Today I'd like to vent a little about something that has irked me for some time. I love coffee, and in the past few months, for one reason or another, I have been cutting back to the point where I gave it up entirely in the interest of being healthier and to better fight the cancer. Now, post surgery, I have been treating myself, more than Dianne thinks I should, to the occasional cup. Recently, on a very hot day in the city, we decided to go to Starbucks for iced cappucinos. I have tried the Tim Horton ones and found them a tad too artificial and terribly over sweet. Starbucks, like a few other coffee vendors, uses real coffee. But the thing that irked me was that most of it was ice. Duh! It's called and "iced" cappucino, dummy. But there was probably no more than half an ounce of actual, real coffee, and for this I had to pay $3.60 or therabouts. For a buck and a half I can get a tall coffee in a decent sized cup and have way more satisfaction. I may have to go back to Tim Hortons and suffer through their saccarined version. At least it's not as expensive and when I last checked, it was still a Canadian company to boot. Or better yet, I'll just save the coffee I make at home, throw it in the fridge for a couple of hours, throw in a glob of ice cream and then sit back and enjoy that refreshing treat on my own patio. Once a doityourselfer, always a doityourselfer.

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