So....even though I bought sugar free chocolate pudding yesterday with the intention of avoiding ice cream, I did the right thing last night going for a big bowl of breyers chocolate and vanilla with broken up Oreo cookies?
yes?
;o)
I scrapped off the filling. Sputter, cough, gag. Can't stand the middle of an oreo cookie. I've always called it, "Sugar flavored Crisco".(My body is a temple? LOL)
~di
Ah, our justifications for chocolate. Let me count the ways!

Thanks for the giggle; Erma does make the point with the smoothness of a hot knife cutting brownies.

I've been -more or less- following my own advice to spend more calories than I take in. Like much good advice, it's easier to give than to follow. However, by eliminating the sodas and walking 6 flights of steps four times a day, I've lost 40 pounds in the past year. I occasionally hope that by next year I will be at an even more comfortable weight. This is based upon the assumption that my SIL will not introduce me to another fabulous double-chocolate dessert. (I love my SIL, but last week's vacation with him was an experience in locating the best [read richest] desserts.)

Erma was such a smart woman. She's the one,who after much research,discovered that coat hangers actually do reproduce.I believe everything she says,including the fact that if a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

LOL, Marda. I laughed out loud at that one. Does it go for baseball games, too?

Well I am back from Idaho where I had an Idaho Ice Cream Potato. This involves an oval of ice cream rolled in something like Nestles's Quick, split on the the top to insert whiopped cream (for the sour cream) and sprinkled with Oreo crumbs (for bacon bits). Very cute and delish I figure it is my duty to try everything once. It was a trip to go to my niece's wedding. Very nice and good to see my sisters, especially after the one regained her sanity when the wedding was over. I saw a lot of beauty in the Idaho landscape although it was very austere, nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there, not enough trees to hug. Sorry to hijack, brain is sleep deprived.

re: Erma's football quote.

I don't get it.

~di

but of course you don't. Those who are afflicted with this disease rarely even realize they have it. Kind of like bad breath or spinach in the teeth.

Don't all the lonely socks found in the washer turn into the extra plastic lids that don't fit any of the plastic bowls?

Jan

Oh, Jan ~~ lol, that's a new one for me! and here I always thought lonely socks went under the bed to become dustbunnies.

Oh what a delightful contribution this morning, Pidge. Your quotes from Emerson were top drawer, but the natives at the party this week want Bombeck and Chocolate. I'm in that mood too. Too many weeks of fighting droughths and heat I think and we're in mental rebellion.

I don't, nor never shall (double negative?) understand the washer/sock phenomenon. Both hubby and I agreed ten years ago to buy only one style sock for everyday wear. They're all matches now except our few pair of dress socks. The odd sock still pops up without a mate, but if we wait long enough there'll be another one. We call this lonely sock our emergency sock. LOL.

I noticed my weight slowly climbing up the last month or so and nipped that one in the bud pronto before it became an issue. It's a lot easier to lose ten than thirty. When the weather gets a little cooler I think most humans go into a state of preparing for hibernation. Never mind we don't hibernate, rofl, perhaps it's built into our prehistoric mitochondrial dna. I went looking for chocolate chips last night when marketing and was sticker shocked. The price has at least doubled since I last stocked up on them three years ago. I had at least twelve pounds of them in my freezer then.

Well, vickie, at least the 12 pounds weren't on your hips.

Pidge, I've always loved Erma Bombeck's humorous insights.

Right now, I weigh more than I ever have in my life. Practically none of my clothes fit. I don't own a pair of jeans I can zip up.

But I haven't had a cigarette in 8 months (as of Monday).

Now the work starts to undo the damage (which is far less bad than the damage of continuing to smoke, right?).

Yep, a few pounds is a small price to pay for being smoke-free, Mary. My DD #2 is in pretty much the same boat--no smokes for almost three years but also not much concern about the weight gain. I think she's happy with the trade!

I am a woman, so you mean the peanut butter chocolate-chip squares I made and ate last week had calories?

And here I thought peanut butter was good for you! LOL

Erma Bombbeck was a very wise woman (or is?)

Meldy, congrats on losing the 40 lbs. Thats somethingto be proud of.

Mary, thats great about no smoking.

As to calories in chocolate, I'm a diabetic and have to eat sugar free goodies and can feel so proud and i never think about all the other calories they add to sugar free stuff.

I thought it was scientific knowledge that there is a black hole in every clothes washer that swallows up socks. One at a time.
vickie