So take my extra huge coffee cup mug and it basically is filled with all of the coffee from the pot. You’d think, awesome, right? Not really. Here’s why:

So you’re sipping from that coffee mug and really it’s too much all at once. By the time you get down to the half way point, you have passed the hot temperature point for the ideal setting for coffee. It’s going lukewarm and soon to be cold. Not good.

Now if you had gotten a smaller cup, you’d be sippin it and by the time you finished it would have still be hot. Now you go back to the coffee pot and pour yourself some more. Only, now the coffee pot, which was still on, has burned down some of the precious brew and left you with a syrupy concentrate. Yuck. Actually it’s not that bad, but I can tell that some of the water has evaporated out and the bitterness has set it.

It is a dilemma, but it is easily solved – get a new coffee pot that has a carafe for the coffee that doesn’t sit under a hot plate. The only problem is that many times these carafe coffee makers are super large, meaning that they make 8 to 12 cups of coffee at a time. Too much for the solo household dweller.

Honestly, I already have 4 different coffee makers. I should just go back to the french press. Guess it’s time to buy a kettle!

I think it was the fact that the day had been stressful at work and because of some situations that occurred it made me think about – What am I doing? Mostly because I felt that from the situation that happened at work, I had a bit of a reactionary response vs. a more metered appropiate response. Not that I had some sort of kicking screaming crying sort of thing, but I did notice how my brain’s ability to think clearly with out emotional distraction or influence stopped after I got the news I got. (Can you tell I don’t want to say what the event was!?!?!) So that triggered this list while sitting at Catalina’s.

Focus-

Keeping Healthy
Continue yoga/running/stretching/ working out
Monitoring what I eat
Monitor alcohol consumption

Moving Out
Reconsider acceptable option of a place
less space is okay
rethink/let go having to have ALL of my funiture in storage put into the new place. Surely I can live without it. What is REALLY needed?

Work
Keep focused on work tasks
Don’t take things personally
Everyone is having a hard time & is stressed as well
What are you learning from these difficult stituations at work?

Relationships
No one night stands/sleepovers
Keep friends – no need to be monopolized or isolated from others

Consciousness
What am I doing?
How am I spending my energy?
When I get energy/energized from something – what am I channeling that energy into? How am I focusing it?
Remember the yoga breath.

So you can now follow me -

@mr_photomatic

Lets see where this takes us…