Me & Houbidah

go to the coffeeshop on a daily basis. We get two medium 16 oz coffees. I pepper mine with lots of cocoa, cinnamon and 1/2&1/2 - actually, he prepares them - I just can't get them to taste like he does. Plus I mind too much the awful look the baristas give me for using up all the cocoa instead of just springing 2 more bucks to get a mocha --

anyway, he just adds a shitoad of 1/2&1/2 for his coffee because he's apparently allergic to cinnamon. But he adds so much dairy that, basically, Hou's coffeecup is an exercise in 'would you like some coffee with your cream?' Literally a stick o' butter in a cup.

obviously, there exists a great need in differentiating between one coffee cup and another - he gets a swig of the wrong one and starts soon itching like mad, I get a sip of the wrong one, and it's crazy dairy overload!!! So pretty quickly I began sorta doodling on my cups so I could tell the difference.

this, my friends, is the sole raison d'etre behind this blog: to keep track of all the coffeecups I drink and toss away in a given day. Were it not for the salmonella, I'd try to keep a little shrine. As it is, the online blog shrine needs suffice.