Is it Me?

Everyone who reads my blog knows that I love my coffee.

In fact I am quite the snob in that I grind my own beans.

I use flavored coffee creamer.

International Delight Double Double.

Or I did until yesterday.

First off I slept passed 7 on a Sunday.

Made my coffee looking over the cleanliness of the apartment and am content.

I cleaned and moved things around this weekend.

Pour my piping hot coffee settle on the couch and take my first sip.

My forehead creases as I get a wee aftertaste.

Not enough to make me go ugh but enough to make me notice it.

Okay maybe I did not put enough coffee in.

There was no way that I was drinking that cup.

I ended up dumping coffee and making a second pot.

Same thing still have this funky aftertaste so am thinking that my coffee has gone off.

Dump out the coffee.

Run over to Tim’s and get myself a fresh bag of ground coffee.

Come home and make another pot.

Still the aftertaste and lightbulb goes off.

Maybe it is the cream?

I have two bottles so I decided to open up the other one and try.

Still have the aftertaste.

By now I am worried that it is me.

Is this a new thing?

Am I never going to be able to drink coffee again?

Decided that I was going to have another cup of coffee and use milk this time to color it.

Hesitantly took a sip (I mean coffee is the nectar of the gods and if I had to forsake it there were going to be serious consequences) and thankfully nirvana filled my mouth.

Now I know there are a lot of you shaking your head like what the hell Jay?

Do most normal people not check the cream before going to such extremes?

Have you met me?

I mean in my mind not only did I not just buy said cream I have never had a problem.

Two bottles as well.

What are the odds?

I have dumped the cream out and am taking both bottles back for a refund.

I don’t ever return things but this is a case where I cannot use and it is not the same as a liter of table cream going bad.

These creamers cost $6.00 a container.

See I am a snob.

This passed week was a really decent week for me.

WordPress cheered me on each day I posted by letting me know I was on a streak.

Which did not last through the weekend.

More so because of the cleaning and moving and needing to relax after.

Pain?

My shoulder is doing really well.

I have energy.

I have been soaking almost nightly in a hot tub at night to help relax muscles.

I added 9000 mg of raw herb in powder form of Tumeric.

It is to naturally help with pain and inflammation of the joints.

Have been taking it for almost a month.

One pill a day.

I have also been ensuring that at work I am using my left arm to do all the heavy work.

I kinda have to given that last week I tried to lift a 4lt jug of milk over my head using my right arm and nearly dropped it.

I now feel though that I can begin the rebuilding of the area without causing any additional pain to myself.

Lastly I was in a till on Friday and being my usual cheerful self.

Although with the lessening of pain I am even more exuberant in my cheerfulness as I am not rocking pain.

Chit chatting with my customers.

Enjoying my day.

I am serving one of my regular customers.

Asked him where his glasses are.

He is flummoxed that I recognize him with his mask on and no glasses.

As he left he said something that I have never heard at least not applied to me.

“If everyone was as happy as you are there would be no wars in this world.”

Now if that ain’t a tag to try and live up to.

But I am willing to give it a shot.

Spread happiness and joy.

Curb the negativity and glee in beating another person/community/nationality etc to the ground.

Curb the desire to rule everyone and everything in one way and one way only.

Curb the destruction of our Mother Earth.

I know that those are pipe dreams.

But they are my pipe dreams.

Pipe dreams are totally opposite of pipe bombs I am not advocating those.

But pipe dreams…..

Maybe we should all strive to lay a better pipeline to life.

©May 3/21

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