An imagination gone wild

So I have spent the better part of this morning fantasizing on two ideas that I can't get out of my head and I want you to let me know which idea you think is better.

Idea number one:
Blogger Weight Loss Bet. This is how it would work: We would have a bet going with anyone who wanted to participate to see who could lose the most weight between Thanksgiving and New Years. The entrance fee would only be $1 but the pot would be as big as the number of people who joined. So, if 50 people wanted to join the prize money would be $50. So not only would there be a bigger incentive to loose more weight, but also a bigger incentive to pass the word on to your friends to join in on the bet. I would probably have a new blog where everyone would go for the rules and to "sign up." It would have to be on an honor system, like you would weigh yourself on your own bathroom scale at the beginning and ending and post your weights on the new blog. There is the issue of the $1, like would you have to pay me to start out with like to my paypal account and then I pay the winner at the end, or would everyone just hold on to their dollar and wait till the end and send their dollar to the winner? And I don;t know if this kind of thing is legal.

Idea number two
Chocolate tasting party. This one is just a fantasy. My idea is that I would invite a ton of people to my house (which leads to the first problem--having a small house). It would be like a potluck, bring your own chocolate. But everyone would try to bring fancy exotic chocolate and we would have it set up on fancy trays with labels and everyone could sample all different kinds of chocolate. The other part of this scenario is that most people I know have kids, and I just can't get my head around kids and entertaining at the same time. This is where a huge house would come in handy, like with an awesome basement where we could send all the kids and hire some babysitters to entertain them. One other issue, is I can't figure out what the perfect beverage would be to cleanse the pallet in between tastings. For me milk goes well with chocolate, but not everyone is a milk lover. Water seems plain, hot chocolate--overkill, and anything fruity seems contradictory to chocolate.

So, let me know which you think is the better idea. One the one end of the spectrum, a blogger weight loss bet, and on the other a chocolate tasting party.

Today I am grateful for imagination. Right now Ariel (7) Adriana (5) and Annika (3) are pretending that Annika is the queen of Pottyland. Because she went pee pee on the potty. They are happy to be her royal subjects and
are giving her the royal treatment.

Adriana is interviewing Her Majesty to discover all her favorite things.
Ariel is giving her a royal hairdo (notice the throne she is sitting in). I don't know why whenever the girls are playing pretend, the fanciest thing to do is run around in your undershirt. Maybe it is because I don't allow them to wear sleeveless shirts so when they are pretending they think that is more fancy. Now they are planning a royal parade.