How I get through a day....

I have a confession to make. I rarely sleep the recommended # of hours of sleep "they" say we are supposed to have. In fact a long night of sleep for me is 6 hours. Most often I get 5, 5 1/2 hours. So how do I make it through the day is a question I get asked often.

Let me answer that with this picture! It's a Venti Latte with mocha drizzle. mmmm. However I can't justify or afford 2 or 3 of these a day! So these are a treat. Most often I just drink large mugs of strong coffee...for the better part of the morning. Sometimes one in the afternoon. On days like today I have a small one at supper.

The really crazy thing about the amount of coffee I drink now is this: it's not even close to the amount of coffee I drank 10 years ago!!! Back when I used to work as the administrator at the Alliance church in Fort McMurray my day typically looked like this in terms of coffee:

8:30 a.m. - stop at Tim Horton's on way to work for an extra large coffee.
9:00 - make 12 cup pot of coffee at the office
9 - 3:00 - drink whole pot of coffee, sometimes two
3:15 - swing through Tim Horton's for another extra large coffee

After that my consumption would depend on my activity. Sometimes I'd have one or two cups of coffee in the evening, sometimes what I had drank during the day would be it for the day.

Crazy I know. I had to cut back when I got pregnant with Emily....but I still drank way more than I should have. I've been trying to increase my intake of water and decrease my intake of coffee...so far I've managed to drink about the same of each. Sigh. Maybe someday I'll be able to say that WATER is how I get through the day.....