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No Decaf
November 9, 2010
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www.Professorshouse.com states "Today US coffee drinkers consume approximately 3.1 cups per day on average, with the cup size being nine ounces. Fifty-two percent of Americans over the age of eighteen drink coffee every morning, and on top of that, thirty percent of the population drinks coffee occasionally, meaning that over eighty percent of Americans consume coffee."
The daily need for caffeine has allowed one small bean to grow into millions of dollars. Let's face it, as the calendar continues to bring on another year it also brings on a generation of sleepy people. I remember my father, who worked long hard days and nights, drinking coffee constantly; my mother, not so much. Me, I must have this elixir first thing in the morning and then again by 3:00 in the afternoon, otherwise I'll drop from consciousness. Truly, if 3:30 rolls around and I've not had my cup of joe I get a little off, a little cranky and very tired. My kids have taken to asking me if I had my afternoon dose prior to their asking for a favor. I hate being this predictable, but it's true. My body needs this help to get over the midday slump. I'm sure some nutritional journal would steer me towards something else like recommending more sleep (not gonna happen) or maybe cranberry juice, but the truth is I like coffee and everything about it: the taste, the buzz, the flavors, the options, the chemical reaction when I stir in milk. It's a great experience hot or iced for me and something I value everyday; unless I get sick, then I don't want to go near it. In fact, this is when I notice I'm getting sick- when I've lost my taste for coffee. These cooler months have me drinking good ole black coffee with a drop of milk or a skinny vanilla latte; the ultimate chick drink next to a Cosmo which is a whole other column and TV show reference.
She Buzz Words:
- Happy Hour
- Oil Change
- Dry Cleaner
- House Cleaner
Right now she could be:
- Grading Papers
- Packing for a trip
- Trying to log online but to no avail
- Feeding her baby
She could be a :
- Pharmacy Tech
- School Superintendent
- Janitor
- Painter
She Phone Starter
What's the biggest conflict in her life?
She Party
Add diapers to your list of at-home parties to host. Yep, right up there with Pampered Chef, Tupperware, and Tastefully Simple, diaper parties are the new in-home thing to sell. A large assortment of cloth diapers along with a variety of baby items, are available to show and sell. www.Diaperparties.com
She Text
TigerText is a smart-phone application that allows the exchange of texts, which will disappear after a certain length of time.
She Read
- "What I Now Know About Success: Letters From Extraordinary Women to their Younger Selves." - Ellyn Spragins
- Mom's Survival Guide. - Redbook
- Women, Food and God. - Geneen Roth
She Fact
More than 1 in 5 moms contribute regularly to a blog.
Check out themathmom.com, a site dedicated to helping moms figure out all the situations during their day that require math. It might be how to set the most efficient carpool route or the cheapest alternative for her grocery trip that afternoon. Either way, this can definitely come in handy.
According to the Commonwealth Fund, 70% of women have either no healthcare coverage, or inadequate coverage.
A Venti Starbucks coffee contains the same amount of caffeine as 12 cans of classic Coke.
Acording to a Real Simple Magazine survey:
- Most people have 5-9 things on their daily to-do list but only cross off 3-5, by days' end.
- 31% feel guilty about purchasing pre-washed salad.
- 56% believe social-networking sites are more of a time-waster instead of a time-saver.
- 43% would rather have someone clean their house instead of do their laundry.
- 50% take one hour or more, to get out of the house in the morning.
- 21% find time to cook dinner every night of the week.
She Helps
After spotting a billboard that read SCDiaperChange.com, Amanda Payne learned that some poverty stricken moms have only one diaper per day, for their baby. Outraged, Amanda set up an enormous diaper drive and collected 19,000 diapers for women and babies in need. Log on to the site to hold your own drive.
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