#scott's thoughts

Scott stood alone, as of course, glancing around before looking dead ahead himself.

My hot chocolate recipe! It's like the only sweet thing I can make since no baking is involved *laughs*

Ingredients:

4 cups of whatever milk you want (nice, right?)

1/4 cup of sugar (I recommend cane sugar if you've got it)

1 whole cinnamon stick

1/2 whole vanilla bean, scraped OR 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1/4 cup cocoa powder of your choice (Hershey's or Ghirardelli would be my recommendation)

3 & 1/2 ounces semi-sweet chocolate of your choice (NOTE: if you want to use milk chocolate instead of semi-sweet, then just ignore the sugar part of the ingredients)

pinch of salt (kosher salt if you've got it)

whatever you wanna use to top your hot chocolate

Instructions:

Use a sharp knife to chop the chocolate into small pieces, the smaller the better but like it doesn't have to be super fine, ya know? just get them like chocolate chip size or smaller

Add the milk, powder, chocolate, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon stick, and salt to a medium saucepan that's on low heat

Stir regularly! That's an important tip. Use a whisk if you've got one or a spoon if you don't.

Warm and stir until the chocolate has completely melted.

Remove the cinnamon stick from the saucepan and the vanilla bean (if you didn't use extract) and just throw those away.

A little story about me as a kid. Actually, it's sorta a Christmas story and sorta a Halloween story.

I love both holidays very very much. Like they're pretty well tied for first place, but I guess Christmas is in first place by like *almost pinches fingers together* that much.

Anyway, I love both holidays, and I decided when I was like really little, maybe like 5 or 6, that I would combine both holidays into one. How? Simple enough for a little munchkin like me. I would go as the Grinch for Halloween.

I love the 1966 cartoon. To me, that's the best version of the story. It's definitely a tradition for me to watch it every Christmas season. Heck, I can recite the whole cartoon by memory! Songs and all!

And you're in luck, gang. My momma still has a photo of me when I dressed as the Grinch for Halloween. I don't know why it's black and white though. It just is. See below!

SO! I won't be around tonight, but I'll be back tomorrow!

You guys have a great Friday night, and I'll catch you on the flipside!

So looking ahead, my week will be jam packed with obligations that will take up a lot of time. And I mean a lot of time. Don't get me wrong; they're not bad obligations. I'm looking forward to a lot of them. They're just really time consuming.

With that being said, it will be very unlikely I'll be active on here until like Saturday night or Sunday because of all that's going on.

This does not in any way mean I'm leaving tumblr for good! I promise! I really don't want any of you to worry this is the start of like some kind of exodus or something, no way. I love it here; I'm not going anywhere.

Heck, it's killing me to think I won't get to spend time with you guys this week, but that's the way the ball's bouncing right now.

So please please please keep leaving those asks for me in the meantime? Tell me a joke or something from your day or ask me a question about myself or tell me what you think of my blog or whatever the heck you want.

I promise once everything from this week calms down, I'll be back full swing like normal and answer all asks and reply to all the threads that I can remember to reply to lol. Your stuff will not be overlooked. Cross my heart.

Missing you already,

Scott ((and Ant-Mun))