My New Year's resolutions - Part 1

I don't normally make new year's resolutions, but for this year, I was thinking about two things I wanted to change. My coffee drinking habits was one of them.

My relationship with Coffee is fairly new. It wasn't until William was almost one, that I became a daily drinker. Until then, I would have a cup (usually something fu-fu with whipped cream) when going out to a cafe or visiting friends. My actual addiction started when my team at work started making french press coffee in the mornings. For the first month or so, I could still go without coffee on non-workdays. But after a while we started having coffee in the afternoons too, and I was hooked.

Now, I know 2 cups of coffee a day is not the end of the world. What I didn't like about it, was that I was addicted. If I skipped my coffee, I would get a head ache, and usually by the time the head ache had set in, drinking coffee didn't kill it. Most of the time, it is not difficult to get my coffee fix, but when traveling or being too busy with house projects (or whatever else we were doing during the 3 month haze leading up to our move), it's not always convenient to make/get coffee.

The thing about me and coffee is that I don't drink it for the caffeine. I actually don't think the caffeine has any affect on me. I drink it because it tastes oh-so-good! Another thing about me and coffee is that I have to have something sweet with it. A piece of chocolate. A slice of pie. A cookie. Something sweet. I don't like coffee with breakfast really, since I don't eat sweet breakfast. Coffee and oatmeal doesn't really work. However, a bagel with cream cheese and a good cup of dark roast is wonderful!

Moving to Sweden, where the majority drink a lot of coffee, I found myself drinking coffee on both of our daily fika breaks at work. Having fika is a way of socializing, and it always involves a cup of coffee or tea and usually some pastries to go with it.  However, coffee is more often "enjoyed" in Sweden, than "downed" like it often is in the US. 

So, my new year's resolution regarding my coffee habits was to skip my morning coffee. If not every day,  then often enough to where I didn't depend on it. It didn't take long to get over the withdrawals, and now I only have my afternoon coffee on most days. I can have a morning coffee when I want to, but not have to have it. I will have to call this a success.