I have an addiction and its not to TToT (Ten Things of Thankfulness). I guess the TToT police are speed reading to discover my addiction.
Once in a blue moon, I draw up different and special shopping lists. Here’s one of those esoteric lists:
I give thanks for an extra budget to permit me to indulge in some foods.
- Hot chocolate mix.
- Nutella
- M & S Triple Chocolate Crunch
- Pop Tart Frosted Cookies N Cream
- Pop Tart Frosted Chocolate Fudge
- Pop Tart Frosted S’mores
- Toblerone White Chocolate with Honey and Almond Nougat
- Toblerone Dark Chocolate
- Tim Horton’s Chocolate Marshmallow Glazed Dream Donut
- Starbucks Choc Sprinkle Donut
My addiction is now in plain sight!
PS – Don’t worry about me. I’m not that into chocolate. And I’m not fat. I eat very little chocolate per serving.
Post-Postscript – I’m not selling chocolate products.
BEFORE, WHEN THEY BE YOUNG.
Wordless one panel comic.
Back in the day when this cake was young, he used to laugh at other cakes who lost their balance and toppled over. I probably should update this with another pic, showing his present situation now.
AFTER 50 YEARS, WHEN IT BE AGED.
There’s another panel to be arranged alongside the above panel, but it is not drawn yet.
Just in case the TToT police object to my frivolous list, here’s my serious, regular one:
- Thanks for food
- Thanks for rain
- Thanks for working days
- Thanks for no work days
- Thanks for the free exhibition at the art museum
- Thanks for the ticketed fashion fair
- Thanks for returning to Six Sentence Stories which accepts entries every Wednesday to late Saturday night.
- Thank you readers and bloggers.
- Thank you to God, the Holy Trinity, His angels and saints
10. Thanks for cheap grass cutting labor from crawlers who roam the neighborhood searching for odd jobs.
Before grass trimming:
After grass cutting:
After each grass mowing, the underlying layer is exposed as dry and dead.
A snail enjoys the after edition of mowed grass,
as it slides along the hewed blades,
probably in search for food.
(My poor attempt at impromptu verse)
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You MUST play this cheerful, thankful song! You’ll thank me for this. 🙂
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Post-post-postscript:
Can I lobby Clark?
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Badge? TToT badge?
Chocolate is wonderful! It might even be a health food for all I know.
Some studies claim chocolate and dark chocolate eaten in moderation, might give some benefits to health. Thanks for visiting.
I always stock 85% chocolate in my fridge and it satisfies the craving for a pudding! I have also been on a low carb diet and discovered that cocoa powder only needs sweetening to taste like chocolate so i use it in overnight oats sweetened with stevia, and with pureed walnuts and dates to make very satisfying balls that also suffice for pudding.
I have tried, but I just can’t fall in love with Haiku even though I understand the Japanese elegance of the form – I stick with John Cooper Clarke’s assessment, that
To write a poem
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic
Dear Andrew,
You made your point with wit. The poet is stopped mid-thought when the form calls for only 5 syllables.
White, Dark or “Normal” Chocolate is made with different percentages of cocoa. I would choose the lower percentages because I fear insomnia with cocoa as it contains some caffeine. I use chocolate for another reason; it helps a bit with the gut.
Thank you for the tip on how to make your own chocolate.
Beautiful snail photo!
Thank you for visiting. Some weeks, I don’t have pretty pics, but will continue to be on my lookout for worthy snaps.
Please, be thankful for chocolate all you want. There’s no rule about it. I enjoyed your whole post.
Yes, thank you. I know the danger of sugars and intolereance later. I eat 1 tablespoon on the day I need it. Otherwise it is only the chocolate / cocoa hot drink.
Mmm… Nutella…. Chocolate…. mmmm…
But the rain, cute snail photo and the free exhibition and the cake on it’s side,
I also know that I would like to know what happened to the cake.
Nice thankfuls! Hopefully the next week be nice too.
Dear Reelika,
Thank you for caring about the cake. A simple panel is freshly painted and pasted in the space below the “Before when they were young”. “Now” it looks different.
cai
one thing: a) there are no Rules in TToTonia… ok, you got me, there is one…. not rule as much as a qualification for participation: that one has good intent; and 2) Badge… I think I once knew about badges and, if they (badges) are like square illustration things the TToT might have one or did have one (I know you looked at the old, old post from this hop, a couple of weeks ago, was there a bad there? wait lemme go look…hold on.)
ok back on this day in 2014 there is a Doctrine post commemorating the 1 year anniversary of the TToT.
there is something referred to as a ‘banner’ it’s a small, square graphic with an embedded link back to Lizzi R’s blog. is that a badge?
may have to resort to email as I am now believing the banner had been updated since that time but before my tenure.
don’t forget! the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) sound intimidating and off-putting to some. However it maintains that if one wishes to offer an improvement/suggestion/innovation or exasperation, then all one needs to do is cite the specific Rule, chapter, section and verse (don’t forget the ibids and op. cits!) and you’re good.
will email what I find