I’ve been invited out to a friends house for Thanksgiving this year.  I’m very grateful for the invitation; I’ve had a hectic autumn and it looks like a hectic winter is approaching, so not having to clean and cook and entertain at my house this year is a blessing!  The only drawback is that I won’t have as much leftover turkey as I like to have for leftover meals.  So I guess I’ll be buying a turkey breast anyway and cooking it up here at home so we can have leftover turkey no matter what.  I’ll be making a cranberry-orange-apple relish dish to take with me to the dinner to share with the other guests.  It’s a recipe I’ve had for about four years now, and I like it a lot.  I hope the other guests will like it too!

One of my favorite treats is lemon flavored cookies.  In fact, I love lemon pie, lemon cake, lemon just about anything!  I’ve been having a hard time finding my favorite lemon flavored cookies at the store lately.  It’s very frustrating to have a favorite food and then suddenly not be able to find it anymore!  My favorite lemon cookies are sandwich cookies that are plain shortbread cookies on the outside with a lemon flavored cream filling.  There are other lemon flavored cookies on the market, but those are my favorite. 

For about the past three or four months the store was selling them on the endcaps of the aisle, and now the endcap has something different on it.  Looking in the regular cookie aisle, I can’t find them anywhere.  So I had to settle for lemon flavored wafer cookies, which are good, but not as good as the lemon sandwich cookies.  I suspect that it will be a while (probably next summer) before my favorites reappear!  It’s probably a seasonal item.

I was amazed at how many people came knocking at our door today to encourage us to go vote (of course for THEIR candidate) and how many people came knocking at our door, offering us a ride to the polls, and how many phone calls we got today with the same objectives in mind.  I am so very glad that the polls are now closed and the door knocking and phone calls have stopped.  I voted today, and I hope you did too!  Now we wait to see who the winner is.  I hope that the results will be met with good sportsmanship and dignity by the candidates and the voters alike.

We’re going to a Halloween costume party this Friday and I’ve finally got my costume all ready to go.  I decided to make my own costume this year, just for the fun of it.  I decided to dress like an angel and managed to find some nice angel wings and a halo at the costume store.  I bought a very pretty white nightgown for the angel gown, figuring that I can actually wear it as a nightgown later.  (Yeah, I’m practical like that!) My boyfriend is dressing up like a devil; we are representing ourselves as “Heaven and Hades.”

I’m really looking forward to the party - it’s been a long time since I’ve been to a costume party, and I really enjoy them a lot!  I hope we win the best couples costumes prize!

One of my favorite products in the world is the Hershey’s Good Night Kisses Hot Chocolate mix.  It is 99% caffeine free, and I like to drink it at night before bedtime.  It is sweet and soothing and I believe that it helps me to sleep because I mix it up with milk instead of water.  After all, the old folk wisdom is that a warm glass of milk will help you sleep at night seems to be true for me, and the fact that the Hot Chocolate is 99% caffeine free I don’t worry about the caffeine keeping me awake.

The problem that I have with the product is that often times the grocery store that I buy it from is out of stock for weeks at a time.  When I do find it on the shelves I usually buy three or four boxes.  But I ran out of it two weeks ago and the store hasn’t had it on the shelves the last three times I’ve gone shopping!  So I guess the next time I find it on the shelves I’ll buy every single box they have!