random thoughts – Day 1,752 – (Thursday) – holiday purge

The post-holiday stretch of time usually means one thing. It’s time to purge. Not belongings or items, although that should probably also be done. It’s the holiday snacks and chocolate gifts and that need to go. And by “go,” I of course mean, “eaten.” By me. Preferably as soon as possible.

Instead of baking a finite quantity of cookies like I usually do, this year I made five types of chocolate dipped treats. Then I made a couple more types, extending the quantity to near infinite. Then, I didn’t see as many people as usual for whom I had prepared containers of treats, so there were a couple left over. Plus the stray odd counts of treats that hadn’t made it into any containers. 

Thursday's Supper.

Meanwhile, several gifts that included chocolates were received at home and at the office. Lest the tasty tidbits go stale or turn the way that chocolate sometimes gets weird, it seemed they should be consumed. Consequently, I have been eating chocolates every day since mid-December. None of my dress pants currently fit and most of my jeans are too tight. This does not seem to be a deterrent to the obsessive need to purge the sweets by consuming them.

On some (many) of the chocolate consumption days, there were chocolates for breakfast and lunch at the office. On remote workdays, there has been chocolate after lunch, including pretzel bark, chocolate covered potato sticks, chocolate coins, and saltine bark. A couple butterscotch haystacks were found and devoured. Later today, it was chocolate for supper, specifically, the last of the saltine bark, presented in multiple courses of two pieces at a time. Thank goodness that is finally gone.

There are still some chocolate coins to be dealt with, and several boxes of gifted chocolates in varying sizes including Belgian chocolates, Finnish chocolates, a big Ferrero Roche chocolate ball, and a dish of Hershey kisses. Oy. Looks like there is still some candy consumption to be done. I should just go buy some bigger pants.