I always think I’ll drink a third cup of coffee in the morning. Coffee is an important part of my day, especially my homeschool day, because it gives me a personality and enthusiasm. The third cup of coffee is a goal for which I strive daily. I fix an 8-cup pot in the morning, which pours just slightly over three of my Longaberger coffee mugs. The pink coffee mug holds a central role on my desk.
Despite my love for coffee, however, I seldom get around to drinking that third cup of coffee. In fact, the two I do drink tend to be rather tepid before I finish them. This is partially by design — I don’t like my coffee scalding hot anyway, and the kids have a bad habit of knocking my coffee all over themselves or my lap, so I put an ice cube into it as soon as I pour it — but partially because someone is always interrupting my coffee-drinking.
By the time I finally get around to that third cup of morning coffee, the coffee has started to burn in the pot and it’s noon and too close to afternoon coffee time to fix another pot of coffee, because preparing three pots of coffee before 3pm just makes it look like I have a problem. Sometimes I try to get around all of this by pouring the extra cup into a go-cup and stashing it elsewhere, but it inevitably ends up ice cold and barely sipped. A waste of two scoops of coffee grounds. A waste of a perfectly good cup of coffee.
Today is one of those rare days when I actually managed to pour the third cup. It sits, unfinished, on my desk, room temperature. I’m drinking it anyway, because sometimes, even a small a win is still a win.
I completely understand this problem. I, too, have returned to a full cup of tepid coffee. My solution is to drink it iced. I pour the rest of my coffee into a pitcher and then later in the day pour it over ice and add some milk. Perfect.
I’ve given up caffeine though. Can you believe it? Sadly, now all my coffee is mediocre decaf.
Oh, that is just WRONG.
LOL. The iced coffee or the mediocre decaf? ;-p
The mediocre decaf.
Nissin travel cups! I love mine, it keeps my coffee nice and warm for hours. Not nearly as cute to be sure, but I’ll take nice warm coffee and a spill-resistant top over cute any day.
Please don’t turn into one of those women (*cough* My MIL *cough*) who saves her coffee in a measuring cup from day to day. She’ll brew a pot, and just because she doesn’t drink it all and hates to waste it, she saves it. She’ll nuke it the next morning and drink it. Her kids and spouses have taught her that it’s really okay to waste that fifteen cents of coffee and water to brew a fresh pot every morning.
Just blech.
No, no. I will never do that. I hate nuked coffee. Must be fresh.
ooh – awesome hat. What yarn is that?
It was actually the start of a pair of longies. Here’s what they looked like completed:
I have a travel mug from Coffee Bean that keeps coffee hot for hours. Love it!!
Get the new Kleen Kanteen Wide Mouth cup, keeps my tea just as hot as when I put it in my cup for 6hrs
Is it insulated on the outside?
Mmmmm. Coffee. Do you drink yours black?
We used to make a pot of coffee a day and I’d have at least two cups, but lately I can’t even bring myself to finish one. I don’t know what’s going on.
Yup, black with an ice cube.
I can’t do that. Maybe if it’s completely iced. I like milk and sugar too much.