The Uncoffee

[swestrup]

I seem to have suddenly gone off of coffee. Thursday I had morning coffee an then coffee with breakfast, as usual. I later went downtown and drank coffee with sps.

The next morning (yesterday) I woke up, wondered downstairs and discovered I didn't want any coffee, so I made myself tea instead. I drank tea all day and never touched coffee. This morning it was the same thing. Coffee suddenly holds no interest.

Its not the first time this has happened. When I first married taxlady, I always drank tea by choice and coffee was an occasional thing. I've relapsed into that habit on more than one occasion when she's been out of town. I think it has to do with the relative amounts of work involved, as well as taste.

Although taxlady drinks tea, she always wants coffee in the morning and will often make coffee even when tea is already brewed. As a result, when she first moved in and she was always up before me, I would wake to a full pot of coffee waiting for me. It was just easier to take a cup than to brew some tea. Then there was a period where we had a coffee maker that could be set to automatically start in the morning, thus making coffee much more convenient.

After both it and its replacement died and we replaced it with a less-fragile but non-automatic model. Still, if I was getting up before her, so I had the choice of making coffee or tea, and they were about equal work, and she would want coffee, I would just make that.

About a year ago, we stopped making pots of coffee (not sure why) and started using the espresso maker to make individual alonges. So now, when taxlady gets up, she always has the same amount of work to do to get her coffee, no matter what I've already done, and ditto for me if I want coffee.

So, suddenly I find I prefer tea again. Maybe I always did, and I'm just tired of making espressos. Or maybe its just me wanting a bit of a change. We'll see.

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[taxlady.livejournal.com]

I switched to alongés because I like them better.