The Day After

My favorite day of the year is today, February 15th, the day after Valentine's. Why? Is it because the stress of planning a wonderful Valentine's Day dinner for the loved one is over? No more racking the brain trying to decide which diamond ring to pick out? No more fretting over whether it will all pay off and I might actually get some at the end of the night???

Nah... February 15th is my favorite day of the year because I'm a chocoholic... so today all the V-day candy is on sale. And even better than that, it's the first day Easter candy is available. And that means... I can start on my yearly binge of Cadbury Mini-Eggs!!!

Gawd, I don't know how I make it through the rest of the year without these chocolately balls of heavenly goodness. The crunchy candy shell has a light dusting of what I truly believe is some raw form of crack cocaine, cause there's no other way these damned little things can be so addictive. I can go through a whole one-pound bag in a day... in fact, I'm almost half-way through my first bag of the season, which I just picked up at lunch time.

One year, a coworker of mine kept track of how many bags of Mini-Eggs I ate, and determined that I had a caloric intake equivalent to eating 2 McD Big Macs a day! It's amazing I'm not Mini-Egg-shaped myself!

And now that I have this forum to keep track of my daily going-ons, don't be surprised if this turns into a Mini-Egg Counting Blog, at least through a few weeks after Easter.

Valentine's Day itself turned out to be really nice, especially since my wife didn't want anything fancy-schmancy... rather she wanted to spend a day at the Poker tables with me! I had the day off work, so we did some casino-hopping and hit some of the daily tournaments. I ended up money-ing in 2 out 3 of them!

I'll write up about the tourneys later, that will give me something to do throughout the week... that is, if I haven't overdosed on Mini-Eggs by then!