This is one of those fun little forwards that ends up in your email every once in a while. It’s called “chocolate math” and you may need a calculator to help you out

Chocolate Math
1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (2 to 9).
2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold).
3. Add 5.
4. Multiply it by 50 (I’ll wait while you get the calculator).
5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759. If you haven’t, add 1758.
6. Now subtract the four digit year …read more

I’m having one of those days. Do you know what I mean? There’s so much to do and I just don’t have the energy or enough hours in the day to do it all.
I just want to sit here on the couch and surf mindlessly with Food Network on the TV and some yummy chocolate next to me. Alas.
What’s your favorite comfort chocolate/treat?

Image details: Japanese Consumers Enjoy The Health Benefits of Dark Chocolate served by picapp.com

Happy Mother’s Day from Chocolate Bytes!

Last week the Lifestyles Channel shared the spot(s) they write from but I was still out of state and didn’t get a chance to participate, though I wanted to!
So here’s my desk. It’s located in the corner of our family room and is connected to my husband’s desk which is right behind me and faces the wall on the right (he custom-made it). We desperately need an office and hopefully that’ll be happening sooner than rather later!

As of my birthday last year (my husband got me a laptop) this is another spot I can now write from! As you …read more

Image details: Health Food Junk Food served by picapp.com
The Lifestyles channel is participating in the bloggy giveaways this week. I’m not because I’m not going to be around for the next week and won’t be able to keep up on it, but check out what everyone else is doing and see how you can win!
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Here are some of the giveaways going on right now! There will be more giveaways going on throughout the week, so you may wish to sign up for our channel feed.
Tree Hugging Family – Mothering Magazine Subscriptions – Big Green Purse
Mother Earth’s Garden – Let …read more

Via Taxgirl.com: in Iowa, a Milky Way Dark candy bar is taxable, but a classic milk chocolate Milky Way is not.
What? Yeah, I know.
The confusion apparently stems from Iowa’s definition of candy, sales tax laws, and the inclusion (or exclusion) of flour. You can read the whole thing at Roth & Co. (And while you’re there you can read about Iowa getting themselves in a bunch over taxing pumpkins: for carving or for food.)
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b5media will be at Blog World Expo November 7th, 8th and 9th. As a special feature, b5media is going to be hosting some special games during event, including the b5media Poker Game! And, if you happen to be a winner at poker, you’ll walk away with some pretty grand prizes such as iPhones, Wiis, iPods and Xboxes.
Attendees of BlogWorld Expo can collect b5 poker chips throughout the conference in several ways:
Be seen wearing a b5media T-shirt – $1000 chip
Answer b5media trivia – $500 chip
Tell us our secret password – $500 chip (see below)
Awesome swag trade – (depends on how …read more

Arr! Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Guess what I did? If you said dug up a bunch of pirate-related chocolate stuff you would be correct!

Chocolate Pirate drink
Pirate Treasure Chest Full of Gold
M&M’s Pirates of the Caribbean
Milk Chocolate Pirate
Pirate’s gold
Pirate ship chocolate mold
Pirate cupcakes (vesus ninjas!)
White chocolate sugar skulls
Chocolate pirate ship cake