I am at work...

[shadowedge613]

No wonder all of you guys update so damn much. this "work" thing is rediculusly boring...

So an update. I tried to go cold turkey yesterday on caffine. I suddenly relized just how much I had been taking in, and decided it was past time to scale it down a bit. (I'm British. Not really, but it amused me.) So no cup of Twinings Earl Grey with cream and sugar. No plum green tea with lunch. No soda.

and I was a mess! I never woke up, and instead stumbled around in a daze, yawning and craving the caffine. All day. So I promised my self a single soda when I got home from work. With rum in it. (So that I could have all of my vices in one place.)Then I spent the rest of the day lusting after that coke.

So I get home, and make dinner for role playing people, and hold off on the coke, because I have remebered that Sam has promised to make coffee for us: magic coffee. So I have my half a cup, and can feel the caffene rushing into my body. I then become jittery and hyper, and James confinscates my coffee cup.

So I decide that I'm going to try to scale it down before swearing off. So I have had my cup of tea this morning, and I might have a soda when I get home from work. With rum in it.

James laughed at me, and claimed that he had seen people go through withdrawl from illegal drugs not being as bad as I am. To which i replied: why do you think i don't do most other vices? I am very careful about how much and when I drink, and as for smoking... well between my oral proclivites and the addictivness of nicotine... I stay away.

So amuse me ya'll: I'm a junky for caffene trying to quit.

Comments

green tea....

[lastwordy-mcgee.livejournal.com]

You might be interested in knowing that the health benefits of green tea do outweigh the caffeine "issues." I personally can't stand the taste of decaf, so I just do my caffeine in moderation.

a great herbal tea that has no caffeine but is a wonderful substitute is Roastaroma by Celestial Seasonings. Bengal Spice (same company) is another awesome sub.

PS email me.

Re: green tea....

[shadowedge613.livejournal.com]

I do love my green tea... but at this point I'm more proving that I can cut out caffene... I have issues with being chemically dependant.

and I do love herb tea. But it is toally not the same.

Re: green tea....

[lastwordy-mcgee.livejournal.com]

Not at all the same, I agree. But if it's coffee taste as well as caffeine that you dig, those two teas are good subs.

Re: green tea....

[shadowedge613.livejournal.com]

I lack your email address. if you post it, I will write it down and then delete it. and James is off for the day, so I cannot get it from him.

[gkingsley.livejournal.com]

Caffeine withdrawal can cause headaches, as well. You're better off (and will be more successful) if you wean yourself off gradually.

[shadowedge613.livejournal.com]

I sorta figured that I'm going to have to wean. If I'm going to not kill everything. Or sleep all the time. But so far no headaches. For that matter, everyone, from my chiropractor to the massage therapist think that I should be having massive headaches from the way my neck is messed up. So at this point I think I might have an anti-headache field around me.

[gkingsley.livejournal.com]

I need one of those fields. That would rock.

My grandmother never had a single headache in all the days of her life, and didn't understand when we granddaughters would complain of them. I'm pretty sure she didn't think they actually existed.

[lastwordy-mcgee.livejournal.com]

My dad used to believe that about cramps too. The fucker.

[gkingsley.livejournal.com]

If it has to do with the uterus and "that time of the month," all men should keep their mouths firmly shut. Anything they say, besides "can I get you more chocolate, dear?" can only lead to ruin.

Let's make that one of the Laws of Fongoolia.

[lastwordy-mcgee.livejournal.com]

I had to call my dad once and let him know we'd be leaving to visit him a few hours later than originally thought, due to me being temporarily down with ovulation cramps. He asked what that meant; I said that I was having terrible abdominal pains and was often rushing to the bathroom, but that it would pass shortly and then we could get on the road. My dad was silent for a moment, then, in all seriousness, said, "That happened to me the other day. Maybe I was having ovulation." I very politely let him know that in order to suffer from ovulation pains, one must possess ovaries. To his credit, he burst out laughing at what an idiot he was.

amen, Sistah!

[shadowedge613.livejournal.com]

Yes.

Although, to be fair, women must never mock the men for thier difficulties related to "seminal pressures."