Coffee is King! (you can sleep when you are dead!!)

I LOVE my coffee. I take it just how I like my men ... rich, dark and distinctly continental *joke* (or is it? LOL) :-) I've never actually counted how much coffee I drink a day, but it's probably waaaaaaaay more than I should! I have to have at least two mugs of coffee before I can even leave the house in the mornings and I tell you no lie.

The entire household knows that until Dee has had at least a few mouthfuls of the first cup of coffee (along with a smoke!) that they don't even say BOO to me!! Don't get me wrong - I'm fully functioning and get the kids breakfast, organise lunchboxes and can manage to dress myself .. but don't ask me anything too taxing or expect too much from me!!

This was my mug of choice this morning ... I have a few favourite mugs, but this one is a nice BIG one for a real caffeine hit! Plus, it was a gift from my Sister and brother in law a couple of Christmasses ago.

I've even been known to walk the children to school with a coffee mug firmly in one hand so I can finish drinking it in the playground before they go in! Yeah, so I get a few weird looks from the other parents ... but it's only because THEY wish they had the balls to do the same!

Easter Sunday and a day off for Dee!!

I was woken up early by the sound of children wanting their easter bunny goodies, so up I got! LOL

I had decided as soon as I'd taken a sip of my first coffee of the day that I wasn't going to go into work. At the end of the day, even *I* deserve a day off and easter sunday is a good one to pick! Funny thing was, I couldn't relax much until it got to about 2-3pm and the sort of time I would be heading back home anyway!

What a fart in a trance I am sometimes!!

On the upside I've actually written most of chapter three of my story over the course of the day ... well, in its first draft anyway. I've still got a lot of "flesh and fluff" to add to it - ie properly write the descriptive content with all of the little details, but for the most part, the bones of it are there.

It's been a day of chocolate and writing ... couldn't have been better!

pregnant women should cut down on coffee??

Not that it affects ME as I'm highly unlikely to have any more babies LOL ... but it was on the news this morning that a new study has shown drinking more than 2 cups of coffee while pregnant gives expectant mothers a much bigger risk of miscarriage.

I think it's utter madness! I should add that it was only a relatively small sample, but I still think it's crazy. They didn't even mention that there is caffeine in tea as well!

Talk about instilling fear into people - especially first time mums. I've lost two pregnancies to miscarriage but at the end of the day you CANNOT cover yourself in bubble wrap for 9 months (although I'd actually like to try wrapping myself in bubble wrap for a laugh! Anyway I digress....) If you try to avoid everything that you "shouldn't have" and take all the vitamins in the world, you can still have a miscarriage.

It isn't only that ... it's .... well picture a pregnant woman who has had her 2 cup limit of coffee. She's had a really bad day and needs a drink of something! The vodka is calling her but she opts for a cup of coffee instead. What if a few days later that woman miscarries due to something completely unrelated? She'd blame herself and that cup of coffee for the rest of her life.

Ok got that off my chest now!!