Coffee-grinder-aphobia

Coffee Bean MachineWe finally made it through the award winning coffee from the Clubside Breakfast Time folks this week. When you’re out, you need more.

We wandered over to Capers on Robson St. last night, thinking that we’d go for more organic stuff because we really loved the one pound of Olympia Coffee Roasting Co. beans, fair trade and organic goodness. Although, the beans were a slight issue, but I found that a blender works for grinding them. I also found that I might have ruined the blender.

Anyway, we hunted down the coffee section and found that they pretty much had only whole bean coffee, aside from one brand that we couldn’t tell much about other than it was just coffee. Dark, medium, or what? These things matter.

Finally, after a half hour of looking at various, organic brands and almost giving up to head to the grocery store to buy already ground coffee, we watched some random woman go throught the process of grinding beans with the machine in the store. After learning what we could through the corners of our eyes, we gave it a shot.

Capers Coffee GrinderLow and behold, it freaking worked! For so long I have feared making a complete idiot of myself using the in store coffee grinder, worrying that I would send beans everywhere or a big pile of grounds on the floor. That’s not to say that we didn’t have some issues, but once we actually got the machine to give us our beans, the grinding was pretty easy after that.

Vancouverites love their coffee. I’m slowly becoming one of them, but it all works out in the end. I’m getting more and more Vancouverites to love margaritas. Poncho’s ain’t half bad either.

Thank You, Clubside Breakfast Time!

Coffee Award!Much apologies to Cosmo for not letting him know sooner, but the humega special award that I won from the Clubside Breakfast Time Podcast came to us about a week ago. Very sweet!

Thanks so much, guys!

Now I wonder if Bill can find me something I can ghetto together to grind these coffee beans down. Maybe a computer hard drive cobbled together with a rock tumbler or… something.

there ain’t no control of things you take for granted

UBC Museum of AntropologyWe’ve been out of coffee for the past couple of days, and I felt it something fierce. In the midst of the budgeting that we’re doing these days, we take care to not over spend and do our grocery shopping in moderation. Add to the fact that the Clubside Breakfast Time Podcast is sending us a pound of dark roast coffee that I won soon, it doesn’t make too much sense to go out and buy some. Those guys down in Olympia, WA are pretty alright to me. All it took for me to win was to email them within two days after they published one of their episodes. Pretty freaking cool, eh?

Still, being out of coffee in the past few days, it hit me hard. I started to get a headache and attributed that to a lack of water intake from all the running that I do through the week. Then I felt tired and sluggish. It wasn’t until we were sitting on the couch two nights ago, waiting till Laura called to meet her from some Hon’s goodness, that it hit me. Six o’clock and I couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore. Took a little nap and felt better, but it makes me feel bad that such a craving can leave me so dependent on something so tasty.

Had to run a few errands this morning in preparation for the wedding and picked up a coffee from Blenz with Rebecca. Combine that with a couple of cookies this morning and I totally have the shakes. I’m on overload now.