Peppermint Patties are one of my favorite treats (after Starbucks coffee ice cream, of course).

One of my favorite activities is veging out at on Friday nights with a good Netflix movie.

And I never end the day without reading in bed, even if it is only for five minutes.

On Friday, I enjoyed all three.

• I ate lots of Peppermint Patties at the Halloween party at work.
  
• I watched a heart-wrenching movie about a friendship between the eight-year-old son of a Nazi concentration camp commandant and an eight-year-old boy who is a prisoner there.
  
• Before turning out the light, I read a book about medical mistakes, written by the doctor who will be performing surgery on my parathyroid gland in about a month.
  

Is it any wonder that I wrote this at 4:00 a.m. on Saturday morning because I couldn’t sleep?