My Morning Coffee

So I have a pretty confusing house in the morning. I share space with my wife and our two young daughters, age 6 and 3. While I take all of 20 minutes to prepare myself for the day, they all take some extra maintenance time. I guess I can't buzz their hair off with the clippers like I do mine. :(

Anyway, I'm also the chef of the house so I prepare breakfast and pack whatever lunches need to be made for the day. We're out the door by 8:00 to drop off at daycare, summer day camp, and head over to the office where my wife and I run a small and quickly growing business.

So I have a couple morning rituals that help me put my brain in the right place among the chaos that is 3 females, regardless of age, preparing themselves and doing what girls do in the morning. First, I make myself a nice cup of bold coffee in a French press. It makes me feel good knowing that the coffee is brewing for precisely 4 minutes and then I will have something to attenuate the noise in the rest of the house. Ahhh, that's better.

Next, every morning I pick up my 3 string guitar, the aptly named El Segundo, head out to the back porch and play a little. What? There's a house attached to this porch? There are actually 3 girls in there? Wouldn't have known if you didn't tell me.

Well, today was a little extra hectic since I slept to 6:30 and my wife has a nice summertime cold that kept her in bed until past 7:00. I didn't get my back porch playing time and I felt worse than if I had skipped the coffee. In desperation, while the girls were fighting about what sneakers they were not going to wear, I sidled up to the CBG, plucked out 12 bars and a turnaround, set it down and walked out the door. Ahhhh . . .it attenuates the chaos regarless of dosage.

Happy morning, all.

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Bad Finger (Eric) August 10, 2011 at 2:33pm

Thanks slim. A few rituals are the only way to keep the family chaos somewhat contained. Coffee and CBG in the morning always sets the day right.
swampapple slim August 10, 2011 at 2:10pm

You have masterd your houshold and get to set head strait with 12 bars you could say it dont get better most of the time like guitars they dont ALWAYS sound rite but it will later good luck with fam and buis you got a nice sounding ritual mite even get better who knows for now i like it good job especially a speck of time for cbg to get your day off. rite on Slim
Bad Finger (Eric) July 14, 2011 at 12:42pm

I used to work with a couple guys in the executive fish bowl that would pop those mints like jujubes at the movie theater. We had an "Executive Management Leadership Trainer" that commented on the "use of caffeine by upper management and executives" at our our company. Interesting. Her self-described personal history made the comment somewhat amusing, but I'll just leave it at that. I wouldn't want to offend any present or recovering coke heads that might read this blog post.
Seaman Jay July 14, 2011 at 10:50am

Two words: "Penguin Mints"

First - it maintains the caffeine saturation. Then - when emptied - makes a perfect resonator for a small canjo/diddley...
Bad Finger (Eric) July 14, 2011 at 10:40am

I guess it didn't work as well as I had hoped.

I decided I needed some more caffeine at the office and we have one of those single cup Keurig machines. I put in a new K-Cup, hit the button and watched it brew directly into the spill tray. I stood right there. And watched it. Brew right into the spill tray. The whole cup. To the last drop. And I watched it happen.

One of our employees has a husband who is a stand up comedian. He must get lots of good material off us.

Where's my CBG?
Seaman Jay July 14, 2011 at 10:25am

I started to enjoy the story, then I realized it's not really about the coffee... ;-)

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