It started in December. I don't know why, but I couldn't get myself to wake up in the mornings. Work was so busy and I had things I needed to write. Lots of things. My normal morning beverage of organic green tea spiced with lemon and spices just wasn't getting me going like it had since I broke my lifelong addiction to coffee (in 2005? 2007? I can't remember).
Lifelong? Yes. My grandfather used to spoon feed me coffee from his cup when I was an infant. Not even kidding. When my Mom and Grandma finally figured out why I was this screaming, caffeine-withdrawn baby and yelled at him, he said, "I had to give it to her. She wanted it." Oh, Grandpa. Oh, Grandma's egg cofee...
Anyway, December 2011. It began innocently enough. A styrofoam cup half full of crappy office coffee at work once in a while. Just for a little buzz. Maybe a chaser of decaf. It didn't mean I was a coffee drinker, though. Nope. Because I'm one of those healthy, eat-organic, don't devastate the rainforest kind of people, right?
Yeah. This isn't even a week's worth of coffee cups.
That is one tall stack of environmentally unfriendly coffee cups.
I do like how the colors complement the Roget's Thesaurus that's always out on my desk, though.
For the caffeine and makeup addicted, here's the lipstick breakdown, top to bottom...
1,2: Chanel Rouge Allure #17, "Emotion"
3: Smashbox Legendary Lipstick, "Mandarin"
4: Chanel Levres Scintillantes lip gloss #158, "Braise"
5: Revlon ColorStay #320, "Dreamy Dusk" - tragically discontinued
6: Chanel Levres Scintillantes lip gloss #4, "Spark"
So I gave in. I made it official. I bought myself a cute coffee cup to use at work. No more ruining the environment with 10+ styrofoam cups every week. No more lying to myself. I've cut back to decaf, but still. I'm in. I'm doing it.
I'm Amy. I'm a coffee drinker.
Hi I'm Sandi and I became a coffee drinker late in life. When I was a kid, my sister and I would be asked to "go get your dad a cup of coffee". So we did. But I was never all that fond of it myself. My dad always had to have a lot of cream and sugar in his coffee. Not so, my husband's Danish grandma. Wow, could she make a strong cup of coffee! I think that's why I didn't drink it for so many years. So, fast forward about 50 years and I discovered mocha latte's and other assorted flavored coffees. Yum! Now I make my own de-caf version of those at home. Time for one right now! By the way, the coffee mug is awesome!
ReplyDeleteSandi, you haven't had coffee until you've had egg coffee. Beats any mocha, latte, flavored, sugared, creamed coffee out there today.
DeleteLove it! I actually (of course) have a coffee mug with (you guessed it) Shelties on it :-)
ReplyDeleteShelties on your coffee cup? Weird... (hee hee)
DeleteHi Amy ;-)
ReplyDeleteHi Bob. How's the writing coming along? Did you order Jeff Goins' book yet????
DeleteAh - caffeine confessions! My husband, who was raised in Italy, drinks at LEAST two double espressos a day. I've "quit" coffee off and on over the years, but now accept my addiction. After a double espresso at home in the morning, I admit that I consume caffeine for the rest of the day in hot tea, iced tea, toddy iced coffee and an occasional trip to the art museum down the street for another double...But remember: all of the latest research shows that coffee is good for you! My coffee cup at work has a picture of one of the astronomical observatories on Mauna Loa in Hawaii. And what is egg coffee? Obviously, I need to try it!
ReplyDeleteegg coffee:
Deletehttp://scandinavianfood.about.com/od/beverages/r/eggcoffee.htm
mmmm!