week is filled with treats. 🙂
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Yes, all meaty and melty with lots of sharp cheddar and Parmesan. Yes, popcorn with lots of butter and with low salt! Mmmm!
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Drooling on my keyboard. 😉
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Thank you so much for the delightful feature!!! As you can see I’m playing catch up and this added to the already thrilling time I always find when I take a break over at the magnificent #BloggersPitStop (how do you all do this week after week, whatever it is, keep on doing it!). Thank you kindly and hope the week ahead is filled with peace, love and understanding. 🙂
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Chocolate trumps all other food groups. It is the one of the pleasures in life I would find extremely hard to do without.
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I know people use that expression a lot, I really can’t imagine but seriously, I really can’t imagine life without chocolate…really. 😉
Thanks for the drop by and follow and thanks for being you, hope the week ahead treats you kindly. 🙂
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Great post.
Thank you
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Thank you kindly. 🙂
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😊😊😊
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Thank you. I’m trying to have the time of my life, and I hope you are too, but now I need some chocolate! Even if it’s sugar free😅
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Hopefully we find what we need and what we want and they are one and the same. lol 😉
Wishing you a wonder-filled week. 🙂
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Very humerus article, brings many smiles.
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That’s wonderful to hear. 🙂
Hope this weekend is treating you kindly. 🙂
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Thank you kindly, Ian, I don’t know if you’re getting these comments, sometimes WordPress plays tricks (no treats) and says No!
Hope this finds you safe and sound. Thank you for the lovely reblog! How delightful!
Stay safe. Stay connected. 🙂
Big non-contagious hugs xoxo
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Thank you kindly, Ian, I don’t know if you’re getting these comments, sometimes WordPress plays tricks (no treats) and says No!
Hope this finds you safe and sound. Thank you for the lovely reblog! How delightful!
Stay safe. Stay connected. 🙂
Big non-contagious hugs xoxo
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