No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. ~Henry Ward Beecher
I found this quote by using google and typing in "coffee quotes". It is actually from the website www.quotegarden.com. I chose this quote because it is actually very true. Coffee has a certain aroma depending on where it it from that actually will determine if you will like the coffee or not. When you are doing a coffee tasting, you are actually supposed to cup your hands around the coffee cup first to get the real aroma of the coffee. This quote means to mean that a coffee that does not have a good aroma, will not taste very good. This quote is related to the theme of my blog because the quote has to do with coffee, and my blog it about coffee =]
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
I know this doesn't have much to do with my blog... but... RIP ERECK.
So I just got back from the memorial for Ereck Plancher at Lely High School
It was so depressing =[ so many people love and miss him very much.
i know i do <3
RIP Ereck
you are truely missed. I feel so bad. I've known him since I was in the third grade. He graduated early last year in December, and started college at UCF early to get a head start on football. I really didn't talk to him since. I saw him during Christmas break for about 20 minutes. But... still... I don't know =[.... He was such a good kid.. and he didn't deserve this. He worked way too hard.... I don't even know how to deal with this because I never really knew anyone who died before. My grandfather died when I was about 2... but I do not remember. Alot of my class came from all over the state and all over the country for this weekend. I know all of us '07 Lely Trojans are hurting right now.There was about 2,000 people there. We all miss him and love him very much. They still do not even know why he died...... I don't understand why this had to happen to him...
RIP Ereck Plancher December 13, 1988- March 18, 2008
As news spread Tuesday of Ereck Plancher’s death, the people who knew him best knew right where to go.
They started showing up early in the afternoon. They came to the purple house on Martin Street with the coconut tree out front.
They cried. They remembered the former Lely High football standout.
"Everyone loved him," said Plancher’s aunt, Brunette Cheielus. "Everyone misses him."
Nowhere more than here.
Plancher died in Orlando, less than an hour after collapsing following an indoor workout at the University of Central Florida, where the 19-year-old was on a football scholarship.
UCF athletic director Keith Tribble said the players had been lifting weights, then ran for about 10 minutes. After the workout, the team huddled for a quick chat. As everyone was leaving, Plancher took a knee in obvious distress, Tribble said. UCF trainers on site immediately provided CPR and the redshirt freshman was taken by ambulance to the hospital. He was pronounced dead just before noon.
The Knights, who were scheduled to begin spring practice today, have canceled all practices until further notice, giving Plancher’s football family time to grieve.
But it was on Martin Street, inside the home where Plancher grew up dreaming of NFL stardom, that the impact hit the hardest.
The heart of the grieving could be found on the floor of the darkened living room, where Gisele Plancher rested on a blanket with a pair of pillows beneath her head.
Destine Duprat, Gisele’s mother, sat on a nearby chair with a hand on her daughter’s shoulder. Two boxes of Kleenex rested on the edge of a sofa.
"I love my son so much," Gisele Plancher wailed. "I love him."
Friends and family members arrived at the door every so often, joining a crowd of roughly 30 grievers who huddled in the kitchen and living room.
Cars lined the street.
"He was a role model for everybody," said Lely High junior Dennis Marcelin, a football player at Plancher’s alma mater. "He was hard-working and always positive. Never negative. I’ve never seen a kid like that in my entire life."
Plancher’s passing remained a mystery as the day turned to night. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of Plancher’s death.
"They did CPR on him for 35 minutes," Gisele Plancher said. "Then they could not help him anymore."
Tribble said Plancher had passed a physical. The practice was inside an air-conditioned building, but the weather outside wasn’t excessively hot. The National Weather Service said it topped out at about 78 degrees, with about 50 percent humidity.
High-temperature training has become an issue in college football after the 2001 deaths of Eraste Autin of Florida, Devaughn Darling of Florida State and Rashidi Wheeler of Northwestern. Also, in January 2007 South Florida running back Keeley Dorsey fatally collapsed while lifting weights at the school’s athletic facility. The autopsy pointed to an undiagnosed genetic heart disorder, but DNA tests couldn’t confirm it.
