chocolate overdose

i never thought id say that i have had too much chocolate, but im thisclose to exploding with delicious cocoa mass and milk solids. I had my introduction to chocolate class tonight and it was a lot of fun. The main thing that we learned was how to temper chocolate, which is kind of like getting the chocolate to the right consistency so you can dip things into it or make bars and barks etc. i made a bunch of chocolate dipped strawberries and barks. They were so good, we still have some barks left with coconut and cranberries, caramel bits, and rice krispies. i ate a couple of the strawberries and sent the rest with al to work and apparently everyone really liked them. I forgot to take pictures of everything i made but lets pretend they looked like this...

they kind of did, i made some drizzle on them. but i used milk and dark chocolate, not that white crap. The truffle class is full until january but i plan on taking that one as well, and then there is a sugars class that deals with brittles and toffee and caramel etc. and theres also a molds and decorating class. i think they are all in jan/feb. so is that cake decorating course. im going to get so fat.

yesterday my mom came up for a visit, it was fun. We went for coffee, and then hung out at home for a bit. We headed out to college street and shopped around bought some homemade pesto, some treats for al and soup for me. Went to american apparel and mom bought me the cutest hot pink dress and i bought b&w polkadot leggings to go with it. I also think it will look cute over top of some ripped up jeans. i dont know how to put rips in my jeans though. anyone?
we at lunch at bar italia and holy crap in a hat it was good. We had a gorgonzola mushroom crustini appetizer and we both had a steak sandwich with portabello mushrooms, red onions and garlic mayo. so good. afterwards we went to the eatons center to get a hand mixer but they were too expensive. so we got some xmas ornaments instead. dad got an awesome wrath of khan ornament, mom got an i love lucy one and i got a mother daughter mitten set. then my leg felt like it was made of cement and i hurt a whole lot so we came home to order dinner. al came home for dinner too which was nice. he also drove my mom to the terminal which was nice. he also drove her back to my apartment after realizing she read the schedule wrong and her bus wasnt untill 11. oh mommy. it was her first time, the next time will go off without a hitch.
didnt we look nice for our day out?





So today al and i took a walk to starbucks through graffiti alley (which was part of the resurface project). He got some great pictures and an especially great one of us kissing. i know some of you are like ew puke but whatever i like the picture.





so tomorrow is halloween and its the first year of my whole life where i havent celebrated at all. well there was matts bday, but there was no magic hill, no canadas wonderland, and i cant even hand out candy or do anything tomorrow because of my jewelry class. which im excited to go to but how will i make things halloweeny? i was going to bring in chocolate, but i eat candy everyday so its not special. maybe ill bake tomorrow and bring that in. and ill get home at like 930 and then itll be too late to do anything. :(
oh and ill leave you with this. Not only is my face super puffy, but im growing hair. yup, a beard. al pointed it out and i saw it in the bathroom today. so big cheeks, plus fur. what does that mean? it means im turning into eleanor chipette.
Shes the blonde one, obviously.