It’s December 24th and my brother and his wife sent me a tin of cookies and chocolate for Christmas. That’s nice. All the different confections are in separate plastic bags with decorative ties. Classy. (The good thing is now I have a supply of treats to last until at least the Sugar Bowl. We are lucky Ohio State is even IN the Sugar Bowl with all of the championship ring selling and tattoo getting. But that’s another story.)

For now I am just going to have some of this white chocolate. Actually, it’s not even chocolate because white chocolate doesn’t have cocoa in it. What I can report is that it is really, really good. Maybe too sweet. There are about 8 pieces in the little bag. I’m just going to have 3 and close it up for later. It’s A Wonderful Life is on. I love this movie. I like how Uncle Billy stumbles in to all those trash cans and makes a huge ruckus and George just stares at him.

Man, I shouldn’t have the rest of these pieces but the bag is already open. That’s way too much sugar for one person. Especially with my current weight. Wow, those pieces are smaller than they looked originally.

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