Chocolate - a Woman's Best Friend

I'm sure my female friends can relate to this. Is it just me, or are there certain days of the month where you crave chocolate a lot more than others?? But you don't just crave it, you like, NEED it. You want to drink it. Bathe in it. Dream about it. Wake up in a river of it. And you need it NOW. Badly. Or someone will get hurt. It might even only last only a day or two, but when it hits, look out!

Last night this was happening, and as I was watching Grey's Anatomy, I ate chocolate chips leftover from Christmas cookie-baking. It also didn't help that when flipping channels, I saw an ad for the "LG Chocolate" phone by Verizon Wireless. Even that looked pretty edible. Then I toyed with baking a chocolate cake out of the blue, but that would've interfered with my favorite TV show, and I couldn't miss that. At that point making some hot chocolate wasn't going to be enough. Luckily, I got tired, and I fell asleep during "Men in Trees."

But the need hasn't stopped today. There were a few leftover Hershey Kisses in the breakroom, but that didn't suffice. I rummaged through my work drawer today to only find some expired popcorn and some cup of soup. Um...yeah. Nothing chocolate-y about those things at all! The banana on my desk looks pretty good, but would look even better smothered in cacao-covered beans. So I broke down and ventured downstairs to purchase some overpriced Junior Mints in the machine. The box was gone within 10 minutes. The crazy thing is that I should feel ill, horribly sick to my stomach, but I don't. It was almost like my body needed this. My butt and hips sure don't need it, but I did. It's amazing the things we will consider doing for chocolate.