Blog Number 341

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

I decided last week that one of the things I would accomplish during my vacation time was to give up coffee (again).  I have blogged about past attempts to stop drinking coffee and because of past experience I decided to wean myself off slowly over a period of days.  I usually drink 2 cups in the morning with the wife and then 1 or 2 more cups (or 3 or 4) at work during the day.  My method involved lowering my intake by a 1/2 cup each day...

• Thanksgiving Day: 2 cups
• Friday, November 28th: 1 1/2 cups
• Saturday, November 29th: 1 cup
• Sunday, November 30th: 1/2 cup
• Monday, December 1st: none

I stuck to my plan and other than a slight headache and a little dizziness on Sunday and Monday, all has gone well and I have had no coffee for 4 days now.  I did get a decaf latte at the Starbucks inside our local Target but only because we had a buy one get one free coupon and the wife talked me into it.  I have also had a cup of hot tea twice as well.  The true test will be next week when I am at work and there is free (already made) coffee nearby and no one to watch me.  I will have to let you know how it goes.  I have given up coffee so many times that I feel I am an expert at it now.

Since the in-laws are only in town this week and they will not see us until next year sometime, they had us open our Christmas presents this morning that were from them.  The kids each got a sweater and the wife got a housecoat.  There was one big combined present that was TO both kids and they were surprised and excited to see that their aunt and grandma had bought them Nintendo Wii.  This left my gift.  My wife snickered a little as I began to open it and said that SHE would really enjoy it.  After I opened the box I realized what she meant.  Inside the box was 4, 8 oz packages of gourmet coffee.  So it seems I ruined Christmas.  I am told I am difficult to buy for and when I take out one of the sure things (coffee) then it is just that much harder.  There was some chocolate in the box as well so I am sure I will enjoy that.

Well I am told that I get to go grocery shopping with the wife today.  She seems way to excited (if you ask me) about this.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon