Grandma's chocolate cake

When I was little, my Grandma Leardini made this Chocolate Cherry Cake and I'm telling you it was the best cake I've ever had. It was so moist. Well, since then, my mom has passed the recipe on to me and I love making it. So, tonight I made it in the "Ghostie" pan that I bought at a garage sale several months ago.

A garage sale is always a mixed bag. On this occasion, I went to a neighborhood garage sale, parked and walked from house to house. By the time I was finished, I looked funny as heck. I was carrying a halloween decoration, several nik naks and a framed poster. Here's what the Halloween decoration looks like: Sammie is checking it out like, what the heck....

Anyway, one of the things that I bought was the "Ghostie" pan for like a dollar. That has to be the deal of the day. On a side note, you know you're getting old when you're bragging about how much you paid for a cake pan. But to put a bow on this story, that was the pan that I used to bake Grandma's cake tonight. it looks pretty cool, but you'd never guess that the cake is in the shape of a ghost. It just looks like a weird wave or something.

Work seems to be going ok. My goal over the next several weeks is to be more positive. I think that I'm falling into a rut of looking at the down side of things. There is plenty to be excited about, so I need to keep my spirits high. Nichole and I talked about that today. She is good at motivating me to look at things on a positive note but lately she hasn't been feeling too good. Honestly, I was like death warmed over on Monday. Shawn had the day off since he was traveling for a meeting on Sunday. He invited me to lunch and I'm sure that he was like, what the heck happened to you when he saw what I looked like.

Saturday will be a SBU alumni event at Charlotte Catholic High School. Nichole and Shawn are coming with us, which should be pretty cool. This will be my first alumni event so we'll see how it goes. Shawn and Nichole will be coming with us, so I hope that it's a lot of fun. After that we're going to make dinner and watch a movie and play games. It should be a pretty effective.