Coffee

Once upon a time on Facebook, you could have your blog posts be published on Facebook automatically. Yesterday, in my Facebook memories it had a blog post. I was doing a “100 things about me,” but each of the 100 things was an individual post. The memory from yesterday was about coffee. It talked all about how I didn’t like coffee. I drank hot tea, but not coffee at coffee shops. Michaela loved coffee and I loved the smell of the coffee brewing every morning. I had tried it several times and just couldn’t get my taste buds to think it was a tasty drink. I loved coffee ice cream. One of our local places has a great coffee ice cream that Michaela and I would get on date nights often.

On our road trips, it was an essential part of the process to stop for coffee. Every once in a while Michaela would order me my usual tea along with a coffee of some sort. She say just try it and if I didn’t like it, she would drink the rest so I didn’t have guilt for her spending money on something that sat untouched.

I had tried Mochas before as that is an obvious choice for me as I love chocolate. One of our Christmas traditions is getting a hot beverage and driving around to see the Christmas lights. This particular Christmas she ordered me a white chocolate peppermint mocha and I loved it. I ordered white chocolate mochas from then on, but one day they were out of white chocolate so asked if I wanted just a regular mocha, and I decided to give it a go. I liked it better as it didn’t taste as sweet.

Fast forward to 2017, I had given up soda so caffeine was the important part and I grew to love coffee in all forms to the point now I can even have a cup of coffee black if there isn’t a sugar or dairy free option for milk/cream.

Coffee is not only enjoyed because of the taste for me - but it has become a treat, a time with friends at coffee shops, an emotional support comforting thing to have in my hand when needing to face the big bad world. I know Michaela loved that she turned me into a coffee girlie. We had lots of coffee dates where we talked about life, wrote poetry as that was a thing we liked doing together, and watched people and made up stories about them.

Enjoying a cup of dark roast today with a splash of chocolate milk and a few pumps of sugar free coconut syrup at home. Wish my love was here to enjoy it with me.