"Where is the Chocolate?" by YourEnchantedGardener Blog entry

Blog: Plant Your Dream!
by YourEnchantedGardener

"Where is the Chocolate?"

Cute Story...
Where is the Chocolate?

Date: 8/10/2005 12:26:07 AM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 5812 times

The Opening Ceremony of the Feng Shui Conference
was marvelous, some of my best work kicking off a conference.

I surprised myself.

I went to bed the night before without a clue what
I would be saying the next morning.

Then,following the Opening Ceremony,
I had the kickoff of the three "Enchanted Gardener's
Lunches between 1-2:30 PM. After this, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
the "Plant Your Dream Class." This was a lot of activity all in one day.
I was dragging.

In the opening Ceremony of the Feng Shui Conference
one of the assignments was getting the conference attendees
to support the lunches. The tickets were $35.00 each.

I underscored the importance of the lunches being a success.
The Organic lunches simple had to be a success.
This was a landmark for history,
organic and biodynamic food were coming into this Hilton San Diego
Resort for the first time.

I also let everyone know that I had done my best.
Not all the foods were organically grown in each meal.

I also said, we would be having some desserts
including CHOCOLATE MOUSSE.

Then I lead everyone in reciting after me the
"World Famous No Calorie Poem" that I brought out
for this occasion.

I told them that if they said these words nothing that they
ate would count toward calories!!!

I said, "There is one person in this room who is
thinking that they are not going to go to the lunches. They
are really going to be missing one of the highlights of the conference."

Ticket sales soared. We had a marvelous turnout.

The first meal passed. There was no chocolate.

The women started to complain, at least six of them.

"Where is the Chocolate?" They wanted to know.

She said, "Chocolate is like making Love to a woman."
I felt I had really blundered in promising, but not coming through
with the chocolate.
She was really bothered and deeply disappointed.

Then the second mealcame and went.
No chocolate. The choir rose up.
"Where is the chocolate?"

There was one more lunch to go.
The dessert was Sorbet.

Your Enchanted Gardener,
The World's Greatest Lover, was about to go down in flames.

I truly did not know what had happened to the chocolate
and this was the third of the three lunches.

The Women were in uproar.
The great Goddess was up in arms.
I was quickly loosing my standing
as the darling of the conference.

"Our cute and adorable EG is weak on keeping his word.
He does not produce what he says.
He is not to be trusted."-- All this was going through my head...
intense disappointment was rampant in the Qi of the Conference
and in the choir of women.

I had to save my reputation. Luckily I was up to the occasion.

I had already raised more than between $2000.00 and $3000.00
to supplement the lunches with funds from Sponsors who were helping
to supplement the numbr of organic foods in our meals.

The original estimate alone in the chicken order was $2200.00
for the "Wright Poultry happily ever after, antibiotic free, hormone free,
range free, well Roostered Chickens."

http://www.wrightsfoods.com/index.html

http://www.wrightsfoods.com/index.html

I sprang into action.

We SIMPLY had to have a chocolate Sponsor.

Someone would have to go out to Whole Foods Market
and get some top-of-the-line Chocolate, no ifs, ands, or butts.

Makeda Dread,a dear old friend, and one of our Media Sponsors
at the Conference, was going
to leave for the afternoon. She had promised to help me
set up the EG Installation.

I asked her to go out and get some chocolate.

"I don't eat chocolate!" She said.

I was a bit pushy.

"You simple have to get some chocolate!"
I said.

Then I started to work the room.

Shelly Whizen, a philanthropic spirit, opened up her wallet
and pulled out seven bucks.

Then, I went to the International Feng Shui Guild (IFSG)table.

I presented the predicament. Anne Mansfield, the President of
IFSG turned to others on her board of directors. Lynn Ashcroft with a background in finance, said, that they should match others contribution.

Anne said, "Was $10.00 enough to be a chocolate Sponsor???"
of course I said.

Then, a lovely lady rose to the occasion, and stood above the crowd.

"I will be the Chocolate Sponsor!!!! Here is $100.00.!!!"

It was Evana Maggiore, President of Fashion Feng Shui
who came to the rescue of the Chocolate loving
women of the world:

http://www.fashionfengshui.com/learn/learn_intro.htm

She gave me her card.
We all acknowledged her!!! The ladies were happy!!
Everyone gave Evana a loud round of well deserved applause!!!

