"I like coffee, I like tea..."

Get the reference? Huh? do you get it?

(dramatic pause)

Yeah probably not unless you were an a capella choral dork like me. "Java Jive!" people!!!! Ok now that's over with, I just wanted to express how much I'm tired of this wishy washy, don't know if it's sunny or overcast or humid or foggy or cold or warm weather. Transitional wardrobes for autumn are hard enough to plan and accumulate and accesorize correctly, let alone find the appropriate SHOES, without this bipolar weather we're having.

So after a nonproductive (for me anyway) run to get references from the library, I decided to stop at the deli on the way back into the office to grab a drink. So what do I get? Not iced tea or coke or something any normal 26 year old would grab to drink at the office. No, I grab a container of Lehigh Valley Milk Chug in "Ultimate Strawberry."

Yep. Mature. Right here.

I also had to pull out a calculator earlier today to figure out that yes, I was 26.

And on Saturday? Definitely bought a Sesame Street t-shirt.



Container of Strawberry Milk: $1.25
Sesame Street t-shirt: $8.99
Knowing how to recapture your youth? Priceless.

I am glad I can still sometimes forget about the calculator and my age, and my job, and just chill out and grab some strawberry milk and be a kid.

Life: Brought to you by Caffeine

We all have our morning rituals that make our day seem to start just that much better. I will preface all of this by saying I am not a morning person. At all. In fact, if you wake me before my alarm goes off I turn into a vampire and will bite anything near me. Hard. And I will hiss at you. But besides that, I have my own rituals.

I need coffee to live. It is not an option, it is a requirement. Without coffee the fluid in my veins that is supposed to be blood but is really caffeine will shrivel up and my eyes will sink back in my head and my throat will cease working and I will DIE. And if I haven't had coffee I am non-verbal (ask my mom.. not kidding). So today, I begin being grateful for the little things by being thrilled to have the following item in my life:

Fat Free Half&Half

I assume you're either laughing at me right now or your cursor is hovering over that funny little red-x ready to close my blog forever not to return. But just get this: you want to lose weight but you love chocolate and sweets and those guys named Ben and Jerry for creating all sorts of cold creamy goodness which can only be consumed by the pint (because any less is a sin for which the gods will smite you I SWEAR) and imagine you hate Splenda because it ruins your Don Francisco Vanilla Nut coffee by adding a horrible after taste (and you just cannot stand for that!!!) so you need to find other options and *cue angels from on high* you discover that Fat Free Half&Half tastes exactly the same! And saves CALORIES! Isn't that AMAZING?!

So as I sit at my desk today eating my Rasberry White Chocolate scones, just remember: I'm drinking DIET COFFEE. I'm allowed my scones. Dammit.


*Who said it couldn't be the mundane things in life that make us happy?