Caffeine Injected Work Week
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Since joining the working force again and having a 7 am start time, I have started to drink coffee. Not that much at first, maybe a cup every few days. Now every day i have a small coffee to start off my day. Sometimes i need it, sometimes i dont. Either way, i find myself in the cafe here at work buying my small coffee, with milk, sugar and those cool little vanilla creamer things... As I sit here, sipping my coffee.... im watching my fellow coworkers stream in, and i notice that ALL of them have coffee in their hands... some have two or THREE cups.... THREE! So, heres my question. Do you guys need coffee? If you so how much? If not what do you do to wake up? Caffine Pills? Stacker 2? What?
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coffee is the devil. i don't use anything to wake up (b12 vitamins sometimes)i just hate everyone til about 10:00am.
i drink coffee but i try to limit my intake as much as possible. the coffee we brew at work always tastes like crap, so it's a toss-up between saving $ or drinking sludge.
at the gym .. they have this AWESOME coffee...i love it..i drink it before working out ...even if i work out at 10 PM ...which makes no sense
I don't drink coffee but now that I've read this.....I've got a hankering. So Starbucks it is!!!!
Hank Aaron?
I used to have an addiction - I was up to about 6 cups a day. I quit; now I just have starbucks macciatos when I'm in a bad mood.
nope, no coffee for me.
if i need to wake up in the morning, i eat.
like a hot dog or some pizza.. maybe a steak.
anything meaty and delicious and i'm awake.
I pop my supplements and I'm off. No coffee. I almost always swig out of the juice container before I run out the door. Never drink juice at my house, or you run the risk of making out with me--inside the juice container.
I DO love those starbucks frapps in a lil glass bottle, the vanilla ones are BOLD!
An extra shot white chocolate mocha is about the only thing that prevents me from beheading every person in the office in the mornings. Around 10:00am I return to my more human persona.
I just take a shower..drink some OJ and tell everyone to go away until about 4 pm.
I used to drink A LOT of coffee now it's like 1-2 cups a day, and i try to do the half-caff thing so it's not so much caffeine... the stuff gets me so addicted I get TERRIBLE headaches when I don't have coffee. And I get this feeling behind my eyes that feels like they are being sucked into my head. Oh man it sucks. But when I don't drink THAT much coffee, the addiction is not as strong obviously.
they are carrying in three cups or they are refilling?
lol agreed, this needs clarification.
i'm not a coffee drinker at all. its tea or i get my rush from my vitamins.
occassionally i will have a starbucks, as a treat, but i can never finish the whole cup. but it has to be masked with TONZ of sweet stuff
i hate coffee. the smell sickens me since vanessa is always brewing something.she can drink about 10 cups of coffee in the morning without hwaking up. it's gotten worse since she now has her cappacinno machine. i think it just tastes gross.
i only drink it when i ABSOLUTELY need it. up to a few weeks ago i realized i was drinking it every day, so i forced myself to stop. i like it sometimes tho
I don't really like the taste of coffee. My distaste for it has lessened, tho, and I will eat coffee ice cream, or drink frappocinos and stuff. But straight up coffee? Eh, I'll pass.
I typically just have juice or a bowl of cereal in the morning. The shower is what wakes me up.
this only works for those of us who go to work at 10 oclock...
true! I'm out the door by 7AM and whether it's my own cup of folgers or dunkin donuts, I must have a cup or two every morning. The other day, I made the mistake of doing without..turned out to be the weirdest day EVER. I couldn't wait for lunch time to come around, it was horrible! I craved mozzarella stix for some odd reason. I admit it, I'm addicted.
I think Mike's horrible grammar and spelling bears correcting: it's CAFFEINE.
hey.... dwarf... relax... its the next cool way to spell it. Why dont you lay off the CAFFINE!!!!!!!!
Make fun of my height all you want - you changed the title of the article. ;)
yes, to give simpletons such as yourself less to complain about.
Why do you apologize to everyone else for the smallest thing, but you always have to fight with me when you know I'm right?!
hmm, cause i know if i give in a little to you.. you will take a mile... dont blame me for knowing you too well...
Well, I think your vocabulary necessitates correcting. The word "bear" has a meaning of "supports, or holds up", not "needs".
oh no he DIDDDDNTTTTT
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=bear
Check out definition #10.
Mike's grammar warrants correction...
pwned
This typo made me laugh really hard.
haha, awesome
it's not a typo
come on, look how far you had to look down the list (...man I should have looked that far down...)
alright now i used to be all "yea i don't need coffee, hardly ever drink it." Then I moved out and that changed. And now I work at Starbucks - 5 am, me and the espresso machine are buddies.
coffee is the nectar of life
Coffee after dinner with dessert is good. Otherwise it's just a another trendy legal stimulant.
it might stunt my growth...i want to be five-ten like cindy crawford
I'm sucha retart, I took my dad's sucky italian mocha instead of my diet snapple.
But I thought maybe you and Miss Giest might like it?
Maybe you could share it...
aww...hello clueless fans!
the best quote ever from that movie:
She could be a faarrmer in thooose cloooothes
i like when the Cher goes:
"she's totally an important designer."
and the mugger goes:
"and i will totally shoot you in the head."
thats good too.... what about:
Chers Dad: two permits do not equal a license!
or when she says "its a dress" and the dad says, "says who?" and she says, "calvin klein"
great lines all! my favorite line is "you see how picky i am about my shoes and i only put my feet in them" that about sums up my philosophy on dating.
i don't drink coffee for 2 reasons:
1) it tastes like mud...i don't understand how people can swallow it
2) i'm hypersensative to caffeine- if i have anything...even a coke after 2pm, i can't fall asleep at night...and that is the WORST
i USED to be like that... now i can drink just a small and im good for the day.
yeah, just a matter of getting used to it i suppose
I don't drink coffee either.
