Damn Those Coffee Gods!

I haven't had any coffee today.  I want some...but the consequences of drinking that stuff are dire...even decaf has it's adverse side effects.  One thing I like about coffee though is the smell...or as they put it on the Maxwell House coffee commercials years ago...the aroma.   I bet if I went to a cafe and just sat there the whole day and sniffed coffee scent I'd be just as happy as if I drank it....NOT.

Coffee makes my stomach burn and I have to take massive doses of ranitidine to keep it from really paining me...not only that I have a stricture in my throat and have to go to the stomach doctor every so often to have it dilitated or dilated or however you want to say it.  Either way, this is probably a result of guzzling massive doses of coffee every day since I was sixteen years old and couldn't seem to motivate myself to get out of bed except for the fact that coffee existed on earth and the coffee gods would beckon me patronize the coffee pot each morning...until I was a basking in a hyperactive euphoria.  Back then I wished coffee cups were bottomless... some days for me they were.

I would walk into the cafeteria at the prep school that I attend..leaving a trail of hardened sleep peeled  from my eyes that I had failed to dislodge with the two minute water splash that  I mistook  for a wash up in the morning.  I couldn't see much through the slits that I called my eyes at that time of morning, but somehow I  feel my way to the coffee cups...grab one and get to the coffee spigot to fill my cup. To offset the bitterness of the coffee, I would add lots of cream and sugar...until I felt it was perfect.  Then I'd stagger to one of the cafeteria tables, look out of the window...(I like to sit near the window) and converse with the java gods until my cup was empty...Boy.  How I miss those days. (It was like meditating).

I sit here today...trying to avoid the coffee pot.  I have run out of coffee and coffee creamer..  When my son made a trip to the store last night I chose between coffee and ice cream...neither of which I should be consuming... in an effort to kick the coffee habit I chose ice cream.  I'm trying to stop consuming sugar because in the land of hyperness...it affects me worse than caffeine...but damn it I love sugar too.

But, that coffee pot beckons to me louder than ever. I can't wait til tomorrow, cause when I go shopping, I'm going to get a big bucket of decaf.  At least then, I'll have a choice as to wether or not I will drink coffee. Maybe...if those coffee gods don't tempt me too much, I'll limit myself to one cup or just two.