Coffee & Tea
Jan. 10th, 2022 06:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shesingsnowBack in 2016 and 2017, I developed a good habit of drinking herbal tea for most of the day, rather than 7-8 cups of coffee. Key to this was skullcap tea for its calming effects and raspberry leaf tea, which seems to mitigate the effects of the new ways my body creates hardcore depression-level emotions after the ovarian cyst surgery.
My tea drinking dropped off when I got the new job in 2018 - I tried to continue for a while but it was much harder to maintain in the new office. The cafe had coffee, so I went back to the all coffee all day channel.
Come pandemic2020 and working from home, I haven't done much better with the much easier access to the coffeemaker. I eventually got a hot/cold water dispenser to help encourage me to drink more tea. I bought fancy tea, boxed tea, tea accessories, and even a special tea mug, but I haven't really gotten it together.
Last night I turned a corner. I could feel it within. Something about this year is new - and the feeling hasn't faded. Last night, during the D&D game, I started making tea. I rediscovered the special tea mug yesterday afternoon, although I don't know what I did with the cover, and brought it out during the game. I went and dug through a bag in the bedroom where my Tay Tea stash was and brought the tea out. I drank four cups of tea last night. It was somehow easier than it has been.
Notably, the artisanal tea was leagues better than the boxed tea, with the exception of the one boxed tea I really like - "Stress Ease" from Traditional Medicinals. The Tulsi tea from Organic India wasn't that great. The other two cups were a Tuk Tuk Chai and Soder tea (a black+fruit tea) from Tay Tea. I put milk in the chai. I put two packets of stevia into each of the cups.
I might have two cups of coffee this morning, but then I'm switching to tea. I actually feel as if I will continue this time. There is something much easier about working on the same floor as the kitchen.
Off to it, then.
My tea drinking dropped off when I got the new job in 2018 - I tried to continue for a while but it was much harder to maintain in the new office. The cafe had coffee, so I went back to the all coffee all day channel.
Come pandemic2020 and working from home, I haven't done much better with the much easier access to the coffeemaker. I eventually got a hot/cold water dispenser to help encourage me to drink more tea. I bought fancy tea, boxed tea, tea accessories, and even a special tea mug, but I haven't really gotten it together.
Last night I turned a corner. I could feel it within. Something about this year is new - and the feeling hasn't faded. Last night, during the D&D game, I started making tea. I rediscovered the special tea mug yesterday afternoon, although I don't know what I did with the cover, and brought it out during the game. I went and dug through a bag in the bedroom where my Tay Tea stash was and brought the tea out. I drank four cups of tea last night. It was somehow easier than it has been.
Notably, the artisanal tea was leagues better than the boxed tea, with the exception of the one boxed tea I really like - "Stress Ease" from Traditional Medicinals. The Tulsi tea from Organic India wasn't that great. The other two cups were a Tuk Tuk Chai and Soder tea (a black+fruit tea) from Tay Tea. I put milk in the chai. I put two packets of stevia into each of the cups.
I might have two cups of coffee this morning, but then I'm switching to tea. I actually feel as if I will continue this time. There is something much easier about working on the same floor as the kitchen.
Off to it, then.
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Date: 2022-01-11 03:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-11 11:57 am (UTC)The tea is great, though - yes!! Very cool.