J took me shopping last night, as my birthday present from him was a clothes shopping spree (that dipped into the boots category over the weekend—how luck am I?) I am one to fully appreciate sales, and end-of-season-sales are particularly wonderful, but it seems that somewhere during the flip of the calendar page all the big stores rid themselves of their sale section and dedicated themselves fully to their spring line. Yes, I know this is how fashion works, and yes, I understand that some parts of the country (where?) are probably experiencing a gradual warming. But Punxsutawney Phil aside (despite the fact that even he has predicted six (ha) more weeks of winter), it stays cold here well into April. Sweater weather even. And even when it starts to heat up a bit, we still have several more months until it’s time to break out the flip flops and shirts with palm tree prints. You’d think they’d consider the money they’d make selling warm clothes to people when it is cold outside. Cold! As in 33-degrees. As in not micro-mini weather.
But you know what is good when it is cold? Hot chocolate. And woe to all of you who don’t live in New York and who cannot visit City Bakery and who cannot eat their giant cookies and drink the melted sauce they pass off as hot chocolate. Woe. They are actually having a hot chocolate festival this month with a new flavor every day and this is bad news because this means I am thinking about chocolate many more times a day than is absolutely necessary. I am not even a chocolate person, really. I couldn’t tell you where this intense craving is coming from. But anyway, here’s how you can help me. Go here and enter their contest. When you win, you can give the $50 to me and I will subsequently pass my happiness along to others, and just like that Coke commercial, everyone will soon be glowing in happy thoughts. World peace is what I’m promising, nothing less.
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