"There is no sign of anything that would lead us to think that something was inappropriate or improper," UCF police chief Richard Beary said. "It’s just a tragedy that happened to a fine young man."
It didn’t take long for the news to travel. It hit the hallways of Lely early Tuesday afternoon.
Don Alden, who teaches chemistry and physics at Lely and had Plancher in class, said one of his students came into class and delivered the news about 1:30 p.m. Plancher was friendly, popular and helpful to his lab partners.
"It was amazing how fast it shot across the room," Alden said. "That class was instantly mourning."
The news shot around the country as well, sprouting up on Web sites.
The headlines were about a football player. About a redshirt freshman wide receiver who died pouring more of his heart into the thing he loved the most.
Indeed, Plancher, the Offensive MVP for Lely as a senior, always opened eyes with his ability to cut and run and score touchdowns.
He started playing at age 4.
But even the men who coached him — the men who knew his talents better than anyone — didn’t identify the 5-foot-10, 181-pound Plancher as a football player.
They identified him as a Christian, a student, a family man and a role model. They appreciated the things he did off the field even more than the things he did on it.
"Ereck Plancher is one of the finest human beings who will ever walk the face of the earth," said former Lely coach Chris Metzger, who resigned last winter to take a coaching position in North Carolina. "He’s the real deal. You pray every day that your daughters will end up with a kid like that."
Plancher had nearly perfect attendance and was an honor student who earned nearly all A’s, recalled Joyce Shea, the chair of the English Department who taught Plancher when he was a junior. Shea said the thing she remembers most about Plancher were his impeccable manners.
"He was just a total gentleman," Shea said. "He was courteous. He was polite. He was soft-spoken. He was modest. He was a credit for his family. He was so mature for his age. When I had him he was 17 going on 25."
Steve Pricer, who replaced Metzger at Lely after 31 years as a Trojans assistant coach, said the last time he saw Plancher was about a month ago.
It was in church.
"This kid walked the walk," Pricer said. "I just wish more people would have gotten the chance to see it. But people will read about him. They’ll know there was a great kid on this earth at one time. He was so filled with the spirit in his heart."
Plancher hadn’t played at Lely since 2006, when as a senior he compiled 1,027 yards of total offense. He graduated early and enrolled at UCF the following January.
But when the Lely football players met for 45 minutes in the weight room Tuesday afternoon, Pricer said it was just as if the Trojans had lost a current teammate.
Plancher’s legacy is that strong.
"No one really knows how to act," Marcelin said of the mood back at Lely, a short drive from Plancher’s boyhood home.
Marcelin stood outside Tuesday as more cars pulled up. He saw Noelle Nuzzi, Plancher’s girlfriend, walk by wearing a black T-shirt with her boyfriend’s old number on it.
He pointed to the lifeless house full of people.
"I was talking to him in his room the other day," Marcelin said. "Right there."
Plancher was just here for spring break. He came home on Friday and stayed up all night playing ping-pong and video games with his friends in the youth center of his church, First Assembly Ministries. He attended Duprat’s birthday party on the fourth floor of the Best Western the following night.
Sunday evening, he and his mother packed his car. He hugged her neck. He drove away from Martin Street ready for spring practice to start.
"Goodbye, Mom," Gisele remembers her son saying. "I love you."
They started showing up early in the afternoon. They came to the purple house on Martin Street with the coconut tree out front.
They cried. They remembered the former Lely High football standout.
"Everyone loved him," said Plancher’s aunt, Brunette Cheielus. "Everyone misses him."
Nowhere more than here.
Plancher died in Orlando, less than an hour after collapsing following an indoor workout at the University of Central Florida, where the 19-year-old was on a football scholarship.
UCF athletic director Keith Tribble said the players had been lifting weights, then ran for about 10 minutes. After the workout, the team huddled for a quick chat. As everyone was leaving, Plancher took a knee in obvious distress, Tribble said. UCF trainers on site immediately provided CPR and the redshirt freshman was taken by ambulance to the hospital. He was pronounced dead just before noon.
The Knights, who were scheduled to begin spring practice today, have canceled all practices until further notice, giving Plancher’s football family time to grieve.
