Now that I've accepted successfully becoming an office-working coffee addict, I try not to jump right in to the caffeine wake-up call immediately when I get to work. I like to get my day started and get some work orders in before I streamline to the kitchen for my morning brew. Kind of gives me something to look forward to in the later morning hours. But I must admit it was difficult getting through that first hour today, as I also witnessed from my fellow co-workers who passed behind my desk for their daily dose of coffee or tea shortly after beginning the work day. Between that and the pile of leftover Halloween candy sitting in the bowl on my desk that slowly disappeared throughout the day, I'm pretty sure half of the Maxim employees were on a sugar high today. So I was kind of wondering, why is it so difficult for us to get started on Monday? Theoretically, the weekend should be relaxing right? So we're supposed to come in refreshed and ready for to seize the work week! Right? But as all of us sit at our desks all day, typing, answering the phone, making calls, typing and clicking, typing and clicking, I wonder which parts of our weeks are actually more relaxing. Which parts are helping us live longer, happy lives, and which parts are actually causing us more stress, more wear and tear on our minds and bodies than we realize. I'm not knowledgable enough to delve any deeper than to ask the questions and make my own assumptions, but when I walked into the kitchen today with my black coffee mug ready for my jump-start, I saw the pot and thought, "Why is all the coffee gone?"
