Quick question--what do YOU do with
your tax refund?
You mean, you DON’T buy a
bunch of European chocolate with it? Isn’t that what tax refunds
are for? Well...shows what I know, I guess.
I know I write about chocolate quite a
bit , but I have to mention it again today. We’ve received our
refund a couple of weeks ago and like every year immediately paid a
visit to a couple of our favorite web sites to stock up on our collection of Galler,
Callebaut, and Cote D’Or. Sure, we’ll be able to buy them in
person in Belgium in a few months, but what are we supposed to do
until then? Go without?
Yeah, I know. One of these days we’ll
turn in to responsible adults. But don’t hold your breath waiting.
Actually, we use a very small
percentage of our tax refund for chocolate. Most of it goes to
mundane things, like car rental or travel insurance and Euros for our
trips, but we always manage to set aside a little for a small taste
of decadent goodness. After all, isn’t this the time of the year
that you need a little something like that? It sometimes seems like
we haven’t seen the sun for several months, and I can’t think of
anything that would serve as good of a remedy for that as would
chocolate.
Well, okay, maybe a trip to Aruba
would. But our tax refund isn’t THAT big!
It’s always a joyous day in our
apartment when the Belgian Shop or the German Shop box arrives, and yesterday was no exception.
Yesterday's shipment from German Shop 24 was greeted with much joy in
the Koski household. We tore open (carefully, mind you) the box and
out popped chocolate from Ritter and Milka and Schoegetten, all
meticulously wrapped in that way that Germans are meticulous about
everything. We now have all of our favorites, plus Loraine has some
espresso bars that are a little too strong for me and I have some
marzipan bars that I first found in Leipzig a few years ago, bars
where the chocolate and marzipan are actually soaked in alcohol,
something we both find quite funny seeing as how I don't drink.
But they taste GREAT!
Also in the packages were two boxes of
cereal, both from Kolln, which would be the German equal to Kelloggs
or to Post. Both Loraine and I had to get a box of perhaps the best
cereal on the planet, Kolln's Schoko-Kirsch Muesli--
This is a cereal with granola, little
chocolate puffy bits, shaved pieces of dark chocolate, and dried
cherries in it. I discovered it one of the first times we stayed in
Germany, and I've always made a point of bringing back a box or two
of it, even if I hafta toss some underwear or an old tube of
toothpaste to make room.
After all, I know what's REALLY
important!
I know a lot of people complain about
having to do their taxes, but when you use part of your refund for goodies like that, you actually
look forward to filing them. Trust me--it helps!!
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