Au Chocolat

Special K Chocolately Delight, fat-free milk, and Rain Forest Nut coffee.

I guess I had this cereal in honor of the fact that we were confirmed as attendees for the 2008 AllCandy Expo in Chicago! Yay!I wish I wasn't as excited about this as I really am, but as a life-long candy-lover (yeah, obvs!) I can't wait to live out my real-life Willy Wonka fantasies. (Note: This has nothing to do with Gene Wilder in purple top hat with matching velvet undies. ) It has to do with candy! Wall-to-wall blaring convention center glitz with enough free candy samples to put me in a diabetic coma. Gooooooo insulin!!

All the big name players will be representin': Mars, Hershey, Nestle, Cadbury Adams, NECCO (I freaking hate NECCO wafers though), Pez, Lindt & Sprungli (what's a Sprungli?), Wrigley's, Jelly Belly, and the Ferrara Pan Co. (Don't know Ferrara Pan Co.? You only think you don't. Hello Lemonheads, Atomic Fireballs, Boston Baked Beans, and Red Hots! I defy you to tell me you aren't familiar with any one of those.) It's not *just* candy though, salty snacks and granola bars will also be in the house (Jerky Snack Food, Utz). Hotlix will be there, and I'm not 100% certain but I think they make the tequila flavored lollipops with a worm in them. I don't even want to begin that discussion-- tequila does not have worms!! But I digress. I also want to see what is up with Oral Fixation Mints. (Oh, that was easy. I'm intrigued now.)

Naturally, I'm going wearing my Marketing Assistant/Buyer hat for Giovanni's Deli in beautiful Fair Lawn, NJ. The deli is thinking about branching out into the direction of gourmet chocolate and fine candy gifts, and we are going to check out what's innovative and available in the niche market of fine and unique candies. (That sounds pretty good acutally.)

(Cinnamon) Life is Good

Cinnamon Life, fat-free milk = good!

Chocolate Covered Strawberries (Almost)

Special K Chocolatey Delight (which I love, despite not being a huge fan of chocolate), fat-free milk, and fresh strawberries. Oh, and Rain Forest Nut coffee. The Special K CD is really good. They advertise it as something you're supposed to eat as a late-night snack when you get the sugar-chocolate craving munchies, but I am just fine with having it for breakfast. I pretty much like all the flavors of Special K, although really, what a horrible name. I guess because I'm fat, and have to eat diet cereal for breakfast, I'm also retarded too?

I saw a rainbow this morning while I was walking my dog. I am taking it as some sort of good omen.

Special O.K.

Special K Red Berries and skim milk and hazlenut coffee. Can you just feel the health?

I don't know if it's health that I'm feeling, since I was up half the night, tossing and turning, my dog peed on my bed, and I had to sleep on a towel at 3:30am. And I still got up and went to the gym. If this is health I'm feeling, it kind of feels like shit.

Leggo My Eggnog Coffee

Yogurt Burst Cheerios (Vanilla) with skim milk. The eggnog was in my coffee, not in my cereal. It was eggnog flavored coffee too, so it was a double-blast of noggocity.

It's Saturday, which is a great, since my breakfast yesterday was about the only good thing that happened to me that morning. I found myself unwittingly in the middle of a power struggle between two higher-ups that ultimately had nothing to do with me. Except for the fact that after being encouraged by my boss to make more decisions without his input, I made a decision based on input from the other party, and it was apparently the wrong decision. My boss took it out on the other party, who I guess was perceived as sticking her nose in where it didn't belong, or, even purposely and subtly persuading me to do the exact opposite of what my boss wanted. I corrected it immediately, but a flurry of tension and snotty emails ensued. Bleh. This morning is much better, probably because I'm still in my pajamas, and about to go play Super Mario Galaxy.