thoughts on starbucks

I LOVE caffine, primarily in the forms of chocolate and coffee. I can not get through a day without at least a cup of coffee or a piece of chocolate, that would be impossible. My coffee addiction seems to have evolved recently. For me, I think I started drinking coffee as a social activity. Wen had me addicted to white hot chocolate before I moved to FL. During my time working for the mouse, I transitioned to white mocha. My friends I would visit the outlets or the mall and grab some "fancy" coffee and a seat. Coffee became an intergral part of my "girl chats" and shopping trips.
My first long-term real world job brought on my "addiction" to Starbucks. When I worked with Becky, we would use Starbucks runs as ways to get away from the office. After Becky left, Katie became my new office gal-pal, and we would go multiple times a week, testing many of the coffee delights as mid-morning or mid-afternoon treats.
November brought my birthday, and one of my favorite birthday gifts: a wonderful new coffee machine from my mother in law. I started to make coffee at home. As Katie left and Christmas approached, I began to limit my coffee runs. I had no one to go with, and I realized that my social habit was getting quite expensive. I stopped visiting Starbucks all together.
Then, one the way home from an Easter-eve visit to my brother in laws home in MoCo , Carl and I stopped at Starbucks for coffees and breakfast. I ordered my old "usual": tall raspberry mocha, non-fat milk, no whipped cream. This coffee concoction did not bring me the joy that it once had, and I realized, the Starbucks addiction is gone.
I still enjoy a trip every once and a while to A coffee shop. They are great places to sit and chat with my girlfriends, but for my everday addiction, I will stick to my Folgers from home. It has really grown on me :)