Mmm, extra coffee.
What? I'm helping!
Okay, so I need extra coffee because I just had a nap, but Jilli mayn't have extra coffee. <not helping>
So I have now had two days in a row in which my dreams were situated in my childhood house. I miss that house. If I'm ever a rock star, I'm totally buying that house (in economically depressed former steeltown Ohio). It was passive solar design from the seventies, probably, but it was a great house. I'd have to put a woodstove insert in the fireplace, but other than that... Ok, it's probably not the actual house of my idyllic childhood memories. But it was pretty great.
NO COFFEE!!
siiiiiigh
Okay.
herbal tea or water!!
Green tea, maybe? And lots of water. I need to bring in some little bottles of bitters so I can flavor my fizzy water at work.
Part of why I want more coffee (or any caffeine, really) is because it's Quarterly Goal Writing Time at work, an activity I despise.
Not only do I have True Citrus in my work drawer, there are also random sachets in my purse. The amount of sugar I drink had dropped radically--I'm wondering if I should make a move to unsweetened soy milk, but enh. Soy milk is not tasty enough for all that.
In Jamaica, I left the house twice without my tea and travel mug with steeping basket. And I regretted it both times. At home we have lots of tasty moderate to un-sweetened things to drink. But getting fresh fruit juice at random (even nice) restaurants in Kingston--I bat zero. With the travel mug I could keep tea hot for four or five hours, so very pleasant.
Okay, I should totes go have lunch.
Yeah, I have true lime as well as some of the individual packs of drink mix. I don't use the whole thing, just a third or to flavor the water.
Maru's little hooded coat!
No coffee. Herbal tea is fine. Bitters for fizzy water is a great idea. Unless you use celery bitters. Those are inherently evil, I am sure of it.
Unless you use celery bitters. Those are inherently evil, I am sure of it.
They're awesome in bloody marys, but horrible in fizzy water. Yes, I tried that just to be sure.
Shit I didn't say:
To Dad #1: No, you may not wait until after the Super Bowl is over to bring your toddler in on the day of admission for his open heart surgery. Not even if the toddler is "a real Niners fan." Are you nuts? I dock you 1,000 common-sense-God-gave-a-goose points, sir.
However, I award you 5,000 adorable points for telling me that the day before admission you're taking the toddler to a tattoo artist to have Tony Stark's artificial heart painted on his chest with nontoxic kid-friendly body paint to give him Iron Man courage. That's pretty spiff.
To Dad #2: No, your son cannot donate blood to himself. The absolute age minimum for autologous donation is 15 years, and that's only with a note from the parents, and your son does not turn 15 for another two months. Yes, technically he was born in a year that is 15 digits prior to the year we're inhabiting now, but LEGALLY HE IS 14, and you robotically repeating, "But he's fifteen" after you've confirmed his birthdate to me does not magically confer legal fifteenity on him. Bad dad, no biscuit.
Annnndddd... in the middle of typing this, I was interrupted by a call from our blood bank to ask for an autologous donor order for the kid, because as soon as he hung up from me the dad called them to tell them that his 15-year-old son wanted to donate for himself.
Dad #2, you not only suck but in light of you I am retroactively awarding Dad #1 all his docked points, because at least he called to ask and then was gracious when he was told no.
