The Chronic Consumer

I don’t eat many candy bars now, but when I was in high school, I used to have one almost every day. That habit probably also explained all my cavities (I remember getting the news during a particularly grim checkup that I had 6 cavities) and my medicine chest full of the best diet pills I could find! I’m not sure what made me give up my chocolate binges all those years ago. Maybe I finally took a look at the nutrition information and realized how many calories were in each tiny serving!

At any rate, here’s my list:

1. Twix — My all-time favorite. Chocolate, caramel, and a cookie stick… what could be better??
2. Skor –I would take a bite, suck the chocolate off until it melted, and then enjoy the toffee part by itself.
3. Whatchamacallit — Dumb name, but the product tasted damn good!
4. Mars — For some reason, I preferred Mars bars without the chocolate! I would peel or cut the chocolate off and just eat the inside part. Weird, I know…
5. PayDay — Peanuts and caramel. Pretty simple, and pretty good!

I’m sick of how my home office looks. I’ve been sitting in the same place for 4 full years now, and haven’t changed anything in all that time except my desk chair. I want a different look in this room, but can’t afford to buy all new office furniture just because I’m tired of the old stuff.

So what can I do? Well, rearrange the entire room, of course! I’ve spent the morning moving my desk and filing cabinets from one wall to the other. I’ve taken down all my picture frames and will recycle the photos that are in them (digital frames would come in handy right now), and I’m going to go out later to get a plant or something.

This is perhaps not as drastic a change as I would like, but the room definitely looks different and it was the best I can do with no money to spend!