too tired to think of a titillating title...

       i gave plasma today for what will hopefully be the second to last time. as a result i'm pretty drained, physically and emotionally, so i'll try to refrain from talking about all of the crazy/scary things going on in my head at the moment. hopefully that will spare me some dignity. i said some. i'm just ready to have friends around again. and i need a gym membership so i can find a little self-confidence again.

       i've mentioned that i've been developing a line of artisan chocolates. so yesterday we ran a test of one of my ganaches. i made a chai ganache, which was pretty much awesome. the test went well, but we still have to refine it some for making it on a large scale. when mike (the owner) tasted it, his eyes got big and he kept saying "this is really good." so today i gave him the report i'd been working on and now he wants us to start making as many as 15 flavors for the line. i gave him a list of flavors i've been working on already, but we still have a few spots to fill. he's going to be ordering what we need, including a couple food-grade airbrushes to paint the chocolates, which i was pretty surprised about but super-stoked. i had included that in the report, but i figured it wouldn't be a step we'd take for a while. but we're going all out. so after all of this, i hope it works! some of the flavors i've been working on include chai, earl grey tea, lavender honey, mayan chocolate, mocha, then of course the old favorites like mint, amaretto, raspberry, etc. i think we're going to start production sometime next week. i'm excited.

       there was something else that i was going to talk about, but now i can't remember what. oh, well. i need to get to bed. another big day tomorrow. later.