One of the joys of living in a "charming apartment with lots of character" is that you never know what will break down next. Yesterday, the Southern California Gas Company confirmed that the hissing sound coming from my heater was, indeed, a gas leak. Funny how that coincided with one of the coldest nights L.A. has seen since I moved here. I woke up to my blaring alarm clock this morning at 6:30. While my body was nice and warm under my comforter, my face was freezing. I looked at the temperature gauge on my alarm clock, and it informed me that it was 54 degrees in my room. Brrrrrrr! I calculated in my mind how long I could stay in my cocoon and still make it to work on time. Finally, at 6:48, I emerged, jumped into my clothes, splashed water on my face and made it to work by 7:32 (that included a 25 minute drive to work).
Impressed?
I was cruising through the first hour of work when I hit an invisible brick wall that demanded a cup of coffee NOW! Try as I might to stay off the caffeine, there are mornings that simply require it, and all I can do is sip in sweet submission. Mmmm.
In honor of our friend, coffee, I thought I'd share some wonderful (selected) song lyrics from a song called "Coffee Break" from the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
There's no coffee! No coffee! Oh!
If I can't take my coffee break,
My coffee break, my coffee break . . .
If I can't take my coffee break,
Something within me dies.
Lies down and something within me dies.
If I can't make three daily trips
Where shining shrine
Benignly drips
And taste cardboard between my lips,
Something within me dies.
Lies down and something within me dies.
That office light doesn't have to be fluorescent;
I'll get no pains in the head.
That office chair doesn't have to be foam rubber;
So if I spread, so I spread;
But only one chemical substance
Gets out the lead--Like she said:
If I can't take my coffee break,
My coffee break, my coffee break . . .
If I can't take my coffee break,
Gone is the sense of enterprise
All gone, and something within me dies.
If I can't take my coffee break,
Somehow the soul no longer tries;
Somewhere I don't metabolize;
Something within me . . .
Coffee or otherwise,
Something inside of me dies!
Have a great day, and enjoy the buzz!!!
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you know, i quit smoking almost 3 years ago, after having been a smoker for about 10 years, and it worked. then last years i got problems with my stomach (gastric catarrh) and my doctor told me not to drink coffee for the first two weeks of treatment. i made it, but those two weeks were about 10 times harder than quitting smoking was for me. so, yeah, something within me dies too :)
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