Friday, August 5, 2011

You know you have a problem when……
The Barista has your drink waiting for you when you pull into the drive thru window. 


MONDAY AUG, 1ST, 2011
Wouldn’t you know that August 1st would come on a Monday.  And wouldn’t you know that I chose to go without caffeine/coffee this month. I pretty much look at this month as torture.  I know its do-able.  Obviously.  I mean, every month has been do-able.  Its just that I, along with millions of people not only rely, but look forward to that morning cup of joe.  Especially on Mondays.  That’s why The Steamery has their double punch card day on Mondays.  They understand the importance of that caffeine jolt before starting the work week. 

The reason I say caffeine/coffee, is because I don’t really drink pop.  Occasionally I will walk over to my next door neighbors that have a pop machine outside their business only because if I’m lucky, and most times I am, the machine gives me 5 pops for the price of one.  Granted, in order for that to work, I have to get a flavor I don’t really want.  Its like the candy claw game. You will always get 1 piece.  But if you’re lucky you’ll get a few!!!   Also, if you hit the button more than once, sometimes that works too J  I’m sure they love me telling people their machine is broken, but I guess until they fix it, its their problem. 
Coffee doesn’t even really taste that good.  Its kinda like beer. It has that “adulthood” taste to it.  You remember tasting it as a kid, and it doesn’t taste any different now than it did then, but somehow we can drink copious amounts of it.  When I started working at Regence 3 years, I would fill up my coffee cup up to 4 times a morning.  Now, the free work coffee is starting to taste sooo bad, that not even the Vanilla Caramel fufu helps. 
Today is a perfect example of a necessary coffee day.  I normally would have either gone straight to the coffee bar to fill up, or I would have stopped at The Steamery.  I made a deal with myself that if there are cars in the drive thru, I will keep driving, and if there are none, it’s an iced 12 oz double shot soy vanilla latte and two punches on my card.  I can really feel the espresso getting to all the tired body parts and giving them a little jumpstart.  That dang drink has ruined me.  Hopefully if nothing else comes out of this month, I will drink less of them, and more of the free coffee here at work.  Maybe after a small hiatus from it I won’t hate the flavor, or at least can drink it for a few more months.
FRIDAY, AUG 5TH, 2011
So I actually survived a work week without any caffeine.  Honesty, I thought it was going to be harder.  Granted, I got enough sleep this week, so that helped.  A few years ago, at my old “desk job” I was sooo tired, that I actually crawled under my desk and fell asleep.  I worked with my sister, so she watched guard for me.  I’m pretty sure I drank coffee that morning too.

So an update on last month’s No Fast Food.  I went until the 29th.  And THE ONLY REASON WHY I ate it that day, was because we were headed out of town for a quick overnight camping trip, and the hubby wanted Sharps.  That was my kryptonite.  My knees buckled at the thought of a hot fry being dipped in secret sauce. 

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