And I'm talking to my good friend, *Kelsy, right now! She's hanging in there, what with school, her Christian gospel group and chemo therapy. Some days are easier than others, but she's a trooper.

I refound the dream show for any die-hard chocoholic. A month or two ago I happened to be browsing the tv channels and one word on the TV Guide Channel caught my eye. Chocolate.

I quickly changed it to the Food Channel and waited till my show was on. An then, when it came on, I was in Chocolate Heaven. Thrills at seeing so much of that sweet brown staple of life shot through my system, and I wanted to dip my finger in and taste it. Then when the French chef announced what he'd be doing that episode, I thought I died and gone to Heaven. He made a cake and an aesthetically pleasing textured cake stand all out of chocolate. Which meant, hurray hurray, everything was edible.

But after that one time I could never manage to catch it on tv. Until today! *claps hands* No, though I may be acting like it, I'm not on a sugar high. Although, that show, aptly titled Chocolate, could give you a vicarious one...

Today, he made a champange bottle out of chocolate--with a mold of course--filled with cork-shaped chocolate truffles! He painted the gold foil wrapper on with edible paint, and I swear it looked real. To make the bottle look shiny he brushed both sides with a thin syrupy coating. The label itself was of white chocolate stenciled with dark. Once the truffles were made they were put into one bottle half and then he melted the other half to the one a bit so it was a whole bottle! Voila! You have a chocolate champange bottle filled with yummy truffles! I just love watching him; it's neat how chefs become artistes with a medium such as chocolate. *I changed her name to protect her.
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DON'T POSTPONE JOY.
~seen on a bumper sticker~

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