Nectar of the Gods

        Let’s take a moment to discuss something delicious. I am talking, of course, about coffee. It is a drink some might even call the nectar of gods. I certainly love it. Why, you may ask, did I randomly decide to talk about coffee? Well, at the moment it is very prominent in my mind. I have recently given up coffee. Normally, I have at least one cup a day. And I might add that it is never a small cup. While I love my coffee, I have realized that it doesn’t always love me. Often times it upset my stomach and gave me extreme heartburn. So I decided to take a break. In order to still get caffeine, I switched to tea. While this sufficed, I found myself wanting coffee after about a week or so. My sense of challenge, however, pushed me to see how long I could go. Thus I went 6 whole weeks without it. I am not ashamed to admit that I caved this past weekend. While visiting my sister, I got a medium black dark chocolate coffee from Dunkin Donuts. It was absolutely delicious!  

When I first began drinking coffee, it was always heavily doctored. I had to have flavor, extra cream, and extra sugar. Coffeemate was my biggest ally. And if I had Starbucks, it was always fancy. As I got older my tastes changed. I learned to appreciate the taster of coffee and began putting less in it. Now, I drink it black with one sugar. I admit I do prefer flavored coffee, though it has syrup I don’t use sugar. And if I go to Starbucks I more than often order my drink skinny (with skim milk), with an extra shot of espresso, or simply as plain black (flavored) coffee. I am a rare coffee drinker that enjoys tea as well, but generally I prefer the coffee.  

Though my picture game with themes has not resumed, I have been exchanging daily pictures with my aunt. Generally, we choose pictures based on our mood that day and it is our way of saying help. Since my recent loss, I have been trying to send at least one funny and one inspirational picture to lift guarantee I smile, and hopefully that my aunt does too. I have recently decided to pick a theme for a picture as well. This started 2 weeks ago. It wasn’t a mutual thing, but each day that week I sent her a picture of a coffee (or another warm beverage). I did it for a few reasons; I did it so I would have something to write about when I was at a loss. I did it to use up the list of theme ideas we never got to use. And I started with coffee because it was on my mind. I am no longer intentionally abstaining from coffee though I have only had 1.5 so far. I say 1.5 because today I had an energy drink containing green coffee extract. I am not sure if that counts, so I gave it a .5. I have, however continued to drink tea. I am sure this trend continued to drink tea. I am sure this trend will not last much longer though because I am still craving coffee. I guess we will just have to wait and see how long my hiatus will last.