A Cup of Coffee
lifeI’m sitting here in my dining room with a cup of coffee after a (much deserved) late start to the day. I’m staring at a blank screen (or not so blank after writing these words), and I honestly have no idea what to write for today. As I sip my cup of coffee, a realization hits me. Maybe I’ll write about my cup of coffee.
I’m not a coffee snob, nor am I any kind of coffee connoisseur. I don’t know everything there is to know about coffee, or how to make it fancy, but I do know that I enjoying drinking it. You can even say, that my body (or my mind seems to think) needs it.
I never thought I drank too much coffee. I’m not even really sure what “too much” really means. Back in the day, I did drink about 3+ cups of coffee a day, and I was having heart palpitations so maybe that’s what too much meant for me. This was around the time I was super stressed with work (but I’m always stresed with work), so I drank a lot of coffee. I acknowledged (and my doctor) that it was a problem, and reduced my count to just a cup of coffee a day. Eventually, afternoon coffee runs were a thing of the past, and although I felt more lethargic during that 2pm slump, I survived.
Around this time, I was also on my intense health kick. I got this grand idea to stop drinking coffee in the mornings to cut my caffeine intake to zero. That didn’t go so well. It could have been just my body reacting to the lack of caffeine. I stayed with it for some time and it did not get better. I have chronic migraines and later came to find out that lack of caffeine (aka coffee) in the morning is a migraine trigger. Alas, this was not a battle I wanted to fight then or now.
After that period of time, coffee in the morning has been a routine. If I sleep in, or stay in bed, and skip my cup of coffee, I suffer for the rest of the day. Now I have to make a concious effort to actually get out of bed before that migraine kicks in due to the lack of coffee in my system.
So here I am, in my dining room writing this post, hoping that this cup of coffee kicks in before my migraine does. Wish me luck!
Side Note(s):
- This post is Day 19 of the WeblogPoMo2024 challenge.
- I’m sure that if I really needed to stop drinking coffee in the mornings, there are ways. Needing a cup of coffee could really just be psychological but a cup of coffee is a low price to pay to avoid my debilitating migraines.
- Speaking of migraines, I still need to one day write about living life with chronic migraines. Stay tuned.
