So, who is the person behind the cup? I’m continually asking myself the same question.

I’m a mom of a beautiful, bright, independent teenage girlie named Ashlynn. She is the light and sometimes my dark of the day… because… well, teenage girl. If you have a teenager you know. She is my whole world… and I love her to the moon… times a million jelly beans… and back.

I’m a wife to an amazing guy named Scott for over 10 years… 6 years after not sure’s and what ifs with each other we finally got it right. He continues to make my heart beat fast and I fall more in love with him each day. He is my inspiration.

I’m an amateur baker. I am happy when I dance around my tiny kitchen with music playing and recipes in my head. If I could bake all the time I would. My baking style is more a what if… what happens when I combine this and that… that’s when tastiness happens… most of time. I say tasty… not beautiful well, because I’m not a YouTube or Pintrest person. I bake for taste not beauty. If I do both… well then, that’s amazeballs.

I was a retail manager for over 20 years. And since the pandemic have become a domestic engineer (a stay at home mom). Most days I love being home… my new job can be hard as any mom of a teenager knows. Add in pandemic learning… oy. But really, it’s allowed me to slow my pace and enjoy and update my home and decide what my new phase of life will be… what do I want to do next. I loved retail for a time but that was taxing… I was tired of “being nice” or a people person all day. Which brings me to my next one…

I’m an introvert. Yep, which is why retail was taxing on me. Being around people stresses me out. I’m also socially awkward. Which doesn’t help with the introvert side… I go out and try and hold conversation and then say something random. So most the time I sit back and listen, take in the sites, sounds and beauty around me.

I’m many other things as well. I’m a red (becoming white) head, a geek (mostly movie and tv, some comics, and board games too), a book worm, a lover of live music and probably several other things too.

But mostly I’m just a girl named Corrine, Rini for short, who loves her Coffee.

So why a blog?

Well, because recently I’ve been posting on the ever present Facebook of my coffee everyday. Sometimes it’s inspirational, sometimes it’s me complaining, sometime’s it’s reflection. It made me wonder if 1. I could keep it up (41 days later) 2. What if I wrote about my experiences with coffee, who I’m with, trying a new place, a small eclectic cafe, some new creation or just new to me, etc.

I’m not yet sure how this will change my coffee posts on the Faceybook or if it will. I am wanting to be able to explore and maybe expand a little more on my coffee posts.