TheBanyanTree: this is what addiction is like

[Julie Anna Teague]

Quoting Laura <wolfljsh at gmail.com>:


> I suppose if you must be addicted to something, running is a good
> thing.  Unlike myself, who
> is addicted to sugar, and has a whole store full of Easter candy at
> 75% off, just
> SCREAMING my name.

I sometimes have a problem with sugar if it's right there in front of 
me, so I try not to have it in front of me.  Darling husband got me a 
bag of one of my favorite candies for Easter--malted milk chocolate 
eggs with the candy coating.  They are so pretty, like robin's eggs.  
The malt makes them sort of melt in your mouth.  I ate several of them 
and then vowed to get rid of the rest of the bag as soon as he wasn't 
looking, along with the peeps he also got me.  I can always pass on 
peeps except as a fun microwave experiment: mega peep explosion.  I 
also had a couple of Cadbury orange cream eggs, and I just didn't want 
to go there.  Not after Easter celebration dinners two days in a row, 
which was enough.  Enough, I say.  This morning I put all the candy in 
a bag and thought I'd take it to work.  Nope, not safe.  I could still 
get to it at work if I had a weak moment.  And many of my weak moments 
come in the long hours of the afternoon at work.  So when I went into 
the bagel shop to get a cup of coffee this morning, I took the bag of 
candy with me and asked the skinny teenager dude behind the counter if 
he wanted it.  He looked in the bag and said, "Cadbury eggs??  Heck 
yeah!"  College kid far from home, no doubt.  He looked like he could 
use a little treat.  Everyone's happy.



Julie