COFFEE

I've never been a coffee drinker. I've never liked coffee.  EVER.  I  have tried and tried and tried.  Didn't like the immediate taste, the after taste, the thought of not being able to get moving in the morning until I had a cup.  Nothing about coffee has ever been appealing to me.  And I thought that if I had lived lots of years without it then I could live the rest of my life without it.

I've always craved my Diet Cokes in the morning.

Well, in the past year I've decided that I WANT to be coffee drinker.  I want to be one of those people who crave it, talk about it, have their favorite flavors, have their favorite additives, have their favorite cups, meet for cofffee, etc.  And, basically, I just need something new to get me moving FASTER in the morning. 

Diet Coke is NOT doing it for me any longer.

So my good friend and coffee enthusiast and pusher has been giving me lessons in Coffee 101.  She gave me a cup of her favorite last week and I loved it.  The only coffee I've ever said that I loved.  THEN, she gave me a bag of the fresh ground stuff to further encourage my addiction.  She gave it to me with a grin on her face that said yep I've got her hooked now. All that afternoon I kept picking up the bag and smelling it.  It was getting to me, seeping into my pours.

Well, today was day three of my new habit, new addiction, new obsession.  The "new thing" that in five years my doctor is going to tell me I have to give up if I want to live one more day.  I know that in a few days I'm going to be looking for all night coffee bars.  I'm going to wake up at four in the morning just to make sure, for the third time, that the coffee maker is on auto - so it goes off and starts cookin' EXACTLY when my alarm goes off.  I feel it. 

This morning I actually asked Husband if he wanted me to pour him a cup of coffee.  Never in all our billion years of marriage have I asked him that question!!  After I picked him up off the floor he said yes honey I would like that.

So what I now know is that I've always been a closet coffee addict.  I've just managed to keep it under control.  Now, thanks to my good friend/pusher woman, I have reconnected with that addiction and found my new favorite thing to do in the mornings.

And my coffee of choice is Starbucks Sumatra with a splash of  half & half.  Oh, my!  Just putting it in writing makes me want a cup!!!!

I think that in the near future there are going to be Coffee Addiction Clinics sprouting up everywhere.  People will be saying they've been gone for a while because they been in the CAC.  It will be socially accepted.

I'm hoping insurance will pay for my stay there.