Caffeine Conundrum

I picked up the Buffalo News today and Charity Vogel's section caught my eye..."Caffeine craze stirs thoughts about needs" http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/718156.html Incase you forgot I mentioned in one of my blog posts about how i should just open a coffee shop...oh the blog on "the switch"... because the finacial raping at college was not my cup of joe (haha pun intended). I went on to say how college students are getting criticized for being hooked on caffinee, how we need it, want it yearn for it... but she twist it to a perspective I didn't think of... we can afford it! Think about it, college students and old people are the most loyal customers at coffee shops. These two catagories have time and little money (some less time than others but still more time than a mother of 3 working full time, yea kno). Anyway, everyone needs to get away, and that's what Vogel points out; a mom just "getting away" for 6 dollars a day... it's worth it and its relatively affordable (although 6 is too much for me a day, maybe 6 once a week).

In todays economy it is hard for a student putting themselves through college to find somewhere to just relax, wind down, or socalize (especially if they aren't into the keg parties and beer pong). I realized that I was, and am that student. I'm not a partier in the sense of college parties (i like good clean fun with a drink or two, but perfer to remember my night and not wake up face down on someones lawn with a dog peeing on me (true story). I like the atmosphere at Spot coffee, and have for several years. I get a chai, or jet tea or carmel machioto, and life is grand... I just sit, sip, read, repeat, or find a friend and sit, sip, chat tat tat. Old people are the same way, just with more time. If they are retired and want to get out they aren't going to bar hop or get crazy, they are going to sit down with a coffee or tea, maybe get an indulgently fatty donut and enjoy the morning/afternoon/evening with their other retired crew members. Money shouldn't limit having time to get away, which is why most people with less money to spend on extraneous things than some go to a coffee shop. It doesn't mean we are addicted (although it comes with time, unless you change it up) but that we find it as a sanctuary to relax and enjoy a small, simple, luxury for around $3.

Now I'm really thinking. Since I moved into an apartment in they city, four blocks from my once santuary (Spot Coffee), I find that I rarely go there. I go at the end of the semester during finals just to get out of the house and into the world to do my work, and maybe once in a while with a friend I haven't seen in a while, it's a good location for any situation that could end up akwardly, or so well that it leads to something more exciting!!!

Okay, real quick, I have a improptu promo for a newer coffee shop... It's on the corner of Lexington and Grant (just a couple blocks from my place) and it is amazing!!!!!!! It's called... SWEET_NESS 7 CAFE. All organic, all environmentally friendly, all affordable. It has a wonderful, friendly owner, cool employees, eccentric yet homey feel, and artsy decor not to mention a great Chai soy latte. So here a GREEN CAFE... Coffee conundrum solved!!! I can be green and delight in a great cup of luxury in a great atmosphere with fellows like myself...eccentric, earthy (but still clean), friendly people who care about what happens to the environment...LOVE IT!!!!