Addictions

The tea cupboard at my house...always full.

Baked olives-- dangerously easy to make means I make them too often!

And coffee. Oh, coffee. In August, I began brewing 6-8 cups of coffee each day and drinking the majority of it throughout the morning. Recently, I decided that drinking so much coffee is not good for my anxiety levels or blood pressure or general health. So, the goal is to not drink so much coffee everyday. 

Turns out, I'm out of coffee grounds at work, so that makes that easy--no coffee on Monday or Tuesday. Come Tuesday night at 9:30pm, my head hurt so bad that I had to go to bed. I could hardly turn my neck. Wednesday morning, head still hurting. Was going to to stop at Coffeesmith's on my way to work, because that would give me a limited supply of coffee. However, I was running late (the one day I don't remote start my car is the one day in the past week there's been frost...) and there was a 4 car line at the drive through. I almost turned around on the way to work and went back home because my head hurt so bad I thought I was going to throw up. But, I decided to be strong, and made it to work, just to realize the coffee grounds haven't magically replaced themselves. So, to the pop machine I go, like the addict I am, to get a Mt. Dew. This didn't really help, and by lunch time I couldn't move my head again. Luckily, a friend gave me some Advil and I survived the day. Luckily, I had agreed to meet a friend after work at Coffeesmith's, where I had to get some coffee--only 12oz, which I usually get 20. My head is still hurting a bit, but hopefully that will only last another day or so...or else, I'm giving in and going back to my 8 cups.