Bleeeuuurgh!!!

OK, coffee is the most disgusting thing!!!!!!!
How can people drink it, HOW!?!?!
It's repulsive, dreadful, sickening, revolting, horrible!!!
Puke puke puke!

Yes yes, I'm fiiiine. Nothing to worry about. You there, put that straightjacket away, and stop with the worried mumbling everyone. See, the thing is this: I did another bit of self-help research about my headaches earlier, and came across this: "[headaches] can also come from stress, certain medications, eye strain, viral infection, not getting enough sleep or too much or too little caffeine." Now y'all may know I'm rather Coke addicted (Diet, No Ice)... usually, but I haven't had any for over a week. So I thought, "Eureka!" (yes, that's what I thought - maybe it's related to PhotoTime Tuesday's current theme), anyway, Eureka is what I thought, and furthermore, "ah, maybe that's what it is then". Lack of caffeine I mean.

Now, having no Coke in the house, and knowing that the caffeine concentration in Coke is rather low after all, and also hearing my dentist's warning words still ringing in my ears ("Coke is baaad for the teeth, mmkay? If you drink Coke, much drilling must be done to your teeth" *ominous look, drill in hand*), well, with all that in mind, I resolved to brew myself a cup of this awful beverage.

Some explaining must be done. I had not drunk coffee since the age of six, when I'd made the mistake of ordering a cup at school for 4 o'clock tea. I'd wanted to be all big and grown up like the older kids, who all drank coffee. But as soon as I'd taken the first gulp of the horrible brew, I found it to be much to my distaste, in fact, completely undrinkable. But the evil nuns (for I did spend one year at a catholic boarding school, yes, yes, now you know whence my hatred stems) made me drink it up, can you believe it? Poor little child that I was, having innocently ordered the wrong drink, they forced it down my throat and unknowingly (?) scarred me for life. Never again was I going to touch that horrible, horrible concoction.

Until today. After all, it had been 20 years, and though I had never since found the smell of it alluring, or felt tempted to try it again, I thought maybe it was now time to overcome this old trauma of mine, that maybe I would like it after all, and as I said, no Coke in the house, lack of caffeine, yadda yadda.

Well I've been cured for life!
Coffee is the most disgusting thing!!!!!!!
How can people drink it, HOW!?!?!
It's repulsive, dreadful, sickening, revolting, horrible!!!
Puke puke puke!

Ahem. Such is the story of Clarissa and Coffee. Incidentally, I do find that my headache has rather improved. Must I return to good old Diet Coke then... *woefully shakes head* Or maybe Caffeine pills? Hm nah, Coke will do. *wanders off to the supermarket*