I had a cup of coffee AND I have been listening to Christmas music.
Granted, I should hardly be allowed to call what I drank a "cup of coffee." It was not a whole cup of coffee and it did have a very liberal amount of soy milk mixed in; however, it was good. Quite good. I stopped drinking coffee about a year ago due to anxiety that I had been experiencing - hoping that the lessening of caffeine and acidic substances in my diet would, in turn, decrease the amount of anxiety that I was going through. I'm not sure if this hypothesis proved itself true or not but Michael has been wanting me to try a cup for some days now and today I caved. I do like coffee very much and decided that if I just had a little bit and diluted it enough with soy milk I should be okay.
As far as the Christmas music goes.... I believe I usually make myself wait until after Thanksgiving to let myself listening to it. This year, however, I just couldn't wait. Perhaps it's because it's mine and Michael's first Christmas married? I'm not sure, but I do know that I love Christmas music.
Maybe it's because of the upcoming Christmas season - or maybe not - but I have been in the mood to bake a lot lately. I've made beer bread twice since I posted about it initially and, today, I made pumpkin bread and muffins. I LOVE pumpkin bread and one of my contributions for Thanksgiving this coming Thursday is pumpkin bread; however, since I don't eat sugar I wanted to experiment making it with agave nectar today (rather than experimenting on the masses later this week). It turned out fine though not as sweet as usual. You're supposed to used 2/3 cups of agave per 1 cup of sugar but I didn't have quite enough agave, but it's still okay (great with some butter spread on it). I think I might experiment with honey also before making the final batch (which is fine with me - it makes the house smell wonderful while it's baking!).
Yesterday, at Goodwill I found this great pitcher along with two glass containers (I had been wanting two glass containers for cotton balls and Q-tips after reading this article in one of my Country Living magazines) and FOUR blank canvases.
It's been a good weekend. :)
