a new direction

It has been a while since I posted here. I got a little bored, and probably a little boring, reporting each day whether or not I bought a latte. I've been focusing a lot more on my primary blog, Ruth, the Mom. I guess my latte blog has been mostly for my own purposes, which is a good thing since up until the other day, I had a TOTAL of two readers.
The traffic has increased a little bit lately, so I thought I'd start writing here again. But, I've decided to take it in a different direction, and expand into all things caffeine.
For instance, I would like to reduce my dependency on caffeine. A big part of the equation is getting more sleep. There always seems to be some reason to stay up late. Then in the morning, in order to function, I have to turn to caffeine.
I am drinking a latte right now, as a matter of fact. I stayed up WAY too late last night. If it was just me, I'd make a pot of tea instead of just a cup. But since my husband was at home today, and he also stayed up WAY too late, I drove to the Starbucks at our friendly neighborhood Hy-Vee grocery store and handed over seven dollars so that we could each slurp down a special combination of a little bit of espresso and a lot of milk.
You can see where this doesn't really make much logical sense. What if we spent seven dollars EVERY DAY on lattes? As a family we would contribute over $200 a month to Starbucks' coffers. That's $2400 a year. Think of all the things you could do with $2400 a year.
Starbucks does not appeal to your logical self.
I just think it's good to think these things over once in a while.