Nik: Alex! We need to make Pina Ghouladas! I found this recipe on Martha Stewart’s site.
Alex: What were you doing on Martha Stewart?
Nik: Looking at stuff.
Alex: No comment.
Nik: What? She has cool recipes and crafts.
(silence)
Nik: I’m being really serious right now.
Alex: Me too.

INGREDIENTS:
FOR THE “BLOOD”
3 tablespoons corn syrup
1/4 teaspoons red food coloring
FOR THE DRINK
20 ounces pineapple juice
1 can (15 ounces) cream of coconut
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 cup orange juice
10 ounces good-quality rum

DIRECTIONS:
Pour the corn syrup in a shallow bowl. Dip a toothpick into the food coloring, and stir a very small amount into the syrup to combine. Hold a glass by the stem, dip rim into the syrup mixture, and turn glass, coating entire rim. Turn the glass upright, allowing mixture to drip down sides. Dip the remaining glasses. Set aside.

Whisk together drink ingredients. Place 2 1/2 cups ice in a blender, and add 1 cup drink mixture. Blend until smooth; add more pineapple juice if mixture is too thick. Repeat with remaining ice and mixture. Carefully pour into prepared glasses; serve.

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Nik: New fringe boots from Elyse Walker.
Alex: Those are the boots I want to wear when I give my future boyfriend a lap dance to American Woman.
Nik: You should hurry. They might be out of style next season.
Alex: Yay, I found a pair in my price range from Steve Madden. Do you like?
Nik: I meant hurry with the boyfriend…
Alex: I have a few fish in the tank.
Nik: Ew.
Alex: Yeah, that grossed me out too.
Nik: What does that even mean?
Alex: I have no idea.

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Nik: I can’t get enough of the Harvest Pumpkin. It’s so gooooood. I crave it.
Alex: Will you make your pumpkin cake soon?
Nik: I love all of their soups. I buy a bunch and keep them in the freezer. They’re perfect for nights when I work really late and don’t feel like pounding a big meal before bed.
Alex: I love pounding before bed.
Nik: I’m seriously addicted. My mouth is watering just talking about it. And they’re super healthy, all natural and vegetarian.
Alex: Bummer, I like meat. Especially sausage.
Nik: Will you just sleep with that guy I told you not to sleep with? I’m trying to have a serious conversation about soup.
(long pause)
Nik: Annnnnd this is why I’m single.

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Alex: I really enjoy lunch time because I get to listen to the writers talk about their favorite shows and other cool things they’ve done lately. Today one of my co-workers was talking about this interactive haunted play called Delusion. It’s supposed to make you feel like you are in a scary movie. Are you a scaredy cat? I am but for some reason I really want to do this. You have to sign a waiver because you run and crawl and people touch you. We have to buy our tickets soon because they’re half sold out already. I’ve never been into this kind of stuff but I’m all game right now. What’s gotten into me!?
Nik: It looks very cool.  I’m not sure I can get down with strangers touching me though.
Alex: C’mon pretend like you’re in college.
Nik: Only my boyfriends touched me.  And even on my drunkest night I never crawled through the woods on my knees.  I did fall in a snow bank once.  And ask a female cop to arrest me.
Alex: Was she hott?
Nik: No, she looked like a dude, but I wanted to be handcuffed.
Alex: Kinky, I like it.
Nik: You would.  Should we go?
Alex: YES!

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Nik:  Perfect with herb roasted pumpkin seeds.

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Nik:  It’s delicious.  That is all.

Cake ingredients:
4 eggs
1 cup oil
2 cups sugar
1 – 15 ounce can pumpkin
* Mix the above ingredients, then add the following:
2 cups flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 tsp. cinnamon
½ tsp. ginger
½ tsp. cloves
½ tsp. nutmeg
* Mix well and pour into a 9 x 13 pan and bake at 350 degrees for 38-40 minutes.
Frosting ingredients:
4 ounces cream cheese
½ stick butter
1 tablespoon milk
1 tsp. vanilla
3 cups powdered sugar
*Beat first four ingredients well and then mix in the powdered sugar.

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Nik:  Alex, if you want to write for TV, you better start watching lots of it. I usually watch the pilot episode of every new show. Some I’ll stick with, most I won’t. Here are a few I plan on checking out and also the shows I already watch:

New: Lucky 7, Sleepy Hollow, Hostages, The Blacklist, The Goldbergs, The Crazy Ones, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Betrayal, Hello Ladies, Masters of Sex, The Paradise, Witches of East End, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, Reign, Dracula, The Originals, The Tomorrow People… I’m pretty sure I’m forgetting some.

Old: Homeland, Revenge, Eastbound and Down, Boardwalk Empire, American Horror Story Coven, Scandal, Parenthood, Modern Family, House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black (on Netflix), Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Girls and even though I hate to fess up to Nashville and Grey’s, who doesn’t love watching fictional car accident aftermath and storm episodes! My DVR is going to explode.

Alex:  I think it’s time I get cable.

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