\nHim: (something completely unrelated to chocolate so I wasn’t listening)
\nMe: that’s nice, but what are we going to do about our chocolate problem?
\nHim: What do you mean we? I don’t have a chocolate problem
\nMe: What’s mine is yours and I have a chocolate problem
\nHim: (laughs and returns to playing Grand Theft Auto – Why did I ever buy him that game?)
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<\/a><\/p>\nHow is it possible that we have no chocolate in the house?<\/p>\n
Zip<\/p>\n
Zilch<\/p>\n
None<\/p>\n
*pout*<\/p>\n
I’m off to go find chocolate.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
My husband received a letter from UW today stating that he’s been accepted as a transfer student into the Near Eastern Studies program (I should specify that I mean the University of Washington rather than the University of Wisconsin \/ Waterloo \/ Wurzburg \/ Wyoming \/ Wales \/ Warwick \/ Westminster \/ Wollongong) I’m so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[138,697,1041],"tags":[25,646,496,702,13,59],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting-living-well","category-seattle-living-well","category-life-skills","tag-seattle","tag-chocolate","tag-education-2","tag-marriage-2","tag-mr-h","tag-uw","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?fit=640%2C457","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=150%2C150",150,150,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?fit=640%2C457",640,457,false]},"categories_names":{"138":{"name":"Parenting & Family","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/parenting-living-well\/"},"697":{"name":"Seattle","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/life-skills\/adventure-living-well\/seattle-living-well\/"},"1041":{"name":"Tools & Skills for Living","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/category\/life-skills\/"}},"tags_names":{"25":{"name":"Awesome in Seattle","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/seattle\/"},"646":{"name":"chocolate","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/chocolate\/"},"496":{"name":"education","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/education-2\/"},"702":{"name":"marriage","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/marriage-2\/"},"13":{"name":"The Husband","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/mr-h\/"},"59":{"name":"uw","link":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/tag\/uw\/"}},"comments_number":0,"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=150%2C150",150,150,true],"cvmm-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=300%2C300",300,300,true],"cvmm-medium-plus":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=305%2C207",305,207,true],"cvmm-portrait":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=400%2C457",400,457,true],"cvmm-medium-square":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=600%2C457",600,457,true],"cvmm-large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=640%2C457",640,457,true],"cvmm-small":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?resize=130%2C95",130,95,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bird-2.png?fit=640%2C457",640,457,false]},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fDeG-1V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4,"url":"http:\/\/coffeejitters.net\/blog\/2004\/01\/01\/best-of-coffeejitters\/","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":0},"title":"Best of CoffeeJitters","author":"Judy Schwartz Haley","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"sometimes you just have to drop everything and watch the sunset - 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