h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi JEllen! Yes, things are going well. I hope things are improving for you and your family? I think of you often, and miss our Friday night chats.

The new monitor is working out okay, though I think we may invest in one that rings in my room instead of Mom's room.

I will have to remember that you get online on Fridays and be on more often then.

I've been blissing out to some new Beethoven CDs.

Have you seen the new smileys?

I can see how a monitor that rang in your room could be a plus.

The new smileys are pretty cool. I especially like the , although I expect I'll be able to get some mileage out of .

I'm on most Friday nights. Even if K doesn't practice, we usually take a break from movies and take turns reading and being online. Especially when I've had a crazy week and haven't been able to et onto h2g2 from work.

It's *really* cold here tonight!

Hi JEllen...oh things are going ok P/C - just not sleeping as good as I could be. Close enough most nights I suppose.

OK, Jaz'd. I'll quit worrying then.

Speaking of not sleeping enough (and truth be told, I haven't been- K's on a 4:00 AM to 2:00 PM shift right now so I'm up at around 3:00 most days, even if I don't get out of bed till 4:00ish), it's about 9:20 here and I'm pretty darn close to being ready for bed. Herman the 's already in there... I might join him!

Souns like a plan! Catch those zzzzz's when you've got the chance..

Here's a rather purple literary chocolate quote I found on my bookshelf.


"In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known."


Joanne Harris from the novel 'Chocolat'.

Chocolate doesn't make the world go round, but it sure does make the trip worthwhile.

Anonymous

"Chocolate is the perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficient restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits."

Baron Justus von Liebig, German chemist (1803-1873)

"The superiority of chocolate, both for health and for nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America, which it has in Spain."

Thomas Jefferson

Florence Nightingale, the mother of modern nursing considered a basic ingredient of healthcare.

Research tell us fourteen out of any ten individuals like chocolate.

Sandra Boynton from her book, 'Chocolate-The Consuming Passion'

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and by Shakespeare. Neither knew chocolate. The Swiss are known for nonviolence. They are also known for superb

Sandra Boynton

I got this quote from the wrapper of a gourmet organic chocolate bar.

You may deprive the body, but the soul needs chocolate.


~The Dagoba mantra~

I go up and down on my weight. I bought some scales in January and kept them in the kitchen, but now yhey're in my chocolate drawer!

Nigella Lawson

Hmm, that's ..They're in...perhaps it's time my fingers were getting at some?

Mum: "Fred, there were two chocolate cakes in the pantry yesterday, and now there's only one. Why?"

Fred: "I don't know. It must have been so dark I didn't see the other one."

"All I really need is love,
but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!"

~Lucy Van Pelt (Peanuts comic strip character by Charles M. Schultz)

(*sigh*fond mmories of Peanuts)