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 that you were born.

You should have a three digit number.

The first digit of this was your original number (i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).

The next two numbers are YOUR AGE!

It worked for me! Did it work for you?

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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?

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

Happy Mother’s Day from Chocolate Bytes!

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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 can see it’s also popular with 1/3 of the pet population.

What does your writing space look like?

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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 it Rot! The Gardener’s Guide to Composting – Leapin Lemur and Penguin Puffs
Simply Thrifty – Coupon Organizer
Offbeat Homes – Building With Awareness Guidebook on DVD
Hankering for Yarn – Butterfly Earrings
Junk Creations – EcoHangers
Stamping Mad – Stamping Hobbyists Gift Set
Jewelry and Beading – Artful Blogging Magazine
Layers Upon Layers – Art Doll Quarterly
Quilting and Patchwork – The Magic of Patchwork Book
Babylune – Hanes Gift Certificates
Tool Belt Tips – 2 Cases Thompson’s Water Seal
Tangled Thread – Tags and Tie Dyes Contest
Busy Family Meals – Asian Cooking Starter Kit
Blog Fabulous – Boogie Dance Giveaway
Thrifty Mommy – Honey Thyme Herb Farm, Recycled Bags, Cooking Light Cookbook – Towel Spa
Weary Parent – You’re a Good Mom Gift Set, Blume Girl Boutique Giveaway, Blog Design
Supernanny Rules – Skincare by Amino Genesis
Kettle and Cup – The Tea Table Book
Baking Delights – Hello Cupcake Book
Behind the Vine – Wine lovers will love Vacu Vin
Solo Mother – Sexy Dancing
Keeping the Castle – Hypoallergenic Pillow from Lands’ End
Career and Kids and GenBetween – 5 SanDisk Gator Cruzer 4GB Flash Drives – contest 1 – contest 2
Play Library – Melissa and Doug Birthday Party Cake Toy
A Child Chosen – Crystal and Pearl Earrings
One Book Two Book – Tessy and Tab Reading Starter Kit

Have fun and best of luck!

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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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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 good the swag is!)
Drop business card in box – $250 chip
Use your chips to play poker and win (or lose) even more!
Beat b5media’s CEO – Jeremy Wright – DOUBLE your chances

Each day, b5 will have an auction in our booth (booth #309, at 2:30 Thursday and Friday) and attendees can use their chips to bid on the prizes. As noted, we will be doing a secret password. You can find these passwords in various b5media blogs (including this one!). Participants only need to approach someone in the b5media booth with the password and they will get a token.

So, if you’re going to the Expo – and you’d like to get a $500 chip to start with (so you can bid on the fabulous prizes) – the first secret password is: “b5alicious”.

Watch for more secret passwords scattered about b5media. And let me know if you win any of the b5 prizes, I won’t be able to attend this year! (Sad, I know, but the cost was prohibitive and the husband’s out of state for work during the whole thing so there’s no one to watch the kids in the evening. I’ll live!)

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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

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