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Mmmmm, Coffee!

May 19, 2009 - Posted in My Crazy Head, My House

On May 7th, I started a new diet.  I have cut most of the sugar out, so I started drinking my coffee with milk only.  This was EXTREMELY difficult for me.  I usually only put one teaspoon in my coffee, but I love milky coffee, lattes, and mochachinos.

By May 9th, I couldn’t stand drinking my coffee without sugar.  No, I did not cheat on my diet!  I switched to drinking tea in the mornings, as I never put sugar in my tea anyway.  Throughout the week, I was getting more and more irritable and really low energy.  By the morning of the 15th, I had a headache that lasted off and on until the morning of the 17th.

I woke up Sunday morning and put on a pot of coffee and begrudgingly drank my pathetic coffee with milk and no sugar.  Well, holy hyperactivity, Batman!  I’ve been on this major manic cleaning  jag ever since!  I’ve had two cups of my crappy coffee for three mornings in a row now, but I think my husband has started to suspect that I am mainlining meth.

I am a neat freak at the best of times, but I’ve gone into overdrive.  We have a half-assed rec room in the basement, but there is storage down there too, so everything that doesn’t really have a place ends up floating down there or out to the garage.  I spent the majority of Sunday clening the entire basement, throwing things out, and organizing the rest for a garage sale.  I normally just donate what we don’t want to charity, but there is so much stuff there, I’m thinking I may make enough money to make one of the payments on our condo in Florida!

Yesterday, I went to the home improvement store and bought a whole bunch of plants and supplies to add shelving to a closet and pantry.  I came home, did a whole bunch of yard work, transplanted all my new plants to beds and pots, and convinced my husband to put up my new shelves in the pantry.  While he put the shelves up, I cleaned out a whole bunch of cupboards, throwing out crap and organizing the rest either for the new shelves or for the sale.

I was completely exhausted by 6:00 PM last night, but every time I sat down for a few minutes, it was like a spring was attached to my rear because I just kept bouncing up and off I would go to do another little chore.  Now today, I’ve completely scrubbed down one of the bathrooms (the small one, in all fairness), the kitchen, and have completely organized and dusted all my hubby’s electronics.  This was no easy feat, as he is an IT dude and we have electronics galore!  When we first starting living together, I told him I was going to have the whole house rewired because everything he brought with him had a plug.

I’ve dusted, vacuumed, and scrubbed floors.  Now I’ve completed another post to my blog.  You know what?  I think it’s time for a coffee break!

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