My reasons are:
I like smooth drinks like soy lattes, creamy hot coco, smoothies. Also at about twelve myself and many of my tiny peers would start the day with a nice hot cup (it was sooo cool) LOL...after about a year we out grew that.
Just can't stand it now, oh well.
bad for your teeth too....i once did a science experiment on it
i love smoothies....try jamba juice!
there's this really good fruit juice drink named fuze. and according to all the things it should do for you, if i drank it everyday i would never die and have tons of children (it's supposed to help reproduction.)
kids, eh? getting ahead of yourself?
Before it hit the market the makers sent a free shipment to the magazine where I was working... It was pretty good but one of the flavors peach mango left this funktified taste in my mouth. BLECH!
functified?? What on earth does that mean??? is that similar to another type of "ified"?
It's as bad as a funky smell but it's a taste so, it just is what it is. When the moment presents itself you'll know when to use it. LOL :-)
i prefer ice coffee over hot coffee anytime even in the winter time. Just taste better to me .
Me too! I don't care if I'm practically frost-bitten..iced coffee all the way.
I wake up at 8:30, so its not a real problem for me. The sun wakes me up.
even during daylight savings... you wake up earlier now, cause its light at like 7
sometimes.
i usually wake up to the spawn of satan cat using my leg as a scratching post
yeah, thats exactly why I don't have a cat. There's a finite number of cats in the world, so if I had one, then someone else wouldn't, and that someone could be you and I don't want you to be without the experience of cat-scratch alarms.
well thanks for your consideration... well we could have another eZabel party and i could provide the Chinese food...
I wish the sun would help...but it doesn't. Half the time I cover my head with a sheet.
Ironicly enough I love the smell of coffee but totally hate the taste.
That's EXACTLY how Adam feels about it. You're not alone. :)
I now have a 5 am start, used to be 4 am,, and I dont drink coffee, I dont like the taste, and sometimes the smell makes me sick, although, i loved working in the coffee shop in metuchen, I dont think I will ever drink coffee let alone need it
working makes you depend on it. I don't have it, but when at work it is like crack...
Thats for sure, I'm so...glad they invented the coffee machine.
yes once again i will be bowing to the altar of ground bean goodness..
There's one type of coffee that one of my co-worker brews that smells like cigarette smoke to me. It's bizarre, but everyone else says it smells really good. I always wonder who's smoking in the building.
I go through moods. I'll get into a tea phase and drink regular tea for weeks, sometimes an herbal tea phase for a few days, and then a coffee phase for a week or two, then start all over again. I don't need either to get going but it's nice to sip a warm beverage at work with the AC blowing down my neck.
I'm NOT a morning person, so coffee gives me what I need to start the day. I've tried tea, but it doesn't do the trick for me.
has anyone ever tried that stacker stuff? It's basically a caffeine pill. I don't drink coffee. I hate how it tastes, but I do like how it smells... Anyway, one time I took this stacker stuff. Just ONE pill (my friend took 3!) and I was SO wired! I thougth I was going to have a heart attack, my heart was beating SO fast and hard! If ian remembers, I was running around the campsite, doing handstand pushups, climbing trees, etc. If I stopped moving, I shook. a lot. Then I think I ran all the way to the beach, and (10 minute car drive??--ian, I forget how long it is, but I think 10 minutes is correct) and swam for hours until I finally crashed. It took about 5 hours to get out of my system. Absolutely horrible.
haha i just picture benny hill running around in that fast forward speed doing crazy stuff.
you seriously ran all the way to the beach??
you don't remember that? everyone else took bikes and I ran. I was out of my mind like angry hulk. Only I was hopped up on a single shot of stacker 2. And not green. Really not like the hulk, just crazy.
TODD SMASH!
BENNY HILL! No. You. Didn't. Hopefully Flomo isn't as randy as Benny Hill.
who says "randy" these days?!--hilarious
I took Stacker once at work and it wasn't pleasant. Fat burner or not--it's probably rough on the heart. I think I know what crystal meth is like now.
I felt like I was on speed.
eXactly
i never wanna try it, i'm scared of what it does to your heart. the only time i've ever had effects like that is when i was like 13, they thought i was getting asthma, so they gave me an inhaler. and i think i took too much, i remember my heart started racing. i went down in my basement and started doing benchpresses, and i was doing more weight then i ever could before.
that's because inhalers contain steriods
eXactly
hahaha... i used to take it... took it for a month... i lost 15 pounds in a week or so... that was hardcore dieting... i got so sick that i stopped.. didnt work its way outta my system for about a month... horrible.
Yikes.....I take 2 Excedrin on an empty stomach, and I go nuts....there's no WAY I'd be able to take that Stacker stuff.
Your stories are always funny with just a whisper of danger I LUV IT!!!
i do that just for you. (dun dunnnnnnn!)
I have a friend in LI who gets to work at 5:30 for her first job (the 'bux) and has coffee there and has to work until 9:30 at night (some place else)...
shes crazy, i couldnt do it...
wow, she's a REAL trooper. she must have two sets of triplets to provide for...or a certain hunk papa.
HAHAHA, man you crack me up. I must unfortunately put water on this, as i have not yet been officially re-released into the wild...