Diet Coke.

Just one calorie. Not Evil enough!

I have made a cataclysmic decision this past week that has affected me every day. I have given up Diet Coke. I know, I know...hundreds and hundreds of my hard earned dollars have been poured into Diet Coke drinking in the past 11 years but enough is enough! I need to break my caffeine addiction. I don't want anything in my life that rules me to such a degree that without it I have massive, migraine-like headaches.

The headaches are gone and so I think my addiction has gone with it. The hardest part of all of this is finding a replacement for my beloved drink. I made it go with everything! I have been sampling an assortment of juices but it just isn't the same. CURSE YOU COCA-COLA COMPANY! (Though I must admit the five free magazine subscriptions I got from them was nice)

Alas, I will reserve my Diet Coke drinking for special occasions and will try to drink water day to day.

I am just feeling naive. I thought I would feel monumentally different after overcoming this hurdle. I have heard so many people say, "I gave up caffeine and I feel so much better!"

Oh really? I just feel like my eyelids weigh four hundred pounds. I am getting cranky. Sorry if I snap at you...maybe Methadone will help.

Any reference to drugs is only in the spirit of jesting and not intended to offend heroine addicts or the late son of Anna Nicole. I am just cranky.