I (inadvertently) did a bad, bad thing

The other day I bought some decaffeinated coffee beans. Coffee is such a big part of my life lately. I will spare you the saga of my pathetic latte addiction but I really could go on and on about it. On the weekends I brew coffee, though. Despite my latte habit I still have to be very careful when drinking actual coffee. It is more powerful than espresso in part, I am sure, to the lack of the milk to dilute it.

I drink it in cute little coffee cups. I have a collection of these cute little cups--a couple of which are pictured a few posts back. Both of the examples posted were gifts.

But I will stop myself from digressing too far from the intended point of this post. Despite my self-awareness of my sensitivity and my strategy of drinking out of small (cute) cups, I almost always end up drinking too much coffee and end up being a jittery, anxious mess. This is not good, especially considering my tendency toward being anxious anyway. And lately I have needed all of the help I can get to remain calm and feeling relatively stable.

So I bought some decaf coffee beans. My idea was that I would brew a pot of regular coffee first thing in the morning, then switch to decaf or a mix of regular and decaf. That way I could continue my liquid diet into the day and not become a freakin' tweaker.

This worked great last weekend when I piloted my new plan.

Yesterday, though, I left in the morning and didn't make coffee because Mr. C was still in bed. (I went into work for the day...this is another topic for another time).

This morning when we got up I went into the kitchen for our ritual and noticed that the decaf coffee beans were on the counter. I asked Mr. C if he had used those beans for his coffee yesterday and his answer was yes (duh, why use the "old" item when there is a "new" one available?). Oops...

So I told him what had happened and I am glad that I did because it sure did clear up for him why he was so tired yesterday and had such a raging headache. The poor guy. He is already having a bit of a time adjusting to his new medication, which does have potential side-effects of sleepiness and headache. It actually made him feel better to know that it was the coffee that was to blame.