I’m sure you are aware of my major slight obsession with Starbucks, and if you aren’t, well…let’s just say the friendly baristas at one (of the twenty) Starbucks in our area know exactly how I like my coffee, before I even tell them. (Venti non-fat, no whip, mocha with extra foam – thank you very much. In case you are coming to visit and would like to bring a hostess gift, a Grande version will also be acceptable.)

But on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I usually take my laptop and go out to work, since it has been proven that working from the next room while the sitter is with the girls, well, that just doesn’t really “work” – for me, at least. So, Starbucks it is. I like the taste of their coffee and they don’t mind while I hunker down for a few hours in one of the tables near a power source for my laptop.

I was very excited when I saw the Starbucks Oracle (thanks …And the Duck Said!) and what did this Oracle have to say about me and my personality, according to my drink?!

I’m…high maintenance.

I am so very much in denial about this forecasting. I pride myself on being very low maintenance, in fact. This is what it said for me:

You pride yourself on being assertive and direct; everyone else thinks you’re bossy and arrogant. You’re constantly running your mouth about topics that only you would find interesting. Your capacity for wasting other people’s time is limitless. Your friends find you intolerable, that’s why they’re plotting to kill you.

Also drinks: Water. Bottled, chilled, with four ice cubes, a twist of lemon, in a crystal glass.
Can also be found at: Trendy martini bars

R-e-e-a-a-l-l-y? I do know many who fit the above description, but I don’t think it applies to me. (Any of my “plotting” friends out there want to chime in?)

Clearly the Oracle is full of something…and it isn’t coffee, because we all know that coffee makes us mellow and very happy. And the Oracle appears to be a bitter old miser.

Your mission, my fellow Starbucks junkies, go see what the Oracle says about you and report back.

I had a few fun stories to share from today, but they are just going to have to wait. I need to put myself in a time-out because I am so very frustrated after a really rotten day.

The quick synopsis of the day: pissed-off J. (beautiful way to start the day, let me tell you); dealt with a whiny, WHINY, very ill-mannered 4-year old who just wouldn’t “for the love of God, STOP WHINING;” wrestled a 2-year old who seemingly doesn’t believe she needs to nap anymore, yet cannot stop crying over every little thing after being allowed out of her baby jail; fought about 100 believed to be “winged termites” that infested my kitchen while I was trying to make dinner and bake bread; and have spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out why my laptop keeps telling me that it needs to restart.

I think I am just going to write this whole day off. Go to bed. Hope tomorrow is better. It has to be better, right?