Asha Anujeeva's Attitude

For years I’ve heard that eating chocolate releases a chemical in the bloodstream that gives the consumer the same “rush” that they get when they are in love. Maybe that is why giving a woman birthday chocolates or Valentine’s day chocolates is such a popular gift. I’ve read that eating dark chocolate is actually supposed to be healthy for you, but to be honest I don’t care for the bitterness of dark chocolate. My favorite chocolate is white chocolate, which I understand isn’t really chocolate at all, but is almond paste.

Whenever I make a batch of brownies from a mix I like to add some semi-sweet chocolate chips in the batter. If I have some white chips I’ll add them too. I think that it just makes the brownies a little bit extra special. You should try it too sometime; your family will love you for it!

There is a neighborhood cat that we see walking around our yard everyday.  We’ve never tried to get close to it, we always figured it would just run off.  Besides, we didn’t want to start feeding it and never get rid of it.  We hoped it belonged to someone and wasn’t a wild cat, but we weren’t sure if it did have a home or not.  Tonight we saw the cat walking across our back yard, dragging one of it’s rear legs, obviously badly hurt.  By the time I could get to the door to try to coax the cat to me, to try to take care of it, it had disappeared into the woods.  I’m very upset that it is hurt, and now I’m afraid that it doesn’t have an owner to take it to the vet.  I’m afraid that gangrene will set in and it will suffer a painful death.

Wow, I just learned more in the few minutes that it to read the “A Toast To Champagne: History and Fun Facts” that I posted below than I’ve ever know about Champagne and I’ve put down some Champagne in my life, I can tell you that! So I thought I would post this little blurb here for grins and giggles. It’s just one of those days where a nice bottle of Champagne and a box of Chocolate would be Fantastic!

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I was shopping at my local Wal-Mart and heard some of the employees talking about how pretty soon Wal-Mart will be requiring their customers to bring their own bags!  I wonder how well the customers are going to be taking that!  Personally, I’m glad – I have several canvas shopping tote bags that I bought a long time ago that I would like to use for my weekly groceries.  Even though I bring most of my empty Wal-Mart shopping bags back to the Wal-Mart for recycling, I really would prefer to not have to deal with them.  Although they DO make good little trash can liners!

I was reading a BBC.com website news story today about how 48% of the world’s primate species are facing extinction.  The article explains that a large reason for that was the deforestation of the world; people are cutting down and/or burning the forests that the primates live in.  That was depressing news.  But what really surprised me was to read in the article that the extinction is being exacerbated by hunters who are hunting the primates for food!  I did not realize that people considered monkeys as edible!  I don’t know why, I just never really thought people would eat monkeys.  That makes me especially sad, since I consider primates to be so closely related to humans that it almost seems cannibalistic to eat them!