Jan 23 2009
Coffee anyone?
I start every morning with a cup of coffee, I do not think I could function without one. I like my coffee with sugar and creamer. Not just any but as of lately I use coffeemate coconut creamer and my usual 3 teaspoons of sugar. I am out of work now so being able to have my coffee and creamer is special. I only buy the coffee when it is on sale and the creamer only if I can afford it because it usually does not go on sale.
I drink coffee and not much of anything else if I ever needed a blood transfusion they could use coffee instead of blood.(lol) The coffee does not keep me awake or does not make me thirsty or any other ill effects that I know about. My last check up was good and so was my blood-work. Of course I did not discuss my coffee drinking with the doctor. I do not drink anything else and I am sure I would have gotten a lecture on the fact that I need to drink water and cut back on my coffee consumption. I am not on any medication and I get up every day and I probably have more stamina than most, the girls are busy and have had many nights where they did not go to sleep until 3 am and I was back up at 7 am to babysit and start the day over again. So, as far as I am concerned the coffee has no ill effects on me.
When I was a little girl before I started school, my foster grandmother and my foster aunt used to take a break from housework and have a cup of coffee together as they watched soap operas. My mother was working and so I was in their care. I insisted on having coffee too so they would only put a drop of coffee in a cup of milk and put a little sugar in it, I guess that is where I learned my habit as well as the way I like my coffee fixed. I never fixed my kids coffee when they were little but they always were trying to drink it. Today as adults only one of them drink coffee on a regular basis and another drinks it occasionally and the other three do not drink it at all.
Drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes are my vices, I am working on telling myself it is time to quit smoking but since I have smoked forever it is a hard habit to break. I have managed to cut back, since I do not have an income. I am really tired of this habit though, I can remember telling myself a long time ago that I was never going to let it get to the point of not being a habit that I couldn’t shake like it does to so many others, I was able to put them down at that time but any kind of aggravation sends me outside for a smoke. I hope to be smoke free this year. I really am going to bite the bullet and not use any of the medicines that help you because I am allergic to so many things, I do not want to try, I have nasty allergic reactions to many different things and have ended up in the emergency room too many times for my liking. It is all in my head anyhow so I just have to be strong and quit.
As long as I have my coffee I will do fine.