Let them eat chocoate had won over and the day had been saved.

i took a photo of Makeda with Evana.

Then Evana went off across the grass to withdraw $100.00 in cash
from the ATM. This was a real sister coming to the rescue of all
her other sisters, who had their chocolate hormones raging.

About 15 minutes later she returned.

Raves rang out among the Queendom of Feng Shui Women.
The day had been saved!!!!!

Makeda, the non-chocolate eater, who is the DJ of Makossa Radio 91x San Diego,
look on the assignment to go to Whole Foods. In our many years together,
I had not known her to be totally a timely person.
This was the ultimate test.

She had promised to return for the Closing Ceremony camera in hand
and Chocolate in the bag--$100.00 worth.

She left with her entourage on this mission of mercy.

I was really counting on her to video this Closing Ceremony
later that evening.

She did show up, chocolate in bag, but Jesse, her camera
man, was having a bad hair day. He decided to stay home
in a mood, and so there was no camera.

Chocolate Yes, camera no?
Now I was sad and disappointed but I could not allow myself
to be too down...It was Showtime!!!!

At one point in the ceremony I announced we would be eating chocolate.
Each person had to feed the other.

This was a Classic Closing Ceremony, a real hoot.
The chocolate eating was one of the highlights.
We also had a 100-woman puppy pile meltdown, men included,
and a Choir of women reciting in unison "My Goddess Prayer for You,"
one of the Seven Love Cures.

The next day, Monday , there was one more lunch. IT was not one of the
three organic lunches.

I went anyway. It was a very, very small crowd.

Friend Manu Butterworth of the Golden Gate School of Feng Shui
was bummed out because he told me that Roger Green, the organizer, was being
charged for 50 uneaten lunches to meet the contract for Monday.

Amazingly the dessert on Monday was--
you, guessed it , the missing CHOCOLATE MOUSSE!!!!!

I realized that this dessert had been scheduled for Sunday, but I had
switched the Sunday and Monday menues because I wanted to use
the Basmati Organic Rice from Goldmine Natural Food Company
that was originally part of the Monday lunch.

I had forgotten
that the Menu for Sunday and Monday and been reversed.

I asked the server to bring all the extra chocolates to the main
vendor area, but lo and behold...the small group of Monday
Luncheoneers had eating all but two of the Mousse's!!!

These two were transported to the Vendor area where they sat on my desk
in the Enchanted Garden Altar area.
The flowing woman juices were nearly palpable as numbers of
women lurked around my desk awaiting some invite to bite and
indulge in relations with the dark, moist, fragrant, gourmet
delight.

Libby, one of my favorite Goddesees of the event,
was in deep unrequited yearning. I manipulated her hormones, requesting that
she patiently wait and offer help to Steven Spangler who was loading
up his tropical trees before we would do a photo shoot of her
fulfilling her bodily desires for a slice of pie.

We did a photo of of the missing mousse
so all could enjoy Chef Hermann's dessert.
via the internet. Libby was going out of her mind
as I called for patience.

Finally, she sat on the edge of the EG Mobile
as the cool air of early evening
crossed through the Hilton San Diego Resort.

Eyes reeling in Goddess anticipation, her fingers
took the place of a fork. Her mouth opened. Her tongue
lunged and mounted bites of dark dessert.
Libby, our archetypal Chocolate eater,consummated her
desires for all the women
of the Sixth International Feng Shui Conference.

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To help support Enchanted Garden Activities
at the Feng Shui Conference, please visit
http://www.lesliegoldman.com/Feng_Shui_Conferences/id52.htm
You are invited to see Libby and other pictorial
images of the Goddesses of Feng Shu
including an intimate closeup of Chef Hermann Schaefer's
Chocolate mousse.

___
Evana Maggiore, an Enchanted Garden Club Member
and the woman who rescued us from having "No Chocolate!"
at the recent Feng Shui Conference, has a wonderful
web site addressing the subject of apparel and how it can be used
to enhance your life.

This is from her feng Shui Quiz:

QUESTION:

Are you Conservative, nurturing and/or a homebody?

What kind of "fashion" will enhance and support this?

http://www.fashionfengshui.com/tipstrends/tipstrends_quiz.htm