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There she goes
There she goes again
Racing through my brain
And I just can’t contain
This feeling that remains

- from There She Goes by The Boo Radleys

I first heard that song in the Mike Myers movie So I Married an Axe Murderer.  I didn’t know at the time that it was about heroin (naïve little me).  I’ve been fighting this coffee addiction for a while now, and I think that the song can be applied to caffeine, too.  You can read the rest of the Coffee Chronicles by clicking these links:

The Unthinkable: Giving Up Coffee

Progress Report: Giving Up Coffee, Part 2

Down to One Cup of Coffee

I used to get a real pick-me-up from drinking coffee.  It fueled my workouts, jump-started my mornings, stirred me up in the afternoon, and kept me company while my newborn son screamed from colic pains all night.  It kept me awake on the four-hour drives to and from business meetings at my company’s headquarters.

There she goes
There she goes again
Pulsing through my veins
And I just can’t contain
This feeling that remains

But coffee hard a dark side.  It made me cranky.  It kept me awake rather than alert.  I wasn’t getting enough sleep as it was, and coffee compounded the problem.  My fuse grew shorter.  I would sweat alot.  ALOT.  Having a cup of coffee in the afternoon usually justified a trip to the candy machine for some fat pills.  I started looking like Tweedledee.

So I decided to try a new lifehack, and to cut coffee out of my life completely.  I can happily report that my experiment has been successful.  Today marks one week with not even a drop of coffee.  I’m satisfied with my progress, and hope to keep the caffeine monkey off of my back for good.

So long, sweet java!  It’s been nice knowing you.  But your negatives have come to outweigh your positives, and it’s time to say goodbye.

There she goes
There she goes
There she goes

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