But it was on Martin Street, inside the home where Plancher grew up dreaming of NFL stardom, that the impact hit the hardest.
The heart of the grieving could be found on the floor of the darkened living room, where Gisele Plancher rested on a blanket with a pair of pillows beneath her head.
Destine Duprat, Gisele’s mother, sat on a nearby chair with a hand on her daughter’s shoulder. Two boxes of Kleenex rested on the edge of a sofa.
"I love my son so much," Gisele Plancher wailed. "I love him."
Friends and family members arrived at the door every so often, joining a crowd of roughly 30 grievers who huddled in the kitchen and living room.
Cars lined the street.
"He was a role model for everybody," said Lely High junior Dennis Marcelin, a football player at Plancher’s alma mater. "He was hard-working and always positive. Never negative. I’ve never seen a kid like that in my entire life."
Plancher’s passing remained a mystery as the day turned to night. An autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of Plancher’s death.
"They did CPR on him for 35 minutes," Gisele Plancher said. "Then they could not help him anymore."
Tribble said Plancher had passed a physical. The practice was inside an air-conditioned building, but the weather outside wasn’t excessively hot. The National Weather Service said it topped out at about 78 degrees, with about 50 percent humidity.
High-temperature training has become an issue in college football after the 2001 deaths of Eraste Autin of Florida, Devaughn Darling of Florida State and Rashidi Wheeler of Northwestern. Also, in January 2007 South Florida running back Keeley Dorsey fatally collapsed while lifting weights at the school’s athletic facility. The autopsy pointed to an undiagnosed genetic heart disorder, but DNA tests couldn’t confirm it.
"There is no sign of anything that would lead us to think that something was inappropriate or improper," UCF police chief Richard Beary said. "It’s just a tragedy that happened to a fine young man."
It didn’t take long for the news to travel. It hit the hallways of Lely early Tuesday afternoon.
Don Alden, who teaches chemistry and physics at Lely and had Plancher in class, said one of his students came into class and delivered the news about 1:30 p.m. Plancher was friendly, popular and helpful to his lab partners.
"It was amazing how fast it shot across the room," Alden said. "That class was instantly mourning."
The news shot around the country as well, sprouting up on Web sites.
The headlines were about a football player. About a redshirt freshman wide receiver who died pouring more of his heart into the thing he loved the most.
Indeed, Plancher, the Offensive MVP for Lely as a senior, always opened eyes with his ability to cut and run and score touchdowns.
He started playing at age 4.
But even the men who coached him — the men who knew his talents better than anyone — didn’t identify the 5-foot-10, 181-pound Plancher as a football player.
They identified him as a Christian, a student, a family man and a role model. They appreciated the things he did off the field even more than the things he did on it.
"Ereck Plancher is one of the finest human beings who will ever walk the face of the earth," said former Lely coach Chris Metzger, who resigned last winter to take a coaching position in North Carolina. "He’s the real deal. You pray every day that your daughters will end up with a kid like that."
Plancher had nearly perfect attendance and was an honor student who earned nearly all A’s, recalled Joyce Shea, the chair of the English Department who taught Plancher when he was a junior. Shea said the thing she remembers most about Plancher were his impeccable manners.
"He was just a total gentleman," Shea said. "He was courteous. He was polite. He was soft-spoken. He was modest. He was a credit for his family. He was so mature for his age. When I had him he was 17 going on 25."
Steve Pricer, who replaced Metzger at Lely after 31 years as a Trojans assistant coach, said the last time he saw Plancher was about a month ago.
It was in church.
"This kid walked the walk," Pricer said. "I just wish more people would have gotten the chance to see it. But people will read about him. They’ll know there was a great kid on this earth at one time. He was so filled with the spirit in his heart."
Plancher hadn’t played at Lely since 2006, when as a senior he compiled 1,027 yards of total offense. He graduated early and enrolled at UCF the following January.
But when the Lely football players met for 45 minutes in the weight room Tuesday afternoon, Pricer said it was just as if the Trojans had lost a current teammate.
Plancher’s legacy is that strong.
