| I really can't believe it. I now drink coffee. I never | | | | out there are probably chuckling at the quality of gas |
| pictured myself as a part of the coffee generation. I | | | | station cappuccino, but I guess we all start |
| still love my soda, but now in the morning I find | | | | somewhere.) |
| myself having a cup of coffee before I leave for | | | | Anyway...at some point I started buying the |
| work and one to two cups while at work. This has | | | | cappuccino mix at the grocery store and then |
| just taken place in the past year or so. As I look | | | | graduated to General Foods International Coffees. My |
| back, I think it may have had something to do with | | | | husband drinks regular coffee at home, but I never |
| having a toddler in the house and also just beginning | | | | touched it, at least not then. |
| to build a website. | | | | Then at work we moved our offices and now, with |
| Building a website from scratch is quite an | | | | a coffeemaker nearby, I have started drinking |
| undertaking and there are many hours accumulated | | | | coffee at work. Just recently did I learn how to |
| hovering over the computer. In order to find a few | | | | make a decent pot of coffee. Talk about feeling out |
| more hours in the day I started getting up at about | | | | of touch! I am not sure if I make the coffee too |
| 5:00 am before work and also on the weekends. This | | | | strong or too weak, but no one has complained yet. |
| not being my normal routine, I guess I found myself | | | | I have even learned that it is pretty easy to make |
| in need of some additional wake up help to be able | | | | coffee in a large party percolator pot, a task that |
| to get up that early in the morning. Along came | | | | was completely foreign to me before. |
| coffee! | | | | I still add a flavored creamer to the coffee, but I am |
| Long ago, I never really cared for the mocha flavor | | | | really starting to like the mocha flavor on its own. My |
| of coffee at all, even in sweets or baked goods. I | | | | favorite flavor creamer is hazelnut. I have also tried a |
| think it all started when my husband and I were on a | | | | type of hazelnut flavored coffee concentrate syrup |
| particularly cold motorcycle ride with quite a few | | | | that can be used in baking and with ice cream and I |
| more miles to go before home. We had stopped at a | | | | am really starting to develop a taste for it as well. |
| gas station for fuel and I thought I might be able to | | | | My husband says it is only a matter of time before I |
| get a cup of hot chocolate. The only thing available | | | | start drinking coffee straight up black, with nothing |
| was flavored cappuccino. I gave it a try because I | | | | added. I am not so sure, but not so long ago I |
| was really cold and was surprised by how good it | | | | wouldn't have thought of myself as a coffee drinker. |
| really was. (Now I know all of you coffee experts | | | | Go figure. Time will tell. |