What I Learned by Quitting Coffee

[AMKuska]

My husband and I made a deal. I would quit coffee if he quit smoking. We did it for 2 months. Then his work sent him to texas, and I noticed on our bank statement he was purchasing stuff regularly at the gas station, and the total I happened to know was precisely the amount of a pack of cigarettes and two rockstars.

I called him out for cheating, went to starbucks, and have had coffee every single day since.

He's now switched from cigarettes to a vaporizer, but I haven't switched up my beloved coffee at all...

 

[digitS']

Oh Boy!

It's National Coffee Day!

Drinking so little coffee these days, it's often the canned kind. I'll get it steaming hot. ... getting up early and waiting for 4 hours before the first sip ... I have another 30 minutes!

Now that there has been 2 frosts, this mug won't be on the road or missed entirely ... Maybe, I'll go back and lie down for half an hour.

Don't you wish you were retired ?

Maybe

Steve

 

[Just-Moxie]

Coffee. I drank it for years. Then DH had to stop back in 2012, because it was giving him heartburn bad. So I stopped too, to support him.
I realized, while taking a cross country road trip, that drinking coffee actually helped my alertness and cognizance. I went back to drinking 3 cups a day, for 4 to 5 days a week. It also helps me increase pushing fluids, after having a kidney stone.

 

[thistlebloom]

If I had quit coffee then I wouldn't be sitting here unhappily looking at that mug. I forgot to pick up groceries on the way home yesterday so there is no half-n-half, no milk, and not even the canned whip cream that is so good for emergencies like this. The almond milk I resorted to is not cutting it.

 

[Nyboy]

LOL thistle been there, luckly I always have ice cream on hand.

 

[thistlebloom]

Gee NYboy, I wish you had reminded me earlier, I forgot all about ice cream! And it's French vanilla too! I bought a coffee on the way to work, but it's not the same.

 

[digitS']

Oooohh! That would've been good!

But, I like good coffee just about any olde way. If the almond milk isn't doing it, I might make especially strong coffee (for me) and add more almond milk ヅ. Or, just leave anything else out.

@moxies_chickienuggets , it's a great reward. I gotta pay attention to that mug of hot Joe as I'm carrying it out the door ... or, is it leading me?

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

I mostly drink coffee as a vehicle for the cream. As Kid#2 says, I take half and half literally. The worst part of this morning was that I had made a pot of my favorite spendy specialty coffee that I ration out to myself sparingly and didn't even get to enjoy it. Rats.

 

[canesisters]

How desperate am I for my morning jumpstart?
When the coffee maker at work was out of commission - I invented this!

K-cup with the foil peeled back and a hole in the bottom & paperclips. Slowly pour hot water in, coffee drips out.
The world can start spinning again now, thanks.

 

[Lavender2]

How desperate am I for my morning jumpstart?
When the coffee maker at work was out of commission - I invented this!
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.. And people spend hundreds on a machine, when all they need is a few paper clips and a creative mind! Ingenious! I probably would have left work for an emergency... and came back with coffee.

The first thing I think about in a power outage is, where is my camp coffee pot and we better have propane for the grill!