birmingham mornings

the top of coffee crumb crummy whateverthefuck cakes is REALLY sugary. here at work we lightly kick around the idea of better choices vs. not better choices of goody-yummies from starbucks. hi, my name is peggy and i work in birmingham and go to starbucks everyday. for a while i just chalked it up to having a non-operative coffeemaker at home. but today, having rose at 5.30 am to type until i had to come here, i had ample time to drink the necessary amount of coffee for a morning peggy, but still -- i had to go to starbucks for a tea. need the morning warmth. ok, i'll chalk it up to that. and the crummy cake [ok it was yummy not crummy], honey o's at 6 am can only hold a peggy over for so long! ok, the point is that i go to starbucks every day i work, at least once. oh yeah, i forgot to add that in there. if i work open to close, it's real hard to just go once. things like this are all about blood sugar and caffeine "highs" [depends on if you're chasing the dragon or not...anyone ever remember the caffeine dragon? {note to self: remember more dragons}], up and down, get high and come down and recover. what is the recover? i don't even know. recovering from up or down? anyway, but there are way worse businesses to support -- did you know that? starbucks, you're bad to me in a unfortunately sweetie good way [the marble loaf is nearly in my personal food pyramid], but you're not THAT bad. it's better than smoking, and i can say that with 100% confidence. starbucks is also a LEAN company, meaning that they have gone through training given by my partner-in-crime's place of employment. starbucks and birmingham, though, is a pretty lethal little combo meal.

it's a wilco morning. i guess. i don't really like wilco that much. i'd rather be listening to beach house. or maritime. hey, if you like pop like AT ALL and haven't listened to maritime, you're doing yourself a disservice. trust me. it's ALMOST to the point of like how if you like mellow music and you haven't listened to iron and wine, you're totally blowing it. it's a few centimeters away from that.

i have some pictures to post, but i'm really lagging on getting some of the nice things done in life right now. i'm catching up on the weekend, promise. i finished the tiny tote crochet bag, and there'll be pictures of that. in the last month i got a new camera, a laptop, a food processor, a crock pot and a fancy coffeemaker -- kind of overwhelming! it's kind of under control almost, actually, believe it or not.

are we supposed to be thinking of spring already? i can't stop thinking about flowers covered by snow.