Have Cheap Luggage, Will Travel

I get up everyday around 5:30 or 6 to read and drink coffee. My mornings are always great. I even wish I could get up earlier because I love them so much.

One of my friends quit drinking coffee last week and the way I found out is she literally threw herself on the floor of my cube complaining of nausea and headaches. The only way I could help is sprite, 2 aspirin and a good back rub. As I was nurturing my friend back to health, it occurred to me that I could be in the same position if I tried to quit drinking coffee. So, I decided to find out.

I am now on day two with only one small relapse of a ½ caff vanilla latte last night. Let me tell you, I understand what was happening to my friend. My neck is killing me, I have a constant dull headache and I have this nagging feeling of wanting to go back to bed all the time. Weird. I had no idea my body was this in love with caffeine.

Just for grins I consulted Google on the side effects of consistent caffeine intake. Nervousness, irritability, anxiety, muscle twitching, insomnia and heart palpitations. Hmmm…Here are even some people that are campaigning to have caffeine withdrawal classified as a psychiatric disorder.

Well, at least I know why I am crazy today.




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My favorite prayer is to thank God that this is my life and to ask that those words will move me 50 years from now as much as it does today. Sometimes when I pray that, I can’t stop the grateful tears from streaming down my face.

In case you think I am crazy, I was not looking to find a real God a few years ago but He was looking for me. Through a series of events that I can only explain by attributing it to divine intervention, my life now is so full that I can’t hardly believe that it is mine and this is just the beginning.

I think about this a lot but I thought about it almost every second of this weekend. Some would say that true friendship is hard to come by but I seem to have an overabundance of wonderful people in my life.

I spent the whole weekend knee deep in some thought provoking conversations and some conversations that made my cheeks hurt from laughing so much. I haven’t laughed that much in a long time.

I have seen some pretty amazing things happen over the last year that will not allow me to ever deny the existence of a real God but this weekend reminded me that he cares about all things in my life, including the desire for some really great friends.

So let’s tip our glasses to great friends that make your brain work and your cheeks hurt. If you don’t have friends like this, get out there and get some because it is not worth missing.