Monica, Ashley & Melanie are together again in the Podcast Lounge enjoying Caramel Apple Cider Mimosas, preparing for all the Thanksgiving food and the upcoming holiday movie season. Melanie finally has Monica hooked on Hallmark movies, Ashley shares the rules for making a good Hallmark movie and Melanie tries to stump them by playing Guess the Fake Hallmark Movie by the plot synopsis. Monica discloses that she has a haunting in her home! This and much more!

Cocktail of the Day:

Caramel Apple Cider Mimosas - rim a champagne glass with caramel and dip in cinnamon sugar. Fill glass half and half with apple cider and champagne and CHEERS!

This week our frequent guest, Karyn, joins Monica and Melanie in the Podcast Lounge to chat about our recent trip to the theater to watch A Star is Born, we also play a game and the competition is on! Come on in and join us for some hilarious happy hour banter, we saved a seat at the bar for you!

Cocktail of the day:

Razz-Ma-Tazzy-Jazzy Cooler: fresh raspberries muddled in a tall cooler glass with fresh squeezed lime and a splash of concentrated cranberry juice, fill with ice and club soda - add raspberry vodka if you are not teaching dance or working out after.

An exciting happy hour in the Podcast Lounge this week as we welcome a couple of special guests! Jenn Carpenter is a local Author and Founder of her own true crime and paranormal touring company, Demented Mitten Tours! She shares frightening tales from her personal experiences, the local tours and her newest book, Haunted Lansing. We also have our good friend Dani with us as we sip cocktails and share spooky stories along with a lot of laughs!  Come on in and join us, we saved a seat at the bar for you!

Cocktail of the day: Demented Mittentini 

Muddle 6-8 raspberries in the bottom of a martini or highball glass with 1/2 lime squeeze, splash of triple sec and a dash of 100% pure cranberry juice. For martini, mix 2oz vodka, 4 oz raspberry lemonade, 2oz club soda in a shaker with ice and strain into glass. For highball, fill glass with ice and then add remaining ingredients and stir. Garnish with a lime wheel.

BUY Haunted Lansing by Jenn Carpenter on Amazon HERE

We're sharing a mini happy hour today, covering topics such as our latest Netflix obsessions, sneaking out to t.p. the neighbors, Michigan lighthouse trivia and a lighthouse haunting, a crazy story from Disney World and more Girlfriend chat! Come on in and join us, we saved a seat at the bar for you!

Cocktail of the day: Irish Coffee

2oz Jameson Irish Whiskey in 8oz fresh brewed hot or iced coffee

The girls are back in the (New) podcast lounge, kicking off season 2 with a few recaps on "The Road So Far". (nod to Melanie's fellow SPN fangirls!), some of our favorite episodes/themes and what to expect in the upcoming season! Come on in and join us, we saved a seat at the bar for you!

Cocktail:

Always Bring Your Own Sunshine

2oz white rum, 1 oz orange juice, 4 dashes cranberry bitters, splash fresh pineapple juice & club soda, lemon squeeze. Mix it up and pour over ice, garnish with a pineapple.

This week Ashley is out and Monica and Melanie are holding down the fort chatting about terrible neighbors in suburbia, Michigan living, vacations gone bad and so much more! Join us as we crack open some canned wine and dish in the lounge!

The Girlfriends have some sad news to share about a member of the GHH podcast lounge and then the conversation centers on discussion of Ashley & Melanie's favorite, Stephen King, and his great novel and film Pet Sematary. Don't know much about or care for Stephen King? Neither does Monica, you'll fit right in! Join us for Casamigos tequila on the rocks (because George Clooney makes us feel better!) 

F*@k-it-all Tequila on the rocks:

Fill a wine glass with ice, pour in tequila, squeeze a little lime and call it good!

Ashley's back in the lounge with Monica & Melanie, and our special guest, Renee! Cucumber mint martinis were flowing! Along with our usual happy hour fun, we're covering a story that hit close to home 35 years ago. On June 26th, 1983, 16 year old Erik Stirling Cross was murdered in Vicksburg, Michigan. The killers are known, no arrests have been made to this day. We want Justice for Erik Cross! (Story starts at 20:33) 

Cucumber Mint Martinis

Combine 2 slices cucumber, 5 mint leaves, 1/2 fresh squeezed lime and .25oz simple syrup in a shaker and crush with a muddler. Add 3oz vodka and fill with ice. Cover and shake, then strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a cucumber slice. Multiply as needed.

Ashley is out filming her movie so Monica, Melanie and Karyn are drinking champagne in the Podcast Lounge re-capping the Royal Wedding, taking a Royal (pain-in-the-ass) quiz, Mother's Day chat, neighbor window peeping, the joys and pains of mothering (and teaching your kids to swear), food - of course, fangirling or not, Monica's facial reactions, we read an email from a Girlfriend listener and so much more! Just your usual happy hour chat! Come on in and join us, we saved a seat at the bar for you!

Ashley couldn't make it today, Monica and Melanie are back in the GHH Podcast Lounge doing a little Cinco de Mayo daydrinking & covering whatever topic comes out of the Chat Hat. Shake up a margarita and join in! Yep, Melanie forgot margaritas were the cocktail of the day last time too! 

2oz Hornitos Plata Tequila

1oz Triple Sec

1 freshly squeezed lime

Shake well over ice in a cocktail shaker, pour into a martini glass & enjoy (salted rim and lime garnish to your liking, duplicate as needed)