"All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

Last week was a bad week.

My work computer got a virus and it took a week and a half to get fixed, so I spent all of that time without the files I needed to get stuff done and actually accomplish something more than cleaning my desk.  It was horrible.

I dropped my cell phone in a sink full of water, and while just about everything is now fixed on it, the microphone doesn't work, so I can't call out.  A bit of a problem.  I now have a bluetooth earpiece, so I'm officially one of those weirdos who looks like she's talking to herself in public.  It's not a perfect system, but it's cheaper than a new phone, so I'm learning to deal.

Without a phone last week, getting in touch with people to do anything turned out to be absolute chaos.  I had to have other people call the people I needed to get in touch with and have other people give me rides.  It was irritating.

I was possibly going to get a new car, but the deal fell through.  This happened three days before my car, Wall*E, died.  I had to push him into a parking lot.  Urgh.

I tried to print 20 pictures at Walmart, which took me 45 minutes to order, and then what I thought was "next day" printing turned out to be "you have to wait for 6 days, sucker" printing.

So all of that, on top of a whole bunch of little things that went wrong that I won't get into on such a public forum, meant for a ridiculously awful week.

Well, until I found out I get to keep my job for another year!!!  It's been a little chaotic trying to figure it out, and it's been stressing me out for quite some time, so a weight was lifted right off my shoulders when I got that news :)

But anyway, what's the best way to cure a bad mood?  Just about every woman I know will attest to this...

CHOCOLATE!!!

I decided chocolate pie was an absolute must last week, so on Saturday, I whipped up a little diddy that I'm calling "Death by Chocolate Treat Pie."  Sound delicious?  It was.

So my friend Alison makes this dessert called "chocolate treat," and it's basically chocolate cake, but less cake-like and more brownie-like.  It's also smothered in chocolate chips... it's one of the best things I've ever eaten. 

Well, I decided I needed to turn this into a pie somehow.  After brainstorming ways to use cake mix in a pie, I came up with my own solution that was an absolute WIN.

Death by Chocolate Treat Pie is this: Oreo crust, chocolate cheesecake (which I made earlier this year), a layer of chocolate ganache, and topped with chocolate treat, all baked into my springform pan.

Say it with me... nom nom nom!!!

It was incredible.  Not as overwhelmingly rich as I expected it to be, but it was gooey and creamy and chocolate-y... perfectly perfect, basically.  And served with some homemade whipped cream?  Wowza, it's a definite favorite.

Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 

:)

And yes, Death by Chocolate Treat Pie made just about everything better.  Lucy Van Pelt, you were quite right.