Today I mourn the loss of my coffee consumption. I always try and say I don't have an addictive personality, and it's not that I think I really do or even crave coffee itself, it's just that it's more than that. It's an image (walking around with starbucks cup somehow makes one chic and cool) it's a social thing (hey want to grab come coffee?) it's a morning ritual (get coffee check in today show). Caffeine reduces swelling, gives you a little energy, and combats hunger. It also does a number on my stomach and makes me feel like death with just one cup more and more so lately. I miss doing all the things that centered around it. Maybe I should take up smoking. After all you can look cool and badass that way. Granted, I might be smelly, cough a lot and have premature skin aging but I doubt it will upset my digestive tract.

I really think I'm in mourning for all the things I know I just can't consume anymore. Goodbye italian food and my favorite marinara sauce, the good pizza from Big Dough and the Washington Deli, goodbye starbucks and Dunkin Donuts. I'll remember all the good times we had fondly. Goodbye Magiano's and my French press of two different sizes and my 3 starbucks travel mugs. I'll miss you all. Sniff.

Time to Blog!
Well, aparently nothing that interesting has been going on if I haven't bothered to comment. I've had a few fleeting thoughts lately. Mostly from news headlines and such.

The other day I read that Obama and McCain were in a dead heat. I was automatically ticked off. Why this reaction? Haven' t we had enough of the 'too close to call' shit? Why can't it for once be unequivically, without a doubt, fully swaying in one direction. I swear I'm so sick of the hanging chads and after the last election I was pretty certain either half of America is deaf, blind, and stupid, or the elections are completley rigged and you really CAN buy your way into the whitehouse and stay there. I am having a hard time swollowing this has the vague possibility of happenning again.
Normally I'm not overly interested in politics, but please. Republicans please. Tell me with a straight face that vote you cast twice was a good one. Go ahead. I'll wait. Let's all consider (and it's easy to forgot) we're still in some non-ending "war" which has cost us MORE lives than the tragic event that happen 7 years ago today ever did. Trillions of dollars? Mostly, I'm sad for our country having lost that many good, strapping young men. This is why there are more females on the face of the earth. That is a real tragedy, a preventable one, one our president put us in and those guys dutifully followed because it was their job. He can be considered worse than a terrorist in my book. We'll never know all the facts, but I'm sure there is a reason for that. They don't want us to.

On another note, I saw the Britster is back on the VMA's. Some conservative mom complaining that the poor Jo-bros are being made fun of ($12 million last year, they aren't crying i'm sure). I do think the whole 'promise' to wait is a little juvenile and silly. Of course the British guy made fun of it, they don't make a huge deal out of crap like that over there. They also don't have as many problems with their teens drinking because it's not a huge deal. Wait til you get married to have sex? WHY?! So they can rush into marriage thinking that it's going to be so great and magical? There's another promise less than half of couples keep. As adults we really should know better, you're just psyching them up for some serious dissapointment. Not to mention the fact you're asking your kids to do something you didn't do. That really does seem so biblical times. I feel like we're moving backwards and those boys all claim to have 'been to the year 3000'. Ironic, don't cha think? It could also just be an ingenious marking ploy to keep themselves popular with the parental sect that is plopping down the cash to buy tickets to concerts and messenger bags at target. NOt that I have one or anything. One of them is also 20 years old. Please. If you are not having sex with girls by then, you are clearly gay. In the 'I like boys' way, yes.

See and I thought I had nothing to bitch about. My last rant would be about the special needs elevator users. For some reason ours lights up Red for down and Green for up. I need to down, it is red. I watch 3 women stand there pressing buttons while the doors open and close twice. They finally get out all flustered claiming they can't ride that, it's obviously broken and they'll just walk UP. I get in and see it clearly is going down and a lower floor button was already pressed, which is why the higher ones weren't working. Really? First time ladies?

We all have our moments. You have to be able to laugh at them and embrace your own stupidity. Just this morning I came to our other office which I do not frequent and pulled into a side of the garage I had not used before. The pass opened the gate, I looked for the right numbers and followed around to another gate. This time the pass did not work. I swiped and swiped and eventually had to have the car behind me back up b/c clearly it wasn't going to let me through this gate. I swore I had no alternate route until low and behold I found where I was suppossed to be and parked. You just learn something new everyday, now if you could just remember it for next time...