I want this so much!

Which is why I posted it on my other blog, Want So Much! but I figured it was appropriate to post here as well:

For some reason I am able to post pictures from work fine, but not from home.  Time to figure out why. :/

Yes, I'm a bad blogger

Yes, I've had tea, no I haven't been posting for the past few days, yes I'm a horrible person.

Well, maybe not a horrible person, just an easily distracted one.

Anyway, I can't remember exactly which days I've had everything.  Here's as much as I can remember:

Went up to World Tea House to try the white guava ginger.  It wasn't yet out and it couldn't be found, so I tried the new stu-tea instead.  Very nice!  I was told that it had licorice, but that it wasn't a very strong licorice taste.  I got all excited because I loooove licorice, but alas, she was right: it wasn't a very strong licorice taste.  It was a nice earthy blend of flavors though, and I would definitely get another cup sometime.

At a later date I went up and actually tried the white guava ginger.  Love it! Light, sweet, and a little spicy.  Perfect.  This might just bump out white coconut creme as my favorite!

A couple days ago I was off to visit my friend BAD, to chill and have some tea.  To say that she's been stressed lately would be a huge understatement, and since my solution to everything is more tea, I offered to bring some over.
She lives right by the Halifax Shopping Centre and not only that, but the route I took (which was through the mall rather than around it) took me right past DavidsTea.  And the same person was working.  I felt myself being drawn in totally against my will!  Sort of...Well, maybe just against the weak protest in the back of my mind which said I don't really need more tea.

Obviously, this is a voice that I have become very, very good at ignoring.  It's and acquired skill.

Oh, I forgot to mention that last time I was there he said he liked my bag. (which doesn't seem to be available at ThinkGeek at the moment...Oh well, good thing I got mine when I did then!)

As you may or may not know, I love me some geek boys. *sigh*

Anyway, I was feeling like some coconut when I went in, so I asked if they had anything with coconut.  This resulted in even more containers of tea being pulled down from the shelves than last time.  Luckily, I kind of expected this to happen and I wasn't quite so overwhelmed.  After sniffing my way through a variety of different teas, I settled on Buttered Rum.  Because it smelled delicious.  I didn't even bother getting a cup first to try it out, I just grabbed a bag.  I can definitely see myself going back for a tin.
Plus, it boasts a little organic label on it.  No fair trade label unfortunately, though. :(

Once I made it to BAD's house, we hung out, had tea, and I played Zelda on the 64.  I forgot how much I love Ocarina of Time.  I think I left my tea pinch there though.  Or at least, I haven't been able to find it since then.  That could just be because I'm really forgetful and unobservant though.

I started the last couple of days off with my new buttered rum tea because it's new and shiny and tasty.  I brought some with me when I went to my French class, and when I went to a friend's place to hang out and play Borderlands for several hours.

I'm kind of tired of rum in the morning though, so I'm back to my chai (Tali's Masala Chai, World Tea House), which I'm still sipping my way through now.  Oh chai.  I missed you.  Good thing I went and got a refill.

Oh yes, and the past couple times I've gone to World Tea House, I haven't really felt like trying anything new, either because I don't feel I have time, or because I'm in the mood for something more familiar.  I mention time, because World Tea House has a bunch of what they call Premium Teas.  They tend to be higher quality and are good to re-steep a few more times.  The lovely jasmine pearls I tried were both pretty to look at, and just as tasty the second time I tried them.  I didn't have enough time to try for a third then.  I'd like to pop in some day on one of my days off and just see what happens when I re-steep the same pot of tea a few times.
Maybe I will try one of them next time I go in to write for a couple hours.

The wanting something familiar, well, that's just me wanting something familiar. XD

So, all that tea, plus a few more glasses of apple juice + chai is about everything I've tried for the last week or so.  I think.

Actually, I'm sure I'm missing a few things, but that's the best I can do today.

Till next time!

Ziiiingin' in the rain...

So.  Electric Lemon from DavidsTea round two.

Whole experience is much, much better when you actually pay attention and take the tea out after a few minutes instead of letting it sit there while trying to figure out whether or not the av cables for your N64 are in correctly (they were, by the way.  Matching up chords that are colour coded is not very hard).

It was a nice start to the day.  Enough zap to get me started and out the door.  It has since stopped raining, but the title still fits.  All this means is that I'm going to be dragging my umbrella around on a sunny day like an idiot.

Ah well.
Anyway, the tea re-steeps fairly well, though it is considerably less lemony-zingy the second time around.  Because it's this much weaker this time, I don't think it would make it through a third round.

Despite it having a bit less lemony kick-ass power, it's still enough to keep me awake right now when all I want to do is take a nap.  The rest of the world is closed on Easter, why isn't my work? :/

I also had another cup of apple + chai tea (Simply Apple + Tali's Masala Chai from World Tea House), but I really can't remember when.  I can't remember if it was this morning, or last night.  If anything, that should tell you the state of my brain at both times...

That's all for now.  Happy Easter, if that's your thing.  In my case, it would be happy zombie movie day.  Oh, I think I see the beginning of an awesome tradition... 

Cinnanomnomnom

Started off yesterday with more rooibos chai.  It was actually in the afternoon, since I work late on Thursdays, but whatever.
Within ten minutes of my posting the last entry (or at least it felt like it was quick, it might have been longer) @WorldTeaHouse tweets that there are new teas available.
NEW TEAS! YES PLEASE!
So When I headed over to try some Sweet Hot Cinnamon.  Good thing too, since I left my umbrella there the other day.  Phil (rather reluctantly) gave me back my umbrella.  It's ok Phil, I know it must have been hard to give that back.  It is a pretty awesome umbrella.
So I plunked down with a cup and...

