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first a disclaimer - i LOVE coffee. i drink it often and up until very recently i was of the opinion a cup of coffee could not be too black.

i was wrong. horribly, painfully, wrong. now that i've said that, on with my story...

yesterday (valentines day) i wanted to get the floors mopped and the house cleaned up early so i could enjoy the evening. we often get company on saturdays and i wanted the house to look nice.

i was feeling a bit fuzzy so i asked my sweetie to make me some coffee in the capachino maker. when he makes coffee in the regular coffee pot it's usually too light for my taste, i feel you should not be able to read a newspaper through a cup of coffee - but i digress. we recently acquired a bag of coffee from somewhere, i'm not sure where (maybe death herself dropped it off) but this stuff is evil!

it's actually called mayan black onyx and it comes out of the coffee pot as black as india ink. we call it insanity coffee. this stuff is so dark it can actually suck light out of the room. the first time i tried it i added a LOT of milk and sugar to it and it barely changed color. i still couldn't drink it. i suspect that if you poured a full glass of milk and put just a few drops of this stuff in it, the milk would turn black.

however, i needed an energy boost yesterday so i tried it again. i really shouldn't have. about half an hour after i drank it, i felt like i was vibrating. i went and started the floors - midway through i started to feel dizzy and the vibrating had intensified. i stopped and laid down for a little bit hoping i'd feel better, and after a while i got up and finished mopping. the house looked nice but i felt like warm runny dog snot.

i tried munching some crackers, hoping to settle my stomach. no dice. i still felt horrible. then my friends arrived and i was feeling very much like i was going to barf. i decided to go lay back down again and left my sweetie in charge of entertaining our friends.

i managed to fall asleep and woke up a couple of hours later feeling MUCH worse. my head was just pounding. so i shuffled out into the living room, past our friends and grabbed some aspirin for my headache. i mumbled greetings and then returned to bed. very shortly after that i KNEW i was going to be sick. after not one but two dashes to the bathroom i again laid back down. my head was pounding and i was miserable. i finally managed to fall asleep again and didn't wake up until about 3am but i was feeling better. long story short - i slept through valentines. what a pisser. i will never drink that stuff again - ever. i advise anyone else to avoid it as well....

so that was my valentines day, lol. i surely hope yours was better.

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