Have craving, will travel.

Trust me. Nothing screams “Labor Day weekend” like a stash of chocolate! So about five minutes after Sam left for work today I jumped into the car — okay, maybe “jump” isn’t entirely accurate; think SHLEPPED instead — with my little insulated cooler (it’s 102° outside) and drove 17 miles to Sugarless DeLite, my #1 favorite craving store in Richardson. It’s part candy store, part bakery and 100% sugar-free. A diabetic’s dream come true.

I actually exhibited some self-control, restraining myself to a quarter-pound of dark chocolate orange peel thingies, a few oozy dark chocolate cherry cordials and — best of all — two slabs of their unforgettable CHEESECAKE BROWNIES.

Cheesecake brownies might be the most wonderful food ever invented that’s not Chinese. These are decadent 2" x 4" slices, exceptionally rich and dense, unbelievably fattening and (thank God) sugar-free. I’m going to whack both slabs into small pieces and begin eating them in teeny sections with a quart of nonfat milk beginning at 8 p.m. tonight. Seriously.

In closing, please allow me to mention yet another glaring example that Texas is a whole ’nother country and extremely out of touch with the rest of the United States, where normal people are concerned about the sagging economy, recession, the lack of new jobs and civil war in Libya. Here in Dallas, however, our local newspaper’s website offers these three top stories today:

“Mayor Thinks Dallas Must Help Get SMU Into Big 12”
“Dallas Stars Should Change Their Uniforms to Red, White and Blue”
“George W. Bush Predicts SMU’s Win In Sunday’s Opener”

We definitely have our priorities straight now. Thank you for reading this. It’s time for dinner.