Who else is drinking copious amounts of coffee lately?

[2naSalit]

9. About two months ago...

I started drinking a second 18oz mug.

I stopped drinking a whole urn, from my Melita, every morning but somewhere in my late 40s I slowed to one mug before 10am or I would wake up at 2am and not be able to get back to sleep until 20 minutes before I had to get up for work. It sucked so I was willing to make the change.

But now that I'm retired and it doesn't matter that I get up for a couple hours in the middle of the night, I have decided that it also doesn't matter if I drink another mug of coffee. By then I am also ready to add food to the mix and that makes for a very pleasant, if long, morning. My coffee is my morning ritual and I am an absolute snob about the coffee I drink (fair trade only) and I treat myself to the best thing of the day right after I get up. After that, I can face nearly anything the world throws at me.

I use a little sweetener, honey or-? and 1/2 & 1/2.