Divine, Sensuous, Decadent...

...Just a few adjectives a chocolate lover would attribute to her affair.

"A tempting, luscious, creamy chocolaty filling surrounding a whole hazelnut, within a delicate, crisp wafer...all enveloped in milk chocolate and finely chopped hazelnuts..." This is what Ferrero Rocher offers to its consumers.
A passionate treat.

I am amazed at the attention and thought the creator of F.R. would have put into it. To me, it looks like the layers of the Earth - the Core, Mantle, the Crust!!!
The hard hazelnut core, the chocolaty lava mantle, the wafery crust and the choco-nutty top soil.
Layers of surprises, all in a 1.5" diametered sphere.

I though I had lost interest in chocolates since my Hyderabad days (Thanks to my overdose on Twix, M&M, Toblerone, etc. ) Once in a way, Ferrero Rocher used to interest me, but never like now.

My fridge is like a cornucopia of chocolates, but with really no one other than my guests to enjoy them. Not that Sai or myself do not like them, but, we somehow have lost interest in them atleast 4-5 years back. One box would just be over when another friend would bring in another. Once, owing to an earlier passion, we bought a box of alcoholic chocolates from Costco (imagine, like 100 of them) and they sat on the microwave top for about a year, getting heated, cooled, solidified, liquified (seasonal changes) till we threw them out one day (Apologies). I thought that one had to reach middle age to enjoy it, like Kumar would remark.

Last week, I carefully remembered to get F.R. during my regular grocery shopping, for taking it to a friend on the weekend. On Sunday, I put it out on the kitchen counter, lest I forget to take it on my way out. Goodness! Gracious! And, I still forgot to take it with me.

Ok, it lay there, why not take one? And, then very slowly, I was feasting on one of them. I realised what I had been missing all this while. (Well, well, it has really made me write all this, I am not kidding :> ) Sinfully Delicious:)

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Real Life laziness, or, is it?

I used to disagree when someone says, "Oh, how well 'Everybody Loves Raymond' connects to real life!!". Well, there are so many things I am critical about, but I realised that I was wrong about this when...

...today, I was watching an episode where Debra and Raymond come home after a vacation, leave their suitcase on the stairs for over 3 weeks and it is just sitting there waiting for one of them to remove it, and neither does. When either want to take clothes from inside, they just take it from the suitcase, with no plans of even moving it aside.

I was just too surprised (or shocked?). OMG!!!Did they know? Just about 10 days back, while watching something on the TV, I asked Sai to bring the clothes from the dryer. He did, placed the basket on the widest stair, and joined me to watch the program. (Well!!! No one is in a mood to carry a load of clothes at midnight, not the least, take it upstairs)

We just commented, "Yes, it is going to sit here for the next 2 weeks" and continued with the show.

When we reach home, a jacket would be thrown in the basket.
Sai left to Texas 3 days back, and some clothes were taken out from it.
I used a towel or two (from you know where), the basket was there.
A wash cloth came out, but the basket was still there...
And today, I watch the episode, and the basket is still sitting there, in front of me, on the stairs.

Did we (or, I) get so much used to things lying around, or is it sheer laziness, or did we not have time? It did not bother us at all. It never striked me that it was not supposed to be there, and that the contents needed to reach their respective shelves.

Ok, Ok.
I am going to pick up Sai from the airport in a few hours, let me better get this basket and folding done before we live the episode ;)

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