sugar

if ya know me, ya know i lumme my sugar. especially in the form of seasonal candy. right now is an unusually long stretch between valentine's day and easter, so the stores have been stocked with jelly beans for almost a month already, with 6 WEEKS still to go until easter! jackpot. we all shoulda invested in Peeps or something this year. anyway, back to me. so, jelly beans are my thing. they're the perfect texture, you're supposed to chew 'em (unlike hard candies, which are not meant to be chewed, but i can't help myself...), and the flavor options are endless (especially if you're at a Jelly Belly vendor). i love Jelly Bellys, but i love straight up, CVS-brand, Easter-style, pectin Jelly Beans. they're available all year long now--the standard jelly bean. but then. oh then....

before the sun can even rise on february 15th, the shelves are suddenly stripped of conversation hearts and any sign of cupid, and are swiftly filled with the most colorful bags upon bags of seasonal-only jelly beans. get this: starburst jelly beans! yeah! and jolly rancher. no joke!! and lifesavers!! oh, and smuckers (but they're hard to find). there are others that are all worth trying, but my hands-down favorite is: SweetTTarts jelly beans. i've been known to eat an entire bag. by myself. in an embarrassingly small period of time...like, sigh...i had to hold myself back so i'd have some for the movie the other night b/c i ate so many of them during the damn previews alone. and this was right after a huge meal. it's a problem. a huge problem. always has been, but now it is worse. and the suffering is prolonged because of this crazy 2 month span between valentine's day and easter.

this problem might not be a joke, though, because i clearly eat a ridiculous amount of sugar, but i have an otherwise really healthy diet. so....today i had a doctor's appt. they had me drink some red stuff, wait around for an hour, and then took my blood to check for gestational diabetes. well, CRAP! a girl's gotta have her sugar. but now they're gonna think i'm trying to kill my baby--it's blood probably runs thick with sugar. then again, it's heart beat is damn strong. SUGAR!

help me stop. easter come soon!!!! then i go back to Good n Plenty, and that's better. or, at least, the boxes are smaller....

i'll let you know if the doctor comes back and tells me i'm giving birth to a jelly bean--a black licorice jelly bean. (i might have some 'splainin' ta do....)