My parents know the way to my heart. Coffee.

My mom asked me last week what I wanted for my birthday. I never have a good answer to that question, not like I used to at the age of eight, where I could provide a mile long list of all my wants. As an adult, I’d simply love a long day off with a foot massage. Hard to wrap that up.

They came up with a great gift despite my lack of help. In my e-mail inbox early this week, I received an e-mail from Keurig. Drew found one of their single cup brewers at Goodwill last year for way cheap, and it looked as if it had never been used.

My parents had bought one of these contraptions a few years back, and I found it quite fun. I enjoyed visiting them so I could browse their k-cup selection and pick the perfect one for my morning. All the flavors were fun, and the thing made a pretty good cup of coffee.

Still being a coffee snob, refined after two years of working in a coffee shop, I enjoy my freshly ground cup of coffee. However, I do enjoy the k-cups and how easy they are. The coffee is pretty tasty too! I’ve bought a few boxes and found some of my favorites. With my Keurig gift card, I was able to buy more k-cups. I found that most of the flavors came in sample sizes, where you could get five k-cups to sample. Perfect! Rather than buying large boxes of maybe two or three kinds of coffee, I was able to buy about thirteen kinds! I had a great time browsing through the selection on the website and salivating over the flavor descriptions.

My big box of cupped coffee arrived yesterday, so this morning I was able to browse through my many choices and pick my morning cup.

I decided on Barista Prima Coffeehouse. Quite tasty.

I think Double Black Diamond might be tomorrow morning. With names like that, you can’t go wrong…

Thanks Mom and Dad!