got coffee?

Of course I do. The name of this site pretty much clues you in on the fact that I am a coffee junkie. Not just a caffeine addict- although I am that too. Big difference from Coke and Coffee, though. Coffee is refined. It is grown and ground and brewed. Coke or Pepsi- well, they're just a bunch of chemicals mixed together for the masses. No thanks.

The following is my personal coffee history. A way to show you why I am an addict of and intrigued by coffee and how it relates to this web site:

My first exposure to coffee was when I was about 5 years old. I grabbed my Mom's mug and took a drink of coffee. Yuck! It was disgusting! My Mom is a black coffee drinker and, can you imagine, a drink without sugar for a kid? No way.

For years I didn't drink a drop of the stuff. I was pretty much in the attitude that it tasted bad and, besides, I was a Coca-Cola addict. Why drink coffee when Coke is out there, eh?

For years, I drank nothing but Coke. Mugs upon mugs of it. That is, until I developed a very bad kidney infection. My doctor ordered me to go off of Coke, claiming that was the main instigator of my infection. So, never wanting to experience that pain again, I quit drinking coke. I started drinking nothing but water and juice. An amusing anecdote:

During the time of the coke-induced kidney infection, I was working at Burger King. (Yes, I was a high school drop-out with no future! Imagine that.) I had told all of my co-workers that I had quit coke and they fully supported me. However, as you may surmise, I was heavily addicted to caffeine at the time. So, on my first day back to work, I was in pretty bad shape. I needed a Coke in the worst way. On my lunch break, I hightailed it all the way across town to a little known convenience store. Once there, I bought a can of coke and sucked it down as fast as I could. I was so addicted that I would drive 6 miles away from work to sneak a coke. Sad, but true. (To this day, I do not drink coke, except while in Mexico where it's the only alternative to water.)

Any ways, back to coffee. Around the age of 16, I was going to a lot ot moshes and raves. Well, afterwards, we would hit a diner called "The North Hiway Cafe." We would get some breakfast at 3AM and this is when I really discovered coffee. The funny thing is, North Hiway is a lot like the Double R, except that the waitresses don't wear old fashioned uniforms. ;-)

So, my friends turned me on to coffee. They were all ordering coffee and I was ordering lemonade. *L@me* I decided to try it again. I ordered a cup and took a sip. Yuck! Didn't like it still. Yet, once I added those two glorious elements, cream and sugar, I was good to go. Heaven in a cup. (I don't know if people are aware, but greasy-spoon diners often have the best coffee out there.)

After that, I was always drinking coffee. Now, some naysayers might say that coffee with cream and sugar isn't coffee. Hello. It's coffee. Just coffee with a sweeter flavor. Still tastes like coffee, just not as raw.

When I was 19, I moved in with my best friend. We were both coffee junkies. We were also Super Mario junkies. Also a couple of dirty smokers! Bummer, our house was no smoking. :-( Well, we had a trapdoor in the bathroom that led to a small basement. And since the basement wasn't *really* the house, we smoked down there.

Often times, we would get into a raging Super Mario marathon, down in the basement, where we would play The Lost Levels until we'd beat it. It went on for nights. I say nights, because we both had day jobs. Ew. Any ways, after work, we'd brew a pot o' coffee and chain smoke, drink coffee and play Nintendo all night. Go to bed about 5AM and go to work. This went on as long as we lived together. *L* As you can probably imagine, we drank a lot of coffee.

So, there's a little history. Now, we get to Twin Peaks. Well, I bought the (Euro version) Pilot while working at Hastings. (Great discounts!) As soon as I watched it, I was in heaven. I mean that. It affected me like no show had ever done. (Not even Nothern Exposure, which I absolutely love.) I was, for lack of a better word, riveted. All my friends were like, WTF? *L* The end of the Euro version really turned them off. Not me, though. I wanted more.

So, Christmas comes and my boyfriend buys me the set as a gift. (Now my husband, he really regrets doing that.) I didn't watch them for awhile, don't know why, but when I finally did, Wow, Bob, Wow! I was blown away. I couldn't believe that this wonderful show wasn't still on the air. In my diary, you'll read that I managed to catch a couple of shows when they aired originally, but my Mom didn't like Twin Peaks (Still doesn't.)

I was as impressed by all the coffee drinking going on as the fantastic writing and direction. To this day, I cannot watch Twin Peaks without brewing coffee beforehand. And all the wonderful coffee quotes in the show! Loved them! So, now you know why my Twin Peaks site is so coffee infused. Hope I didn't bore you too much!