Die Habit, Die!

I found my cat playing with a mouse this morning. The mouse wasn't dead, but it looked scared as hell. Even when I picked it up with a paper towel to put outside, it wasn't moving very much and I didn't see any visible wounds, so I guess it was just stunned. This event puts making an appointment with the vet a top priority. My cat really needs to get all it's shots.

I'm tackling the challenge once again. I'm going to limit, or eliminate coffee/caffeine from my diet. Of all the habits I have tried to kick, eliminating caffeine has been the only one able to elude the boot. The longest I have ever gone without coffee was barely two weeks. It takes about 40 days of no caffeine before your body is 100% caffeine free, which means my body hasn't been caffeine free since I started drinking coffee! I had no coffee at all yesterday and the day before and during those two days I experienced the well known "caffeine headaches". They were so bad I couldn't even think. Caffeine headaches happen because caffeine makes your blood run through your veins faster than usual. When your body suddenly stops getting a steady supply of caffeine, your blood has to work harder to pump blood to your brain, and the other parts of your body. This is what causes the headaches and the groggy mornings that feel as if you only had 1 hour of sleep, even when you had 8 or 9 hours. The headaches started again this morning but early this afternoon they subsided. I'm just hoping that was the worst of them.

I've been buying a tall green tea from Starbucks instead of coffee. It's $1.30, an unnecessary expense yes, but if that unnecessary expense saves me from a $5 a day habit, then so be it. Caffeine messes up your body in a big way and in more ways than one. Sleep cycles are screwed up, moods are changed, money is wasted, and worst of all a dependency is created. Besides, water rocks.

I probably picked a bad time to shift my workout schedule, with eliminating coffee and all, but what the hell. Working out in the morning makes the rest of the day much easier to get through. I don't have to worry about conserving energy for my workout at night.

The guy that was going to do work on my Ware street property said it was "too much work" for him after he saw it, and he wasn't interested in tackling it. My real estate agent, Paul Brouillette, gave me the number of another person who does that kind of work. I called him this morning and he's going to come take a look at the property tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully I can just pay him to do the work I need to have done, instead of spending the next few weekends doing it myself.