Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate.

It's been hot. 100+ isn't so bad, but when you are baking all day and lack air-conditioning it's hot. Kindra thinks it's hot. She insists several times an hour it is hot. Her continuous reminders help to distract the mind from the heat (that was sarcasm). It's hard to feel clean when one sweats profusely all the day long. But, as in every situation, there is a lesson to be learned here... we just aren't sure of what it is yet.

Yesterday, Kindra decided she was bored with the chocolate krinkle cookies. She's made them the same way for a good two weeks now. That would bore anyone. So she added a flare: she dumped chocolate morsels into the chocolate krinkle cookie dough. Ug. Talk about death by chocolate. If chocolate has addictive properties (as some folks maintain) these double chocolate gems would render a person an addict, no doubt. Addicts are okay, though... as far as Sweet Thing is concerned. We'll take all we can get.

It looks like we have ourselves a fancy coffee machine. Now, all we need is a place to store it for three months until the shop opens. Fun. We got a smashing deal, though, it'll be worth it.

Today was the first day the ham and cheese pan was available at Bikini. Hopefully it found itself in a refrigerator or was sold quickly. Cooked, cured ham doesn't go bad quickly, but all the same, we do not desire to give someone food poisoning. We long to avoid the situation Kindra expressed so eloquently this morning: "Someone's gonna get food poisoning, sue us, and we'll be shut down before we even start up!" Our rosy outlooks keep up our spirits.

Tonight Shawna will concoct one of her famous cakes--the first one to be sold under the Sweet Thing name. From the sound of things it will be quite fancy. But then again, what does Shawna make that isn't fancy? We'll have pictures of it later.

Kindra thinks we should keep a vlog, too. She says a blog doesn't capture the wonderful spontaneity and idiocy of our personalities. Talk about burning people out. Maybe one or two videos here and there would be interesting, but all the time would be out of control. Our random outbursts of song, and witty comments can sometimes be a direct result of sleeplessness. A person whose faculties properly function would be mortified by such inanity. We'll see.