the doc suggested chocolate, too, but let’s not push it

i can’t wait for my virtual high-five after i share my latest seemingly impossible accomplishment:

i haven’t had caffeine in THREE days. not three minutes or three hours, but three whole days with zero sips of coffee.

i decided to end my eight year love affair with coffee and espresso a couple weeks ago after a trip to the cardiologist for palpitations i’d been having for a couple of months that had gotten worse. if you’ve ever been addicted to caffeine, you know that quiting cold turkey is basically like asking someone to hit you in the head with a hammer nonstop for about two weeks. i decided not to go that route but still cut back drastically right away. and after a week of bad headaches coming on right around 3pm (when whatever crazy addicted part of my body realized i was serious about not getting that skim latte today), i think i’m over the hump. getting sick actually helped because the last thing i wanted when i woke up with a sore, scratchy throat was something hot to drink. hey, maybe they should start giving all those meth addicts a sinus infection. i’ll call the folks at “intervention” pronto. anyway, i’m very proud of myself and am already thinking how i can spend all that extra cash. (the weekly coffee budget really had gotten out of control.) i don’t think i’m done with coffee forever, especially if i end up going to grad school, but i am officially no longer an addict.

BUT, when i do fall off the wagon, you better believe it will be for starbucks’ toasted marshmellow mocha.