Alrighty! It's that time of the year once more! Giant chocolate coins, giant Ferrero Rochet cups and giant boxes of Russell Stover chocolate...I smell the holidays!

I'm going to call it, from the time November 1 begins all the way until February 14, this is what I call the "sweet months". With Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Christmas, New Years and Kwanzaa approaching, it's the time I love. Heck, Mexicans literally get to start off November celebrating with their Day of the Dead festival.

There's a myriad of reasons as to why I love this time so much, let's begin with the fact that fall and winter are my two most favorite seasons.

Second of all, because of the holidays bestowing upon us at this time, the environment is just soooo colorful! Especially if you celebrate Hannukah, which is literally the Festival of Lights for the Jews. Seeing the numerous holiday light decorations, people put around their homes, it's jaw-dropping.

What's even more fascinating about this holiday season, is that Hannukah literally falls on Christmas Day all through New Years Day, the same can be said of Kwanzaa although it starts a day later than Hannukah. Holy sh*t!!!!! We're all literally going to be celebrating together, I mean it!

Then there's the feasting on fatty foods. Then, there's the surge in sweet products, everything you can imagine - from pastries to chocolates and candies, which is what I'll focus on here.

Guys, the scene is just...beautiful. Which leads us to some of the wonderful products I've encountered.

Let's start with the humongous giant chocolate coins I found 'em selling at a local Target (pictured above). To whoever concocted these, you deserve a Nobel Peace Prize...both the REAL model and a chocolate replica (lol)!

Chocolate coins were always an addiction for me. As a young child, I can recall all the day to my toddler days, both in the Philippines and here in the United States, chocolate coins have always been the "king of chocolates" for me, it's been up there with Ferrero Rochet and Choko-Choko (a popular Philippine chocolate brand...dear Lord I miss those so much).

Okay...I take it back, I'm not just a pastry addict and enthusiast....I'm just a sweet-tooth addict and enthusiast overall.

You know, sometime around my kindergarten through second grade years, my love for chocolate coins married my imaginative and creative mind for the Super Mario world.

If you're a video gamer, you might have an idea where I'm going with this. In case not, well let's put it this way.

I was hooked into the visual world of Super Mario 64 as a young child, I loved it (honestly, like who didn't)? You know those coins that float, that you collect in the game?

Yeah...I would literally imagine myself as Mario, only that those floating coins would be chocolate coins and I'd hoard 'em up in an igloo fort, inspired by the Super Mario 64 level Snowman's Land, in which you actually can access an igloo in there, filled with floating coins and a star to complete the level.

Yeah...imagine an entire igloo fort stuffed and hoarded with hundreds, possibly thousands of these!

Ya'll know what happened in the process, I was struck with the "get realistic" talk, over time, those creative ideas were suppressed.

I mean, nobody really went up to me and told me, "That's never gonna happen", it's just that it's one of those things that gets buried over time.

Folks...believe me, it ain't "unrealistic" (save for the floating coins)....it may be a little...difficult, but yes given the right environment, yes...a person can BUILD an igloo and hoard a bunch of chocolate coins in 'em! Possibly even hoard a giant chocolate star wrapped in gold foil in the middle or hide it!

If mean come on now....if the Inuit people and other aborigines can do it, without technology, now just what makes one think we can't?

For those celebrating Hannukah and even Christmas and Kwanzaa, and looking for a creative game to accompany the traditional Dreidel game or any other traditional games you guys might play, I just gave ya'll an idea.

Anyways, just to note chocolate coins are also an excellent idea for gift-giving. In fact, traditionally - that was their main purpose, to be given as gifts to little children.

They're important to Christians Jews, as they are a staple food in Hannukah. Known as gelts, they are often given to children as gifts. Also be mindful, that gelts can also refer to real money in Jewish tradition.

The "sweet months" don't end after New Years Day. Heck, the winter holidays and all of its traditions don't even end there.

Why? Well remember, we got Chinese New Year in January 28 and Valentines Day in February 14! Valentines Day is a holiday that's straight-up associated with boxes of chocolate and candy along with the flowers (roses to be specific).

Oh gosh, I'll always cherish those memories back in elementary school when we'd hang and sometimes decorate paper bags in some designated area of the classroom, a bag for each student, and we'd all put candies, treats and cards in all the bags.

Many other times, some classes would actually have their student make and decorate boxes.

Then on Valentines Day, we'd all take our bags (or boxes for many other people), to rummage through and see what surprises awaited us inside.

Basically, it was like Halloween in February, you know...the excitement of seeing what kinds of candies and chocolates you got. The only difference being, that it's a romantic environment rather than a scary and ghoulish-type.

Hahahaha...the anxiety of, "Oh no, what I forget this person or that person"? That too, is unforgettable.

Speaking of Halloween, I would mention it up there, and label the "sweet months" as starting in October. Only thing is, I'm actually finding that Halloween is a dying holiday. It's a sad truth.

Trick-or-treating is becoming less and less common every year, I remember when I did it this year, probably a good 40% of the folks that were known for giving out all sorts of cool treats had their doors locked, and lights out.

In fact, they didn't even put up any directions. I remember looking at a neighbor's house, who used to attract so many trick-or-treaters and Halloween enthusiasts with his or her wild decorations, the same house was dead (no pun intended) no decorations, nothing.

When I shopped at temporary Halloween stores that usually pop up around October, I will also say...that they're products were just hilariously pathetic.

The costumes sucked, the quality sucked. Heck, I remember nine years ago, buying a really cool Rocky Balboa costume from one of those temporary Halloween stores that lasted me a good eight years or so.

In fact, the material was so good that that boxing robe was also usable as a sleeping robe, or even a bath robe. It was made out of either some sort of satin or silk-type material. And indeed, use it a sleeping/bath robe I did.

So yeah folks, there ya got it. From November 1 to February 14, sweet, sweet times!