I Heart Coffee

http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/coffee/

Cold Rain

It’s a rainy nasty day outside. Not the nice warm comforting rain but the cold miserable kind that is only nice if you can stay dry in your warm bed for the day. It’s making me kinda sad… I’m trying to force myself to get out of the doldrums… especially since there is so much to be happy about.

I handed in my last final for the quarter last night. A case study on the Eastman Kodak Company and why Kodak had such a hard time keeping up with competitors given its once monstrous presence in the film market. So now I can rest from school at least until January.

Chair massage at Swarthmore today… We’re really excited about that because it’s our first college final exam stress buster type event. That’s always been something that I’ve planned for so it will be nice to see how it goes. We are currently looking for more On-Site chair massage business so if anyone is in need of some “good rubbin”(R.M. Sungee), give me a call.

Oh and the maintenance man has FINALLY caulked the window at Mellow so we’ll now be able to keep the heat in. Its about time… we could literally see the outside courtyard clearly around the edges of the window.

Not sure how the handmade gift thing is going to go. I’ve gotten some things that are handmade but I don’t think I’ll be able to find something handmade for everyone on my list by Christmas… so I’ll have to resort to store shopping. At least a little. I’m proud of the artists that I did support though… I’ll tell more after the gifts are given.

And the Coffee thing is going alright too. I’ve definitely still been drinking coffee… but not the $4 Starbucks lattes. My pockets are feeling a bit fuller now that I’m thrifting my way through the coffee crave. Not full enough to buy my plane ticket to Munich though…

I got these in the mail last week.

Please understand when I tell you in all honesty, I AM IN LOVE with these earrings. They are light and beautiful and I have to have them ALL. And the best best best part about them is that whatever silver she uses… I don’t seem to be allergic to it. Could it be that there is no nickel here? Could it be sterling? It’s like heaven. The earrings I’ve been searching for all my life.

· Wood
· Hypoallergenic
· Lightweight (no old lady torn earlobes)

I knew everything was made better in Montreal…

xo,

G

Oh how I will miss thee...

I think…

No, I am. I am giving up… coffee. Indefinitely. But still.

Sigh. :(

It’s a very sad day people. Anyone who knows me well knows how much I love coffee… but it’s got to go. And there are a few reasons why.

For starters, it’s murdering my wallet. Not only do I drink coffee every single day, but I drink the expensive frou-frou stuff. I probably say, “Grande no foam latte please” in my sleep. The cheap stuff just doesn’t do it for me anymore. It’s just not good. At all. I use to like Dunkin Donuts coffee… but ever since the world realized that “America runs on Dunkin”, they’ve stopped making the good stuff. It tastes like trash. Other cheaper versions are the same… just no good. No effort. No good.

So then I made the mistake and switched to Starbucks. And there the problem arises… Starbucks coffee tastes more like trash than the others… so I have to drink the lattes. It seems that the lattes are the only thing they can get right.

I love the indie coffee house. I love the feel, I love the environment, and I love the coffee.

But that love has turned into something of an addiction. And it’s gone TO FAR. As much as I hate to subscribe to generic monster sized movements that can be explained as existing for nothing more than making us greater consumers of useless stuff, that is EXACTLY what I do when I go into Starbucks every day. I’ve been settling for a sub par caffeine fix in an effort to recreate the indie coffee house experience on a daily basis.


I can no longer justify spending so much money on a daily basis for something that is just “ok”.


With Mellow must come sacrifice. I know that I need to do a better job of managing my funds. Especially until the business starts making money to support itself… cuz right now, it’s being supported by me. So for now, I’m done with the daily cup. I’ll have a cup here and there with dinner… I’ll be down to get into Melodic’s place when it opens… and of course I’ll probably indulge when at a favorite indie spot. But on the real…