Success Saturday: Valentine's Day and Leftover Christmas Candy

I'm alone on Valentine's Day. I have no one to share the day dedicated to lovers. No one sent me roses. No one sent me a heart shaped box of chocolates. I made breakfast for myself this morning just as I do every morning of the year. I do have candy in the house. I have leftover Christmas candy to celebrate the day of love.

I have gourmet candy corn that taste like peppermint to eat with my coffee. I like the candy corn. I like the coffee. Once in a while I would like to be able to share the candy corn and the coffee with someone. I don't want to share my apartment with someone, I just want to share a carafe of coffee and some candy. I would like to be able to cook for someone else beside myself once in a while. I would like to have someone take me out to eat on Valentine's Day or to a movie. I would like someone to send me a heart shaped box of chocolates (never mind that chocolate isn't on the diet the doctor gave me) and a dozen red roses.

Thanks to the peppermint candy corn and strong coffee, I will be over this mood shortly. Once the mood has passed I will be able to get back to writing and doing housework. This morning, I got on a step stool and put the clean bath towels in the cabinet in the bathroom. I also put the clean sheets and pillow cases in that cabinet. This week I wrote two short stories and a poem, so I have had some small successes this week. I'm looking forward to getting back to my normal routine after Valentine's Day is past.

Leftover Coffee for Wednesday

Leftover coffee

Waiting for me to reheat

Maybe on Wednesday

I made fresh coffee yesterday and drink the entire carafe. I made fresh coffee today and drink about half a carafe, so on Wednesday I will drink leftover coffee. This is about normal lately; I make a 12-cup carafe full and drink only about half of it. Sometimes less then half, but I am not going to waste coffee by pouring it down the drain.

Coffee reheated in a microwave tastes all right. It is not fresh, but it taste good. If I want ice coffee rather then hot coffee it is easier to make with leftover coffee because all I have to do is add the ice and whatever else I want in my ice coffee. I do not drink very much ice coffee, but the days are getting warmer so I will start drink a glass or two every few days.

What else can I do with leftover coffee? I suppose I could use it as an ingredient in a recipe. I will have to check the web to see if there are any recipes requiring coffee. The temperatures are rising in Las Vegas, going into the triple digits and hot coffee does not cool me down like ice coffee. When I make ice coffee, I usually put milk in, but when I drink hot coffee I seldom add anything except chocolate.

You know it’s that time of year when

You know it's that time of year when ...

• the temperature drops twenty five degrees over night
• you have to defrost the morning paper to read it
• you get a dozen offers in your e-mail box to receive personalized letter from Santa
• the neighbors deck their houses with blinking red, green, white, and blue lights
• you can't face another day of leftover turkey
• the cat sleeps on your head all night and won't move in the morning
• you are thankful it didn't snow you in last night
• winter birds huddle in your garage waiting for sunrise
• you remember summer's 110 degrees fondly