Cup O Joe

It’s 5 a.m. and your day at the office didn’t end yesterday until 9 p.m. How do you feel? When that alarm rings are you just so happy to get up and do it again, or do you need a little bit of help like the rest of us as we fall from the bed and stumble into the kitchen looking for our morning wake-me-up? Will that cup of the same old basic brand coffee do this morning? Maybe if you had a little better aroma you could motivate yourself to get things done batter.

The armoa of hazelnut or maybe even the famous Kona coffee from Hawaii would smell great right now as you look for that travel mug. Most of us stop by the coffee house for blends and higher end flavors on our way to work. Maybe after that 12-hour day yesterday those extra 15 minutes we are using to go there could be better spent relaxing in bed. Maybe it's Blue Mountain coffee that you crave this morning, or maybe its organic coffee.

You do not have to shell out the $5-plus for an 8 or 12 oz. cup of those coffees anymore. You can come to work sit at your computer at lunch and order that blend that you feel like waking up to that next morning. You can even get several other flavors so if you want a change every day, you have it right there at your coffee pot. In a hard economic time where we all need to work that little extra to make ends meet -- do we really need to spend the extra $20 a week on coffee that we can get at a discount and maybe spend $5 a week on?

Tomorrow morning as you look across the hall at your friends and co-workers you can rest assured you are drinking a better cup of coffee at a lot less cost than they paid. You may not have that flashy cup with the heat wrap, but what you will have is the satisfaction of 15 minutes more sleep and extra money in your pocket. Save your money and get yourself one of the high tech coffee pots that grind the coffee for you and dispense it at a given time each morning. Waking up to that fresh brewed coffee aroma is something that all of us working people live for daily to get thru our days.