When I introduced you to my inner 80 year-old man, I mentioned how I like my coffee black.  OK, yes I do enjoy the occasional flavored latte, but if I’m just getting straight up coffee, black please.  Well, I stopped drinking caffeine in May 2010, which is the same time I stopped drinking wine.  All a part of my effort to get pregnant.  The wine, I’m definitely going back to once the baby is born, but the caffeine, I think I’ll leave behind.

I sold real estate in my early 20’s and started drinking coffee then.  It just seemed like the thing to do since everyone was doing it!  Office meetings, broker opens, meeting a new client, and everything else, seemed to revolve around “getting a coffee”.   I also taught real estate courses for the new victims who wanted their own shake at the real estate world, and THAT involved drinking coffee.  It’s like a requirement.  Like being a cop.  Coffee and doughnuts are a must.

So I plan to leave the caffeine behind not only because I don’t NEED it, but I’m somewhat of a normal person without it.  A little caffeine and I’m in such a hurry I don’t have time for anything.  You know what I mean? When you are so full of energy, you feel like you can do a million things, but you can’t concentrate or focus on just ONE of them, so NOTHING gets done?  No? Well, I do know that.  All too well.

Joe says I wake up like one of those dolls that have eyes that open and close.  One second their closed and the next, wide open with no groggy in between.  It’s sort of true.  I’m asleep.  And then I’m awake and ready to run.  Literally.  I used to exercise first thing when I woke up.  Now I try to fake being normal and hang out withe some decaf or herbal tea before I take off out the door for some exercise.  Why I was ever drinking coffee on top of THAT energy?  I don’t know. Habit.  As they say, habits are hard to break. Especially when I don’t give them ANY thought whatsoever and years later, I’m pouring cups of coffee without even realizing it.

But, talk to me after the baby is born and I’m sleep deprived.  Who knows.  I may just need a sip here and there.