4 November So last night after I got home from work I went straight to the supermarket, because I have had the most intense longing for hot chocolate for days and days. And not just any hot chocolate, not the revolting kind that comes out of a machine, not the nasty kind that you add hot water to, not even the pretty decent kind that I got at the dreaded Starbucks the other day. Nope, what I want is the kind that I make, not because it's anything special, it's just exactly the way that I like it. Skim milk, a teaspoon of chocolate powder (so that it's not too chocolate-y), homemade whipped cream (because honestly, it takes just as long to take the little plastic thing off of the canned kind as it does to make your own)--it's been floating across my taste buds for a week and I couldn't stand n'more. So I trundled to the store, making mental notes to find my gloves and scarf and earmuffs from wherever I put them last year, and went on the great hot chocolate search. I went to the coffee-tea-cocoa aisle (ever notice how the aisle signs sometimes make whole new items? My personal favourites at my supermarket are "Kosher Macaroni Oil" and "Chinese Gravy Pickles".) and looked for my brand. I couldn't remember the name, but it's a yellow can with a picture of a boy and you had to pry off the lid and it was just perfect, but 'twas not to be found! The whole thing was terribly upsetting. I had to get Nestles Quik instead, but I have never had it and don't know whether it's good enough. Still haven't, even though I bought it, as I want to try to find the proper stuff in the city today. I also wanted to get some fudge-fixin's, as I have been re-reading the Betsy-Tacy books, and they make fudge in just about every chapter in those books (it's what they did in this country before TV) so I'm jonesing hard. Fudge is about the easiest thing in the world to make, powdered sugar, cocoa, milk, vanilla, salt, butter and nuts--any monkey can make it! If they sell cocoa at their supermarket. It wasn't my day for purchasing powdered chocolate items, as I couldn't find the unsweetened cooking cocoa anywhere! I did, however, find a "Tollhouse Fudge Mix", which proclaimed on the box "Only add sugar, vanilla, salt, butter and nuts!" meaning that the box contained 1/2 cup of cocoa and 1/4 cup of milk? Well, no, it contained chocolate chips, evaporated milk and marshmallows, none of which are in fudge, as far as I'm concerned. So I bought the sugar and nuts and hoped for the best, and I was right, I did have cocoa at home from when I last made my brownie cake this summer. The very last of a lastness, contest-pics-wise. If you want to see all of them, go here, and then let me know, if you like, which one you'd give me the $121,750 first prize for! Today's horoscope: Mechanical items are involved in the financial picture. Repairs are possible. If shopping for a new object, check it out carefully. One year ago today: "But despite our differences, both of our tongues are so far up Al D'Amato's ass you can barely see the soles of our feet!" * Yesterday / Index / This Month / Tomorrow * E-Mail Whole new way of looking at life by: Michael Moore! This page was written by hand. My hand. Only pussies use HTML editors. Last Updated Thurs 4 November 09:53:09 1999