I love me some coffee.  But only good coffee, expensive coffee.  Funny, I'm like that with beer too.  Wine? Not so much, don't get me wrong,  I'd like to buy the expensive stuff all the time but I can't really afford that so yeah, I've been known to drink it out of a box.  Right, like you haven't. 
Coffee is one of those things in life that just makes me happy, the smell, the bitter taste, the shape of the mugs with the steaming goodness coming from it.  Some weekend mornings, I feel like a Folgers commercial.  I know we've discussed what a gem I can be in the morning, so George will brew up coffee for me every single morning and sometimes (probably when I've actuall slept) I'll awake to the smell in the house, smile and stretch like a cat.  It's comforting and wakes me up and with baseball season upon us, you can just bet that Starbucks is going to be getting too much of my money.  Nothing gets me through a cold and soggy baseball game like a venti coffee. 

And then there is traveling......anywhere but the west coast, you really have to look for a Starbucks.  Here, they are on two sides of every strip mall, in every grocery store, they pop up everywhere.  Travel to the east coast and they think Dunkin Donuts coffee is the shit.  I am SERIOUS, like that's where they tell you to go.  It's exhausting and gross, DD coffee sucks, fyi.  Even in Vegas, though I hear its getting better, I had to hunt around for a starbucks, ask drunk people (yes at 8am) where to go and the only one was in the NYNY, Really?  I suppose if you spend enough time anywhere, you'd find a decent cuppa joe and I'd really like to try the Dean and Deluca (thank you Felicity) chain in New York, but I bet it'd be hard to beat Starbucks and Stumptown.

Good to the last drop.

xoxo