It's hard to believe that it's been over 15 months since we moved here.  Time flies unbelievably fast the older I get, and am I getting old!  In that time since we moved here we have often been asked the question, "So how do you like Swift Current?"  Jenn and I have developed the standard answer for the standard question, "We like it, but it doesn't have a decent coffee shop."  This answer usually gets the same standard response, "What do you mean?  We have two Tim Horton's."  (Insert "sigh" here.)  Tim Horton's is all fine and dandy if you want a mediocre cup of coffee on the fly.  It's cheap and it has a drive through.  It needs to be understood though that Tim Horton's is not a coffee shop.  It is just a fast food joint that serves coffee.

Well, after 15 months of waiting and giving the standard answer to the standard question and then receiving the standard response, all the standards are going to have to be thrown out the window!  That's right, Swiftyvillerton is getting a real coffee shop!  Urban Ground opens on Monday and Jenn and I plan on being the first customers.  I am so excited about it I'm halfways tempted to sleep outside the front door as my brother did waiting for his Wii.  I miss real coffee so much.  I miss my medium, decaf, fat-free, triple latte.  Jenn misses her large, fat-free, sugar free, carmel machiatto.  If you don't know what that is, you don't know coffee.  This isn't a slight against your person, it just means that we live in different planes of existence in the coffee realm.

So like I said, all the standards get thrown out on the window on Monday.  I guess it means that I'm going to have to level with people totally and let them know that Swiftyvillerton is great, but in the end I still miss the hustle and bustle of Regina and the friends and family residing there.  I miss the sound of planes flying overhead at night and traffic on Ring Road.  Swiftyvillerton is great, and it even has a coffee shop now, but it still doesn't have everything.  I don't know if this small town is fully ready to embrace the coffee shop culture yet, but I'm going to do my best to prop up the business of Urban Ground single handedly if I have to.