First things first–I got re-admitted to the class that I was so rudely dropped from. Apparently you don’t have to have the stupid orientation thing in order to take a distance learning class. I think this whole experience just made me age almost another year. At this rate, I’ll be well on my way to 40 by the end of the semester.
On another front, I have noticed that, disturbingly, I have started to crave candy, specifically chocolate on an almost daily basis ever since I had The Baby. I’m usually not a candy person and really not a chocolate person at all. Yeah, I’m a little weird–usually if I’m craving something it is either going to be really sour or really salty or a little of both. It wasn’t until I got pregnant that I started craving really sour candy–Sour Patch Kids and Sour Tangerine Altoids were about all I ate (along with an obscene amount of saltine crackers) for six weeks while the morning sickness was at its very worst because they seemed to help make the nausea just a little bit better. The sour candy craving kept on througout my pregnancy and I think I ended up eating more candy in almost 10 months time than I had for the past three years combined. I fully expected the candy thing to go away after the baby was actually born…but then the chocolate urge started. I don’t know if it is some strange offshoot of exclusively nursing (ha ha…makes it sound like some special club…the breast friends club…for memboobs only…membership dues a nipple apiece…okay maybe I’m the only one laughing here) the baby or what, but I do know that the urge to eat chocolate really needs to go away and soon! Other than the fact that I really don’t even enjoy the chocolate while I’m stuffing my face with it (how weird is that to crave something but then hate it while I’m satisfying the craving?) I don’t think that the daily chocolate fix is going to help my losing my final 15 pounds to get my weight exactly where I want it. Maybe I just have a brain tumor and instead of having some random smell/sound/optical thing, this is how it is manifesting itself?