Caffeine - to quit or not to quit

Ok. So, I’ve been drinking at least one cup of coffee a day for years, and in the past year, I have moved to Espresso, and two, sometimes three a day. I totally love it! I’ve tried to quit a couple times this year, but it didn’t work.

Two weeks ago, I decided that on Friday, November 4th I would quit caffeine. That really meant I was giving up coffee that I have loved and enjoyed for a long, long time. When I take meetings or get together to read scripts with friends, we meet at coffee places. My days almost always started with some kind of coffee. And when I have days that start before 5am and end the next morning, I’m inclined to have a couple throughout the day.

I chose Friday the 4th because it was close to the new moon and close to the weekend. I figured if I stopped drinking coffee Thursday afternoon and just didn’t buy any on Friday, I could get through my day-job and then sleep through the weekend if necessary.

And that’s exactly what happened. I slept much of the weekend. My head ached off and on too, but mostly I slept.

I woke up long enough to join friends in seeing In Her Shoes. I enjoyed it thoroughly and loved the cast. I knew Toni Colette was going to be very, very good! When I saw About a Boy I knew she was very much on the rise. Shirley MacLaine was terrific as the grandmother, and Cameron Diaz had some very nice moments in her role as Maggie Feller. I enjoyed the movie thoroughly and then had to go home and take another nap. LOL!

I have admired Shirley MacLaine for her books as well as her acting. I read all of her books. My two favorites are "Out on a Limb" and "The Camino, A Journey of the Spirit.” The Camino was a wonderful story of her journey and her experiences in the famous walk across Spain. The stories are almost surreal, but you know they are her truth. I love the “other lives” and “other realities” of this life and have studied them in many ways along the way. The existence of other realities is one of the many reasons that I love acting.