...Loved it!  Cinnamon and cloves, so it's chai-like, but there was orange peel as well.  But still managed to taste different from the Orange Spice.  Very nice. Very...well, cinnamony.

I re-filled my slightly chipped-but-not-broken mug and went back to work.

This morning, mom was super awesome and not only dragged me out of bed with the promise of waffles, but she made me tea too!  I filled my pot up with the tea I wanted this morning, but she still got the water and pulled the tea out of the water once it had steeped long enough.

Thanks mom!! <3

I decided to have some ginger mint tea on my way to work today.  Just ran up to get a re-steep.  It re-steeps fairly well, although it's not as spicy the second time around.  Only really good for a couple steeps, I think.

Hopefully that will be enough to get me through the rest of the day.  I'm so bored here...Who's open on good Friday, anyway?

Tea is certainly looking attractive...

Tea for the past couple of days:

Came over to Halifax a little early to sit, write, and have some tea before heading over to a Tarot workshop at Little Mysteries. It was a great workshop, although it was a bit hard on my butt sitting in those chairs for three hours.  Luckily there was a break at one point for everyone to get up and stretch.

I'm also happy I decided to go and try some yerba mate at World Tea House first, because even though the workshop was awesome, I think I might have gotten a little tired if not for the energy boost.  It's a lot to take in over three hours.  That said, I'd do it again.  I would recommend it for anyone in the area looking for a good introduction.

And what was my energy boost of choice?  A pot of yerba mate.  I really like the taste of it, even on it's own.  My friend who was working said she found it woodsy and preferred it with some lemon, but I think the lemon was overpowering, and that the tea on it's own wasn't too, too woodsy.  She said it was a good non-jitter inducing pick-me-up, and she was right about that.

This means that I just have to try the Silver Needle and the chamomile teas and I would have tried all of their whites and herbals! :o

As for yesterday...

I had planned to meet a friend for tea last night.  I had been saying for a few days that I would bring her some of the ginger mint tea, since it's yummy and helps settle tummies.
(Mom also had some, since she's not a fan of just straight mint, and she really enjoyed that too)

Well, didn't I forget my tin at home?

So, in an effort to try and make up for forgetting the tea, I popped into DavidsTea at the Halifax Shopping Centre to try and pick up something with some ginger in it.

They did not have ginger and mint.  They have about a billion types of tea (rough estimate) with blends of about a billion types of tea together (again, rough, rough estimate), but it doesn't seem like they have just ginger and mint.  And although they may be able to to make blends themselves, it was never offered.
Now, even when I knew what I wanted I was still a little overwhelmed with all of the choices given.  I asked for ginger and ended up with five types of tea in my face.  They smelled wonderful, and I'm sure they're all really, really awesome, but I think I would have just liked an extra second and a half to say "No, I don't think so." or "Yes, that one right there! I'll try that!"

One thing DavdisTea has going for it though?  Really cute servers.  Twice now I've thought the guy talking to me about tea was really cute.  This one had tattoos too. *swoon*

The sample they were giving away that day was their North African mint, which apparently had licorice and fennel in it, but I couldn't really taste anything other than mint right away.  I will say that the taste was a bit fuller than just straight mint, so it was very nice.

There was also an adorable glass tea set that I really wanted, but don't need and can't afford.  I already have one small, cute tea set of four.  These ones just happen to be glass...

In the end I settled on a bag of Electric Lemon.  It was a green tea base with ginger and lemon.  It was pretty good, but I guess it's part of their winter collection, so when they run out, that's it.

At my friend's place, I started brewing a cup, and then went to go mess around trying to hook up an N64 on a TV that hates everything, so I ended up steeping it for waaaaaaaaaaay too long.  It was pretty gross.  I'm going to try another cup when I'm not so distracted and see how that turns out.

Today I had a cup of rooibos chai.  I'll be wandering up to my usual place later tonight.  I'm trying to cut down on the caffeine a bit during this week, but I also want to try new things.  Or maybe I'll just say screw it and try whatever pops out at me.  Whatever the case, I'm sure it will be delicious.

Till later!

Now my hand hurts

No, it's not for that reason, you perv.
It's because I was absolutely itching to get outside on such a nice day yesterday, so I went over to World Tea House to write.
And I wrote. And wrote. And wrote.

Now my hand hurts.

While I was writing (and texting, and talking with friends) I had:
One small soy coconut cream latte
Two pots of Vanilla Rooibos
Two pots of Chocolate Monkey.
I also got to have a cup of lemonade with lemon verbena, jasmine, and mint.  We think that it should be either mint OR jasmine instead of both, but either way it was still quite good. :D

I ended up writing quite a bit while I was there.  This whole writing thing is pretty fun.  I've been thinking of maybe making a weekly thing out of it, drop by on one of my days off, and just write for as long as I feel like it over some tea.  Hopefully I'll get better at this and my hand won't cramp up.  I'm so used to typing that I've forgotten how to write, I think.
And really, I just can't quite seem to get the same ideas out of my head when typing.  Besides, my laptop is heavy.  I don't want to drag the stupid thing around.  Kinda defeats the whole point of it being a laptop, but oh well.

Maybe I'll get some more writing done today.  Or maybe I'll finally pop into strange adventures and see what'st here.  I haven't been there in forever.

Till next time!


EDIT:  Still not letting me do pictures!  WTF?

This article has absolutely nothing to do with tea

Jezebel: Utah Republican To Eliminate Premarital Sex

Absolutely nothing at all.
But this was the picture:

So I thought I'd share.  Enjoy.