Life is Just a Bowl of Sugar Boogers! posted 10/24/2009 7:23:58 AM | 3 kudos what's this?     report abuse tagged: sugar, love, distance

BionicCouple

I used to take a lot of sugar. When I was a kid parents weren't aware of the dangers of too much sugar in your diet. Mum used to mash up banana and add sugar, it never occurred to her if she didn't we wouldn't get a taste for it. When I first got a liking for tea ... a several times daily tradition in our household ... I took 3 sugars and life was sweet!

When I went to work at the age of 16 I became weight conscious and cut down to 1.5 sugars in my tea or coffee because I drank so many a day I would be hanging from the light fittings by the time the big hand was on 12 and the little hand on 5 but life was still pretty sweet!

When I met my first husband I didn't take sugar, I'd converted to substitutes. Life had been sweet with a slight bitter taste until he tried to convince me tea and coffee tasted better without and then life lacked sweetness most of the time, unless he wasn't around.

After I split from my first husband I started working with around 50 other members of staff. The tea and coffee tins were huge and the sugar jar always filled with coffee boagies ... you know the thing that happens when you use the same spoon to add the coffee and sugar to the hot water ... somewhere along the line the spoon gets wet and you're left with a congealed mixture of coffee granule and sugar grain in the sugar container. At this point I was adding a little sugar to my drinks as and when the fancy took me ... some days I needed it, others I didn't even think about it. When I did, I took great pains to avoid the sugar boogers, for some reason they turned my stomach but life was getting a little sweeter.

I discovered in time too much caffeine interfered with my sleep pattern and substituted fruit and herbal infusions with added honey instead of sugar ... An acquired taste but just as comforting as tea and coffee in time. I enjoyed experiencing something different ... it's good to try something new, plus honey's sweeter than sugar and much better for you. Life was getting sweeter by the minute.

When I went to America and got married again I never thought another spoonful of sugar would pass my lips ... No sugar boogers in my pristine, white sugar jar which rarely needed refilling. Little did I know freshly brewed, strong, black coffee tastes soooo good with sugar ... it even tastes good ice cold when the weather reaches the upper 90's. Hot or cold, I was now taking 3 heaped teaspoons full of sugar and loving every delicious drop. Life was sweeter than I'd ever known.

When I came home, no matter how hard I tried I couldn't avoid the sugar boogers in my sugar jar ... as much as I loved opening it and finding it clean, pure and unsullied it was impossible. I tried using more than one spoon, I even tried picking the sugar boogers out but each time I shook the jar, ten more rose to the surface ... no matter how much sugar I took in my tea or coffee it never tasted as good and sweet as it did when I was with you.

I'd give up sugar tomorrow just to have you here with me where you belong, but there will always be life's sugar boogers ... we can try to ignore them, run the risk of digesting them, waste a whole lot of sugar fishing them out and throwing them away or select one careful spoonful at a time and enjoy what we have.

I know we both hate Dr Phil but he says something in the trailer for his show here that didn't make sense to me until now.

"As it is what it is, the only time is now."

We may need a little or a lot of sugar sometimes but eventually life is going to be so sweet you'd better watch your hypoglycemia ...

Powered, sugared donuts anyone?

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