"No one really knows how to act," Marcelin said of the mood back at Lely, a short drive from Plancher’s boyhood home.
Marcelin stood outside Tuesday as more cars pulled up. He saw Noelle Nuzzi, Plancher’s girlfriend, walk by wearing a black T-shirt with her boyfriend’s old number on it.
He pointed to the lifeless house full of people.
"I was talking to him in his room the other day," Marcelin said. "Right there."
Plancher was just here for spring break. He came home on Friday and stayed up all night playing ping-pong and video games with his friends in the youth center of his church, First Assembly Ministries. He attended Duprat’s birthday party on the fourth floor of the Best Western the following night.
Sunday evening, he and his mother packed his car. He hugged her neck. He drove away from Martin Street ready for spring practice to start.
"Goodbye, Mom," Gisele remembers her son saying. "I love you."
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
I finally decided what my blog is going to be about...coffee =]
I'm going to start off by giving you some coffee facts that you might not know.
- A mild or a medium blend coffee actually has MORE caffiene than a bolder coffee. People tend to think that because it is bolder in flavor, it has more caffiene. The reason why mild or medium blend coffee has more caffiene is because it is roasted longer than the bold coffees to give it a less intense taste, but giving it more caffiene.
- Decaf coffee still has SOME caffiene in it. There is no way to actually get all of the caffiene out of a coffee bean.
- Once organic coffee beans go through a grinder, they are no longer organic.
- Coffee actually grows in specific regions. Latin America, Africa and Pacific Asia.
- Depending on where the coffee grows, will determine what kind of flavor it will have.
- Latin American coffees will have more of a medium body and a clean finish. Sometimes known for their acidity, nutty or even citrus like flavor.
- African coffees are usually bolder. They can have tropical flavors, or even cocoa flavors.
- Asia Pacific coffees are usually bold as well. They have a spicy, herbal and earthy taste.
Friday, February 29, 2008
New Jersey
Last night, I flew into Newark, New Jersey. I went to work in the morning yesterday, got home, packed and headed to the airport. My flight was supposed to leave at 5:45 p.m. and well lets just say that did not happen. We were about to board the airplane when they announced it would delayed because of air traffic in Newark. They told us they would have an update in 45 minutes. 45 minutes came along and they then told us that they would give us another update in an hour. It didn't take an hour, but we started boarding and 7 p.m. and we took off around 7:30 p.m. I was extremly tired and I fell asleep right after we took off. I woke up about 20 minutes before we were supposed to land. I was so excited to finally get there. We landed and everyone was standing up getting thier luggage, and they announce that they suggest that we sit down because the doors were frozen shut. I never heard of anything like this and I was getting angry, I just wanted to get off of that plane. When I went outside, it was FREEZING out. With the windchill it was only 9 degrees out. I am not used to this weather AT all. My Aunt and my cousin picked me up and we went back to their house. Today, we basiclly just chilled out and rested. We are going to New York tomorrow or Tuesday so I will be sure to put up pictures =]
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Welcome to my blog!
It's Sunday Feburary 17 and I am extremly tired! Although I love my job, the hours suck. I work at Starbucks in Naples and well on the weekends we open at 6:30, but I have to be there by 5:45 which means waking up around 4:45 in the morning. It is even worse during the week. If I have to open during the week, we have to be there by 5:15 in the morning, which means waking up at 4:15. It has really been taking a toll on me lately. I am so tired and worn out. It is hard to work 5 or 6 days a week and still go to school. But, I am trying my best and hopefully my grades will not suffer because of it. I don't really have time to even have a life anymore. I don't have a day off until next Sunday and I have been working since Wednesday the 13th! I am hopefully getting promoted soon though. I am going to finally have a break. I am not working at all during spring break. I am going up to New Jersey (I am originally from there). I thought about it afterwards and I have no idea why I even thought about going up there now. Last week it was 11 degrees. Oh well I already booked my plane ticket before I thought about it. But I am excited to finally be able to get a break. During Christmas break I worked 52 hours one week, and 43 the other so I am in a need for a vacation =]. Well, I will write more later =]
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