Living the Dream

So Caitlin and I have this little problem: we’re both hard core caffeine addicts. This probably wouldn’t be so much of a problem as a way to casually meet and discuss the recent events in our lives whilst enjoying a warm, tasty, comforting beverage, except for the fact that I pretty much live with her over the weekends. Which means that our coffee drinking sessions are not merely limited to a couple of hours on a specific day, but rather last each day, all day throughout the weekend.

That’s a lot of coffee.

Especially since we don’t limit our coffee intake to home brewed Bodum goodness. We have to go out for specialty coffees. Which are not only ridiculously expensive but are also full of unwanted calories. And our particular favourite is probably more calorie-laden than most:

The Coffee Bean’s White Chocolate Dream.

That’s right White Chocolate Dream.

It’s a latte with a perfect splash of, well, white chocolate. A definite “don’t touch me” moment if I ever had one.

We even have a nickname for the experience of purchasing and enjoying this beverage. We call it “living the dream”, which I’m sure sounds ridiculous and overdone and a whole host of less than favourable adjectives, but that’s only because you haven’t had the opportunity to “live the dream”. Even non-coffee drinkers couldn’t help but enjoy this experience.

Now I’m going to let you in on a little secret: I haven’t been blogging about Korea lately, or much of anything really, not because I’m lazy, not because I’m uninspired, but rather because I haven’t been doing much of anything Korea-related.

I’ve been drinking coffee.

Caitlin and I have been spending the majority of our weekends this past month laying around her apartment, drinking coffee, watching movies and planning our quickly-approaching (though not quickly enough) trip to India. I mean, you can’t really fault us. It’s cold and, well, we’d prefer to hibernate.

Except that we’ve recently come to realize that we actually do need to start doing things, if for no other reason than to prepare for this trip of ours. Plus, if Caitlin ever manages to retain her passport for an entire weekend we would love to see the DMZ before we leave.

Plus, we’ve also decided that we must have a case of the winter blues and getting out and about will probably do nothing but make us feel better.

So what I’m trying to say is that I hope I’m going to be posting more often in the near future as I may actually have something to write about. I’m not promising anything though, seeing as I’m turning out to be rubbish at keeping my word...