Priorities, people. Priorities.
coffee
ew. just…ew.
If you’re a coffee drinker, then you know there’s something magical about that first cup of coffee in the morning.
And how messing that up can ruin Christmas.
This morning, I ran a pot of coffee while I did a few other chores, and then prepared two cups. One for me in my favorite The Little Prince cup that holds just enough for me to get a little extra in before it starts to cool, and a giant cup for my honey.
In goes the half-n-half for the master of the house. In goes the delicious coffee, swirling into a lovely caramel color in his cup, and black as night into mine.
Then, in what I can only describe as a moment of horror reserved for late-night B movies, I watch myself, in black and white slo-mo, put…not one, but TWO heaping teaspoons of sugar into MY cup.
Dammit.
So I poured the unsweetened but lightened coffee into a new mug, and fixed my Love his cup, the guy who likes a little coffee in his sugar. And I traded The Little Prince for Spider-Man.
My feng shui is shot.
Today’s Christmas Eve chuckle
another edition of 3 favorite things
1. that first delicious stretch in the morning
2. the smell taste of just-brewed coffee
3. the rhythmic swish and scratch of the pen on the page in an eruption of inspiration
cuban-american, mmmmm
The best of both worlds!
Gets you going like nothing else…what a double-shot of goodness.
coffee, yeah
it’s a dog’s life
I thought, for a moment, “That’s the life.”
And then I remembered. No coffee.
morning routine. ha! routine*
*routine suggests discipline, doesn’t it? ha!
1. read day’s scripture. check.
2. looked outside at the impending weather.
3. looked at the exercise bike.
4. looked back outside at the weather.
5. made coffee. check. and check.
6. made some moves in Words With Friends. check.
7. read some blogs. check.
8. answered some email. check.
9. meant to write in my journal….
10. spent 35 minutes looking at journals and fountain pens instead. check.
coffee or dinner?
Maybe with the one I’ll get around to the other…
more coffee, please
Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino…Coffee doesn’t need a menu, it needs a cup.-Denis Leary
Coffee falls into the stomach … ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop … the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similies arise, the paper is covered with ink …-Honoré de Balzac
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don’t join writer’s clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing’s changed.-Jerry Pournelle
The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks – Sir James Mackintosh
Decaffeinated Coffee. It’s useless warm brown water. – Heard on David Letterman
Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! -“Coffee Cantata”, J.S. Bach
Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip. – Pope Leo XII
If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee; it is the intelligent beverage. – Sydney Smith
Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water. – The Women’s Petition Against Coffee (1674)
Just around the corner,
There’s a rainbow in the sky.
So let’s have another cup o’ coffee,
And let’s have another piece o’ pie.
– Irving Berlin, 1932
another cup of coffee 