In Atlanta, there's a great tea shop called Teavana. The blends and varieties they have are fantastic. I rapidly replaced the smell of coffee with the smell of these teas. That helped. I was able to replace the taste with different tastes, including my now-favorite rooibos chai. Secondly, the side effects were so bad, that I really didn't want to go back to it. Thirdly, the music voice teacher at the school had been very insistant that to preserve our voices, we needed to rehydrate quite often, even more if we drank coffee. Having a cardiologist brother in-law was also probably pretty important, as he saw when I had a bad reaction to a Starbuck's drink. Finally, I just got it through my thick skull that I simply didn't have an option. It was not worth living through those attacks.
Call it being scared or simple will power, I don't know. Once I made the decision, I had no looking back.
I drank coffee ever since I was four, and I love southern tea. I just know now that these don't love me.
Cheers,
Lavabe
P.S. Now my biggest worry is waking up early and posting before my trivia neurons get firing. Jimmy Dean/Jerry Reed ... same guy, right?
Devildeac, did you realize that you're only 5 posts behind Billybreen in this thread? At your current rate you can pass him pretty soon!
You're never too late on the LTE.
So far we've got:
Me on the bass
Bostondevil on piano
DukieinKansas on the handbells
Lavabe on the reeds
DevilAlumna can play piano and sing, and a bit of the violin
YmoBeThere has no rhythm and has not mentioned singing abilities. So I'm thinking roadie.
Can you step in and play the tenor recorder? That sounds pretty awesome. You could also hook up on handbells, that might be sweet to have double the handbell.
Kinda crazy how the phrase, "gotta have more cowbell" is now in the cultural lexicon, isn't it? I LOVE it!
I'm working tonight, so I can carry this thread on for a bit longer -- I'll be in the office at least until midnight PDT.
Maybe one of those posts, I'll figure out how much ground we've made up on BB. Y'all have really picked up the posts in the past two days -- VERY impressive work.
I'm part of a quartet that is going to lead music at a gathering in 2 weeks. As we were putting things away after practice, I discovered that we have a cowbell available in the closet behind the chancel area. I can't believe we haven't found a way to work it into the music. you can always use more cowbell.
Hey, off topic question for ya'll.
I've seen folk talk about the number of posts in a thread by a specific user but I cannot, for the life of me, find this statistic. Where are you getting these numbers?
It's a good thing I don't try to walk and chew gum at the same time.
You have set me off on my first attempt at PWing. I'm procrastinating on typing minutes from a finance meeting to try to get over 100 posts.