The funny thing is that it wasn't my coffee mug initially. It was part of a small dinnerware set for a single person, containing one dinner plate, one cereal bowl, and this coffee cup with a saucer that my mom bought for my daughter when she was little (maybe just 4 or 5 years old).
Dinner plate and cereal bowl, my daughter was using almost from day one while the coffee mug we were afraid to give her not only because she could break it but because she bit off the glass before, and with the mouth full of glass' parts frightened us to death. After that, she was allowed to use only plastic cups. Therefore, we put the coffee mug away for the day when she would grow up enough to use it.
But when the time came, it turned out that she was more interested in using some other cups and mugs for her morning cocoa or tea.
About 15 years ago, when my old coffee mug shattered, and when I was thinking with which one to replace it, my daughter told me, "Mom, why don't you use this one, if you like it?!"
Of course, I like it, but it wasn't my coffee mug. It was my mother's gift to my daughter, and I thought it wouldn't be right to use it, not to mention how I would feel if, by accident, it breaks. But my daughter was persistent, and by telling me how she was not going to use it, she finally convinced me.
When my daughter got married and left home several years ago, I thought she might want to take that coffee mug with her, but she didn't.
A funny coincidence is that this past Saturday when she came to visit us, she asked me about that whole dinnerware set as she didn't recall who bought it for her anymore.
Unfortunately, the cereal bowl broke first long ago, while the dinner plate survived until a couple of years ago when it fell and broke too, leaving this coffee cup with a saucer as the only remaining pieces of the whole set.
Therefore, I thought again, my daughter might finally want to take this coffee mug, and I offered her to do so, but she smoothly refused without a single second thought.
In the end, she even told me, "Mom, I really want you to keep that mug and enjoy it! Besides, this coffee mug on your worktable is an avoidable part of the picture that I have about you!"
At that time, I didn't know about the Hive 5 reward campaign for "My Favorite Coffee Mug" on Waivio, which would become a perfect fit for my story, while I'm going to continue enjoying my coffee in my favorite coffee mug!
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Cute little cup and saucer you have there my friend
Thank you so much for sharing this, loved it😍
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it!
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I'm sure coffee must taste great from a mug with such a wonderful story behind it! Enjoy your coffee!
hahaha - You can bet, it does! 😀 And thanks!
Love this cap - looks really awesome ;-) Maybe you come to Vienna, bring your cap with you and we have a good coffee ;-)
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it! 😀
Regarding your proposal, there is some problem with it. Although I really love Vienna and am always ready for a good coffee, to be honest with you, I have to tell you that I kinda lost my confidence since the Austrian government administrated mandatory vaccination for its citizens and therefore don't feel comfortable at all anymore to travel to Austria (as I felt comfortable before), because I don't know with what type of new rule they may come up overnight, especially when tourists and foreigners, in general, are in question.
Meaning if the current government is capable of being so rigid to its own people, violating their most basic human rights by imposing as mandatory something that still isn't thoroughly tested and still is experimental, what a foreigner and tourist may expect they might be capable of doing to them?!
It's nothing personal, and I hope you'll understand, but that's how I feel now when it comes to traveling to Austria, and unfortunately, I'm not the only one. Many of us (family members and friends) who were often visitors to Austria before (for skiing, and many other things) have put the country off the list now, replacing it with some other destinations.
I don't understand not really but it's you opinion and I respect this ...
... also in other destination you have the virus. Really bullshit :)
I think this "the Austrian government administrated mandatory vaccination for its citizens" is also a old informationen ;-)
Have fun and I really enjoy now good coffee in the the train to Carinthia for snowboarding.
Sorry for my bad English
Stay safe and healthy
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I think you misunderstood me as I wasn't talking about the virus. If nothing, the virus doesn't recognize and even less care about some administrative border lines drawn by politicians.
I was talking about the mandatory vaccination which I find as some sort of dictatorship imposed over the whole nation (and not to mention that Austria was the only EU country that did it).
Anyhow, you were right when you said it's already old information, although only 2 days old as on Wednesday they suspended mandatory covid vaccination. So, that's good news! 😀
However, I wish you enjoy your snowboarding in Carinthia and have lots of fun! 😉😀
Yes and this information is old! So my girlfriend has a lot of problems with the virus. Don't tell me that vaccinations didn't help or have you never been ...
But anyway just get the newest information. I understood what you are writing ;-)
And if you look at this numbers: https://www.google.com/search?q=corona+zahlen+%C3%B6sterreich&rlz=1C5CHFA_enDE904DE904&oq=coronazahlen+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j35i39j0i10i433i512j0i10i512j0i10i457i512j0i402j0i10i512j0i10i433i512j0i10i512j0i10i131i433i512.5246j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
More than ever in Austria! If you are traveling to Vienna or actually Austria it's your opinion ;-) I don't care but check the latest news ;-)
So stay safe and enjoy life
lol - We can't really call the news from two days ago old information as it's ancient old when it's just recent news. 😄 But OK, it's news that put previous regulations out of force.
I'm genuinely sorry to hear that your girlfriend has lots of problems with the virus or its after-infection side effects, and I hope she will get the proper treatment and get well soon.
Regarding the vaccine itself, and how good or bad, effective or not it is, only time will tell. The regulated time frame for testing every new drug or vaccine before putting it on the market is not set that long for anything, as some side effects may show up right away, some later on (in a couple of weeks or months) while others may take years.
What we know for now, according to current official data, is that this vaccine killed more people than all the available vaccines out there in the last 30 years. Was it worth comparing to how many people it saved, as I said, time will tell?!
Apart from that, and knowing that two patients with the same disease (diabetes, cancer, heart issues, AIDS, or whatsoever) very often are not treated with precisely the same drug or even treatment, as each patient is a specific and individual human organism starting from a differently developed immune system on, it's kinda insane to think that for one disease/virus, over a sudden, we have just one type of drug/vaccine that would heal and protect the whole world population equally.
Regarding those big numbers of newly infected, yeah - unfortunately, that's the case now in all the countries where the vaccination rate is high. In contrast, the countries that couldn't afford to buy a larger amount of the vaccine, like Benin, Cameroon, Nigeria, etc., now have zero or a very low number of newly infected.
However, I was not talking about the vaccine or new infectious rates.
I talked about the regulations that prohibited people from choosing how they would be treated and/or protected.
Meaning, if there is no such regulation for people infected with HIV, AIDS, or even MRSA (quite an ugly and deadly bacteria, although unfortunately almost regular habitat of the hospitals), why should it be for this virus?!
After all, choosing the physician and the treatment is always a very intimate private decision of every man or woman, and certainly not the government or anyone else's business.
And on top of all of that, I certainly didn't want to start some pro-vax or anti-vax debate here, especially not around one cup of coffee (what's the topic of my post). So, I'll stop with that, as I either don't have the intention to continue in that direction. There are way better and brighter topics we can talk about.
Therefore, I wish you to continue enjoying your snowboarding in Carinthia, good coffee, and all the other beautiful things life would bring your way! 😉🙂
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The coffee mug and saucer set looks so lovely. I think you should definitely use it. I myself get attached to my coffee mug and I don't replace it unless I really need to. Lovely story. Thanks for sharing it!
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Same here! 🙂 I also get attached to my coffee mug which then becomes an unavoidable part of my drinking coffee ritual.
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