Today is, well, “full” is kind of a good word.  There is house cleaning to be done, work-work to be done, blogging to be done, projects to be researched and…ironing Will’s clothes for the fancy engineering business dinner thing that he’s going to tonight (sans me, which I’m kind of okay with because engineering is not my deal.  It would be kind of like forcing him to go to a Grey’s Anatomy symposium).

These things are in addition to the trips to Fred Meyer and the UPS store that I have already checked off my list.

So, as most you might already know, we here in the Snarke household are “trying” again.  I thought about writing a post similar to Dooce’s “The Procedure” but decided against it.  But those of you who have read it will understand what I’m talking about.

But! My point!

Because we are “trying” again, I’m also trying to live sort of like we’ve already succeeded: giving up/cutting way down on my caffeine intake, eating healthy…er than we have been (not to difficult considering that for two months we ate pretty much only fast food or frozen dinners), etc.  According to all of the baby/pregnancy books pregnant women can have up to 200mg of caffeine a day.

By the way: just because “the procedure” has been reconvened does not mean that we have succeeded at anything yet, so please don’t get all “ohmigod!” on me.

But! Back to My Point!

On Friday I may have accidentally had quite a lot of extra caffeine, thanks to the 16 oz cremekula I ordered at Seattle’s Best without asking it to be espresso free (I thought they were the same things as the non-espresso’d frapuccinos at Starbucks.  Oops) and ended up containing a double shot of espresso as well as my total stubbornness and refusal to give up my table by the outlet to order a new one when I discovered my mistake.

I might have been awake until after five in the morning thanks to that, but…bygones.

Anyway, so I was really caffeinated on Friday/Saturday morning and so have spent the last couple of days going through caffeine withdrawal headaches.  Which TOTALLY defeats the whole “giving up/cutting way back on caffeine” goal I’ve been working toward.  So I resolved No More Caffeine.

Then this morning I woke up feeling kind of sluggish and bleh and overwhelmed by just how much I have to do today–which included a trip to Fred Meyer where they have a soda fountain.  So.  I decided to look up the caffeine content in Pepsi.

And it is totally within the 200mg cutoff point.  According to the site I found, a 20 oz Pepsi has 63 mgs of caffeine.  Score!

So.  I have been slurping on a caffeinated Pepsi and have quite a lot of energy now.  Which will really help me get everything done.

That’s right.  I get an energy buzz on the caffeine in soda.  I? Am a lightweight.  Which is why soda is the strongest beverage I usually drink (except for when I accidentally end up with double shot cremekulas).

It has taken all of my self control not! to! end! every! sentence! with! exclamation! points!  (a sure sign that the caffeine has gone straight to my head).