I have a confession to make, and I've decided to do it on here, to just get it over with, once and for all: We've switched to instant coffee.

Yes, yes, I know. Get it out of your system.

Why? Because Trader Joe's discontinued the brewed coffee that I like, I can't find another one that I like, and when we were in Ireland, we had no coffee maker, so we bought a jar of coffee crystals and discovered that they taste frisking awesome.

(Spell-check keeps changing fricking to frisking, and I decided to keep it. I like the way it looks, and maybe I'll start a new trend. Frisking awesome.)

Anyway, maybe if I drank my coffee black, it would be an issue; however, I don't, because it tastes gross that way. I use cream and sugar and all of that nonsense, and instant coffee (with all of that stuff) tastes pretty darn good.

Plus, I was getting kind of sick of cleaning out the French press every morning, and I couldn't find a coffee maker that I liked that wasn't a Keurig (I like the idea of the Keurig, but it's just too expensive and the coffee is just okay, not great).

I'm a little picky. I know.

Anyway, the instant costs less, too, so I feel pretty happy about that. There's also the fact that I could take coffee to work and drink it there since we have a hot water dispenser in the office (even though I never drink coffee at work because I'm too self-conscious about coffee breath).

I like to have options, alright?

So now it's all out in the open. I feel like I did the right thing. Just in case you're curious, this is the kind of instant we use:

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You know you want to try it. No cleanup, fast, and it tastes like coffee. Well, it tastes like instant coffee. Which is just fine by me, especially at 5 a.m.

Plus, it's cheap and easy. Kind of like me.

Ha ha ha. I am frisking awesome.