National Chocolate Day

Declared by the National Confectioners Association; today is National Chocolate Day. A holiday for chocolate?! Love that. Twist my arm- I’ll have some please. How could I, the everyday eating, can’t shut up about chocolate-loving girl have not known about this until now? I would’ve had a sweet soiree planned if I did. There’s always tomorrow. Every day is a chocolate celebration for me.

Here’s some information on the health benefits chocolate- (You know I had to throw some good reasons to eat my favorite stuff in here) so make sure your well-balanced diet of fruits and veggies include something chocolate. That and a glass of red one and BAM! You’re the pillar of health.
Do you think there’s some irony in me deciding to call South n’ France out of nowhere yesterday and just happened to set up a meeting with them for today? I can’t wait. What serendipitous timing.
Off to eat a bon bon or twelve…
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Be Good

I got an email from an older, wiser and much more experienced person than I about our company/events we have done recently and a portion of it said the following:

“No one will hire you because you are rich- they will hire you because you do good work.”
When you’re in your younger professional years, hungry for success and still believe in “old-fashioned” stuff like being an honest and hard working person- in 2009 you sometimes find yourself feeling a bit crazy, like you’re living in the twilight zone or that you’re out-dated because apparently “things are different these days.” 
What does that mean? We are supposed to be lazy and entitled? Hmmm….
Thankfully the combination of wonderful friends, family and a random email like the above from a professional who’s been around the block and then some in the business world- pop into the inbox to help give that little push to a young professional so they will keep believing that yes indeed, doing good work means everything. 
Thanks M.W. Glad we snubbed you first (HA!) so you’d ask us why and the conversations could start. Now we can be friends and do good work together. Everything really does happen for a reason.
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Sugary Oink Oink

I just heard the average American eats 12 pounds of chocolate a year. Come on people! Open up and say ahh. We have some catching up to do! The Swiss are putting us to shame eating double that per year. I must have some serious Swiss blood in me because I easily eat 50 pounds of the sweet stuff a year all by myself. 

I never met a chocolate I didn’t like. I’m not sure about chocolate covered bacon though. Ok, ok I lie. I’ve said even if chocolate was on a sock and I would eat it, so hats off to you for creativity Vosges. I guess I’ll have to try this stuff with my pancakes some morning.
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Chillin’

Sitting here this morning working on a productive start to the week and thinking about my last post about the piles of, well- lets call them challenges that have been going on in my life this year, I have never been happier or felt more positive about things. Isn’t it weird how that works? Perhaps it’s something about getting older, feeling more at ease and peace with things and really understanding that you can’t control everything. People have told me to relax my whole life and while I’ve tried, I’ve never been a bit good at it until now. 

Boy have I been missing out. 

For all of you out there like me, who instinctually want to kick, scream, cry and fight- all the time and about everything; Just relax. The sooner you do, the sooner it will all work out. Promise, and no- I didn’t believe it either until now.
Happy Monday.
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