prompts for september 2026

How do you take your coffee or tea? Or dirty soda?

Last evening after Taz, Cordelia and Baby RR got back from down south and Taz had eaten, he asked, are you guys having coffee tonight? I laughed and explained to Taz that Clint and I recently gave up our evening coffee and exchanged it for tea.

He rolled his eyes. I said yep, we’re super duper boring now. Our one vice, coffee with hazelnut creamer before bed, is gone. We rarely even have coffee in the afternoon anymore.

We don’t drink alcohol, don’t even keep any in the house. We don’t smoke pot or cigarettes. Absolutely nothing fun. At least we used to be rebels and drink coffee every night before bed but now we don’t even do that. The only reason I stopped is that I had been waking up at night, sometimes unable to go back to sleep for over an hour and then one night I missed my coffee and slept great.

I know you’re thinking, “ya think??” as in “duh”. But coffee never seemed to affect my sleep before, honest. And maybe it was a one-off but I think if I took a broader look at my quality of sleep sans coffee, it does make a difference.

So since I’ve gone off the sugar again, about three weeks ago, I now have my coffee black in the morning. I would have never thought in a million years I could stomach black coffee but I guess I’m finally a full, real, actual adult.

I mostly opt for peppermint tea or chamomile which I also drink black because I could never see adding milk/cream or sugar to herbal tea. Seems weird. I have had orange pekoe tea with milk and sugar and it’s not bad.

I did buy a milk frother recently so on the weekend I did make an afternoon homemade latte, which was pretty good. Coffee/steamed milk/foam on top and then I sprinkled some cinnamon on it. I am tempted to make a homemade brown sugar syrup to mix in for next weekend though, when I get wild again and have afternoon coffee instead of tea.