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Confession: this is a make it up as I go along 31 days series. If you want a little more info about all this go check out this brief post. I may or may not get a page up later this week along with a better graphic.

I want this series to be like we’re sitting in a coffee shop or at my kitchen table or maybe out later. Let’s start with favorite drinks.

Coffee Order, please.

If we’re out at a coffee shop, what are  you ordering? Something seasonal? Something fancy? A regular go-to order?

And if we’re here, how do you take your coffee? Black? Sugar? Creamer?

Tea for me

Okay, tea drinkers…what are you ordering at the fancy shop? Or if we’re here, what am I stocking up on to offer you, my friend?

Soda or Stronger

Maybe we’re out to lunch or having lunch here. Are you ordering a soda? (Coke or Pepsi?) Maybe an iced tea (guess that might go in the tea category). Stronger choices: Are you a margarita or a mojito drinker? Just a beer? And if we’re here, I can get you water, lemonade (maybe), juice, or probably something we’ll have to borrow from the 22 year old.

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My answers:

My coffee order

Coffee at home is au lait. Just plain Folgers out of the pot with a splash of milk to make it the special right light brown color. Coffee out is a hodgepodge depending on where we go. I do like to try the seasonal drinks (in season, sorry I’m not going to order a pumpkin anything when it’s 95 degrees out but a cookie dough freeze coffee drink, okay). If nothing seasonal appeals, I’ll most likely order a mocha, cappuccino, or caramel macchiato depending on my mood. Also, I prefer hot coffee drinks unless it’s hot outside, then I’ll have mine iced or blended (as I’ve found iced gives me a lot more ice than coffee at our local shops).

Tea choices

If you come here for tea, it’s either green chai or Earl gray at the moment. Tea is kind of a fall/winter thing for me so I don’t have a lot on the shelf right now. I do have some hot cocoa though. Guess I left that out of the questions up there, oops. If we’re out, I’m ordering a chai latte. My standby favorite. Current favorite though: Dutch Bros caramel pumpkin breve made into a chai. The baristas (or broistas, lol) never lead me wrong.

Soda or Something Stronger

With tea still on my mind, if we’re out for Thai food, I’m ordering one of those Thai iced teas. So good. Otherwise, water or unsweet iced tea (I’d never survive the south, I can’t stand sweet tea). I will sometimes also order the “fancy” iced teas with flavor though. And if it’s an option, I’m ordering the Arnold Palmer. Coca cola is my preference but I’m not picky if we’re out and yes, Pepsi is fine. At home though, I skip the Pepsi unless it’s Mango Pepsi. We do try not to buy a lot of soda though.

If I’m picking my poison, it depends on where we go for our lunch/dinner. Mexican: maybe a margarita, frozen though. Pizza? Just a beer. Out for a night with friends somewhere with fun drinks: I’ll try whatever looks interesting and pretty. I do like to get a cosmopolitan when we do Galentine’s day.  And if we’re here, well…let’s see. Leftover wine spritzer from a girls’ trip in June? Those are mine. Now we  have to raid my son’s stuff: Angry orchard hard cider? A bit of vodka? Something called a quark? Oh or my husband has some nasty (my opinion) peanut butter whisky?

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Okay, I want to hear your answers. I like to be a prepared hostess. And take my friends to places I know they’ll have something they like.