On Coffee Mugs

I broke one of my favorite coffee mugs today, the one I got when we went to the Cincinnati Aquarium. It was perfectly weighted, a little bigger than average, had a easy-on-the-hand handle, and had cute little penguin drawings all over it. It had one small chip on the rim that I had super glued back into place, but it wasn't in a place where my lips would touch so it didn't effect the comfort level.

I have lots of average mugs I can use and I don't tend to keep any that are truly awful, such as the one that are really light, or too small or too big. Anything that makes you dribble when you drink or that has a really wide rim is out, too. If the color or design is a turn-off then the cup is out, but a design I love can push a borderline mug into more frequent use.

I despise drinking out of Styrofoam cups, and paper cups aren't much better. I usually grab a mug off of our open cabinet on my way to work, and I have three or four that I keep primarily for work. I keep my true favorites for the weekends when I can enjoy leisurely drinking coffee at home with David.

When I picked up my penguin mug today the thought crossed my mind, "What if I break it?" I told myself that it was just a mug and it would be fine. I didn't think anything else about it until I was rushing out the door of my office this afternoon and somehow managed to whack the mug on the edge of my desk. It flew into pieces, spraying coffee all over my desk and credenza, but the bottom of the cup landed upright on the floor with coffee still in it. High performance until the end.

I had one other coffee mug end its life in a semi-spectacular way. It was my "Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History" cup, and one day as I was leaving the house I tried to balance it on our back porch rail while I locked the back door. It tumbled off the rail and broke on the ground below. But the really bright part of that was soon after David build a little shelf onto the railing for me to set my cup down on. He even carved our initials in it. (Yes, he IS amazing.)

Goodbye, Cincinnati Penguin mug! You will be missed.

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