Here's a Short History Lesson on Chocolate, which i feel like having. :)

Chocolate’s Roots in Ancient Mesoamerica
We tend to think of chocolate as a sweet candy created during modern times. But actually, chocolate dates back to the ancient peoples of Mesoamerica who drank chocolate as a bitter beverage.

For these people, chocolate wasn’t just a favorite food—it also played an important role in their religious and social lives.

The ancient Maya grew cacao and made it into a beverage.
The first people clearly known to have discovered the secret of cacao were the Classic Period Maya (250-900 C.E. [A.D.]). The Maya and their ancestors in Mesoamerica took the tree from the rainforest and grew it in their own backyards, where they harvested, fermented, roasted, and ground the seeds into a paste.

When mixed with water, chile peppers, cornmeal, and other ingredients, this paste made a frothy, spicy chocolate drink.

The Aztecs adopted cacao.
By 1400, the Aztec empire dominated a sizeable segment of Mesoamerica. The Aztecs traded with Maya and other peoples for cacao and often required that citizens and conquered peoples pay their tribute in cacao seeds—a form of Aztec money.

Like the earlier Maya, the Aztecs also consumed their bitter chocolate drink seasoned with spices—sugar was an agricultural product unavailable to the ancient Mesoamericans.

Drinking chocolate was an important part of Maya and Aztec life.
Many people in Classic Period Maya society could drink chocolate at least on occasion, although it was a particularly favored beverage for royalty. But in Aztec society, primarily rulers, priests, decorated soldiers, and honored merchants could partake of this sacred brew.

Chocolate also played a special role in both Maya and Aztec royal and religious events. Priests presented cacao seeds as offerings to the gods and served chocolate drinks during sacred ceremonies.

Before chocolate was a sweet candy, it was a spicy drink. Some of the earliest known chocolate drinkers were the ancient Maya and Aztecs of Mesoamerica.

They ground cacao seeds into a paste that, when mixed with water, made a frothy, rather bitter beverage. Drinking chocolate was an important part of life for the Classic Period Maya and the Aztecs.

Until the 1500s, no one in Europe knew anything at all about the delicious drink that would later become a huge hit worldwide. Spain’s search for a route to riches led its explorers to the Americas and introduced them to chocolate’s delicious flavor.

Eventually, the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs made it possible to import chocolate back home, where it quickly became a court favorite. And within 100 years, the love of chocolate spread throughout the rest of Europe.

For hundreds of years, the chocolate-making process remained relatively unaltered. But by the mid 1700s, the blossoming Industrial Revolution saw the emergence of innovations that changed the future of chocolate.

A steady stream of new inventions and advertising helped set the stage for solid chocolate candy to become the globally favored sweet it is today.

I dont know why people like those darker layouts...
i look at mine, and i feel stupid.
everyone is so dark and mature and i have... bunnies. purpleish pink at that.
but i like them... those dark layouts scare me.
i am a loser.

-Lizzy

"It's the first time, i've ever felt like this...

like, as if my heart flies to him whenever he comes even NEAR me."

and that's how my diary started. with those lines. im looking through it's pages, there pretty old. dated since '02. and to tell you the truth... im kinda ashamed. the pages jump back and forth between this guy or the other, and the first taking most of the notebook, and then, i find reference to a girl, and she becomes center stage. it's so odd, and i didnt write in it so frequently either. some memories are better left to be forgotten, i guess.
it's also kind of funny, what i have in it. pictures, poems, photographs, fairy dust... lol, to name a few. im so weird.
but anyways, have any of you ever had in your possession haunted jewerly? the scariest thing happened to me yesterday. (that too should be forgotten.) but get this, it was the day, when i left one of my spirit vessels to charge. haha, that'll teach me. im never leaving him behind again.
speaking about spirits, at work we have one. uh-huh, and he's been getting stronger lately. the first time we heard of him, was when the cleaning lady was working, and she heard two men talking, the thing is, she works by herself in the wee hours of the morning. as she came up to see if someone had broken in, (and believe me, she's a feisty one!) she didnt see anyone, but kept hearing the voices. from that same area, (later on) books would fall, lol, especially, when brian, my coworker displeased him/them. something happened to me as well. as i was talking to someone, my bracelet, literary flew off my hand. and believe me, i dont go around waving my hands around. it went pretty far too! XD
but yesterday, was the best thing by far! ok, we turned everything thing of on monday, no one came in on tuesday, and on wed. morning, they found the stove turned on to it's maximum. and that's not an easy stove to turn on, you need to force the dial on first, and then turn it with all your strenght, (it's old, i know.) but that's still kinda dangerous if you think about it. what if someone had left their plate or something? i would be out of a job. TT.TT
anyways, i wrote too much. but i'll keep you updated!

-Lizzy

Apparently im (and i quote!) 'Hellbound'.

hee, the thought of it makes me laughs somewhat. and so i responded as such: '(*laughs*) then i might as well enjoy all my time here, right? ;P '

in all honesty, i dont care. i know i'll be reborn again anew, so im not worried. actually, since i was little i always believed that i would die when i reached the age of 21. hmmm... and sometimes i wonder about that. did i die at such a young age in my past life? and if so, why am i repeating it again? am i bound to a cycle i cant escape from? well, it doesnt matter.

anyways, just had to get that out of the way.

please. ignore me. ;)

though, i do sometimes wonder...

-Lizzy

I dont have much time, i have to go to work in an hour and i have to get ready. but today, for some odd reason of life, i felt the needed to write.
what about, i have no clue. but if the fates prompt me to write, then write i shall.
i just got my schedule for next semester ready. it's an okay schedule. the highlights being the stick fighting and, when. that it plays perfectly with my work schedule. i hope i can stick with it though. the stick fighting i mean. cause... what if there all a bunch of boys and like no girls? not that that matters to me. cause i can jack all those foos up in a heartbeat if they just even try to mess with me. but...
ah, im only causing myself unneccersary stress.
hmmm...
im listening to the weather right now. apparently were going to have a huge snowstorm this afternoon. like huge. people are already stocking up on food items. i dont think it can be that bad. and if it was. i'll probaly still have to go to school. for another final im having.
'it's almost over, it's almost over.' i find myself repeating.
ah, that reminds me. i heard from my one friend again. she seems to be happy where she is. im glad. she hated our high school so much. i hope only for happiness for her. if she comes to buffalo... what should i do? our plans usually failed whenever we had planned something in the past. but, well. i hope they wont this time.
ok. now it's time for me to go. i typed all this up in 4 minutes. not bad, huh? just look at what i can do when i put my mind into it. lol.
oh, and im still not liking this new cyworld. hopefully it'll be what it is, a beta version, and change back to what it was. or even better. upgrade to something like korea. i somehow feel it was really stereotypical of them to have changed it to look like facebook, in order to 'westernize' it. if people wanted facebook, they would have joined it. we came here for something exotic, right?

-Lizzy