Easy Chocolate Peanut Layer Bars and Performance Indicators

These decadent, simple to make chocolate, peanutty bars are supposed to be travelling around the world in a suitcase to Korea.

From Korea they are supposed to meet my son from China, where they are to be travelling back to Shanghai to be devoured by number one son and his roommates.

Instead they are sitting in my freezer, each individually wrapped in a giant zip lock bag. Not just one pan, but two.

So yes, I now have approximately 48 totally enticing, calorie laden, magic chocolate peanut bars in my freezer. And I just started Weight Watchers…

Blame it on Manservant. Within a matter of hours he canceled his trip to Korea because the person he was supposed to meet wasn’t available.

Of course he already had had Alex book a flight to Korea so they could meet and hug and eat said layer bars.

I spent the weekend buying gifts since this happened so last minute, and then woke up at 5 AM to tell Manservant good bye only to find out his trip was postponed.

So Odie San traveled to Korea anyway, where he met friends and ended up having a good time. But I felt bad!!!

Supposedly Manservant will be flying next week, but this time number one son will know not to book a flight to Korea; instead he will make Manservant meet him in Shanghai.

At least that is the plan. It isn’t like Manservant doesn’t have vacation days to spare. I don’t believe he has taken one all year. I don’t even think he has taken a holiday all year.

Is that despair in my voice? Or anger? He tells me his goal by the end of the year is to achieve balance.

He tells me he has KPI’s to meet in order to keep himself happy and ultimately me!

I don’t care what he calls it, but key performance indicators in my life are pretty sad right now. It seems all I do is bounce around between his schedule and that is getting old.

It means me not having a schedule, because I never know what to expect from his.

Well. This has got to stop! I just did Pilates for the last month and should have signed up for some art classes.

I even started Weight Watchers last week, so at least I have a social outing. Hah! Don’t expect any great changes on this blog though.

One must learn to work around challenges; kind of like working around Manservant…

These Easy Chocolate Peanut Layer Bars are a riff on my 7 Layer Magic Bars. They aren’t quite as sweet, because of the peanut butter, but just as delicious.

Manservant preferred these to my regular ones, but he is a peanut lover. My daughter prefers this pumpkin layered version!