My addiction

I have a confession. Ever since I can remember, I have been addicted to something. If you know me, you know exactly what it is. I don't go one day without it. I mean not one single day. At some point in my day, something in my brain says "I need it". I start to get lightheaded. I get the shakes. I have hallucinations and can't control myself. Well, that last bit (or the whole part) was very exaggerated. Ok...here is what I cannot go one day without:



I love chocolate. I love dark chocolate and milk chocolate. Chris makes so much fun of me and doesn't understand it. He just knows I'm obsessed with it. While I love chocolate, I think I'm just obsessed with dessert. It's closure to my meal. If I don't have some kind of dessert, I feel weird. Like I'm walking around with toilet paper on my shoe. It's just weird. Sure, I'll eat apple or peach cobbler but usually my dessert has chocolate involved.

You know how you go out with friends and family and you eat dessert? Oh, you've eaten too much so perhaps you want to split something. Not me. I don't ever want to split it, but sometimes I will to be curteous to someone who does. Here's another confession. Whenever the waiter/waitress says "Would you care for any dessert", I always look down and say nothing and let the other person say "No, thank you". I might put on an act like "oh I could never eat any dessert" and I'll eat something sweet when I get home. Who wants to look like a Fatty McGee by being the only person who wants dessert? Well, certainly not me!!

I've never been to full for dessert. I will never say the following phrase: "This is too rich/sweet. I can't eat any more". Never will you ever hear me say that. If you and I are eating together and you say that horrible statement, I might go "Mmmm hmmm" but that really means "shhhh, I'm enjoying my dessert". I just need therapy for my chocolate/dessert obsession.

Anytime I go to a place like Golden Corral, I have a certain pattern. I eat a decent size salad. Funny thing about that is that my salads are really healthy. I don't eat one piece of lettuce and then 5 pounds of ranch dressing. Side note: I don't like ranch. I should be kicked out the south, I know. Anyway, I eat salad and then maybe some green beans and slice of chicken/ham or meat product of some type. Then, it's on to the dessert portion. I'll eat the yogurt that turns to soup by the time I get to my table with everything piled on top. I'll go back twice to get my fill of dessert-like goodness.

My catch phrase in life is this: "Life is uncertain, eat dessert first". So go ahead and eat that piece of chocolate because if you don't, I will.