Sometimes it's hard to be a woman

[lizblackdog]

Herbal teas/infusions bought today:

Lemon and ginger
Orange, mango and cinnamon
Raspberry, strawberry and loganberry
African honeybush with a hint of lavender

All by Twinings.

I feel this is a manifestation of my occasional OCDness. I now have too many boxes of assorted non-tea teabags to fit in my tea and coffee cupboard, and I'm drinking so much of the fucking stuff I'm pissing like an ornamental fountain. Only not quite so ornamentally.

They do taste nice though. I'm drinking the orange and mango one now. And the supposedly sleep-inducing chamomile and valerian one does seem to help with the insomnia, although I have to cut it with a fruity one (two bags in my big pint mug) because it tastes like fragrant pondwater.

Also, my computer has taken to teasing me with unfathomably wacky errors, like this morning deciding that Firefox had been erased from the space-time continuum. As in, I'd click the icon, the cursor would change to busy mode like it was about to start, then nothing. I deinstalled and reinstalled it twice, ran all the virus and spyware checks, had hysterics at topbit on IM, and then discovered that she was willing to admit Firefox's existence in safe mode. Then once I had checked my email in safe mode, suddenly no problem. It's running fine.

She already did the same thing to AIM, and I haven't yet solved that. But I don't need AIM to run AIM, I use a client most of the time anyway. Firefox is a little more inconvenient to do without.

I blame myself. I was the one who thought it'd be funny to name the computer Iris. Now she hiccups and periodically deletes herself from the matrix. If I'd picked Rani or Romana I would never have had this trouble.

Comments

[mcsassypants.livejournal.com]

I have to say, Liz, I'm shocked that you're starting to come around to the dark side the whole tea thing. I thought you were a confirmed coffee drinker. Who are you and what have you done to lizblackdog????

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I'm still drinking WAY too much coffee. And actually I have had periodic herbal tea kicks on and off for years; this is just the first one I've had on the Internet. If you see what I mean. XD

[mcsassypants.livejournal.com]

I do see what you mean.

I'm having a non-tea kick, if that makes any sense? It's not that I don't want tea, it's just that this office is often too hot to consider making myself a cup of hot tea.
I...kinda miss cold offices...

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

ohhhh, that would drive me batshit. that's partly why i'm drinking it so much now - it's not really THAT cold here, but it is winter and cold enough for a hot drink to be more appealing than a cold one.

[mcsassypants.livejournal.com]

Seriously! It's not right that it's - 5 bazillion below outside and all I want is ice water.

But soon, soon, soon, I won't be going into the office every day. And that'll be a happy (albeit overwhelming and exhausting) time.

[mencc1701.livejournal.com]

I've never liked tea that doesn't have... well, tea in it. I do like flavoured teas, though, just so long as that black or green tea base is there. Twining's Lady Grey is actually one of my favourite blends, despite the fact I feel vaguely like I'm losing Man Points or something due to the name.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I used to love it - Earl Grey and Lapsang Souchong were my favourites - and then I suddenly started hating the mouthfurring tannic bitterness of actual tea.

I shall probably go back to that some day too, though. i have learned about myself that I never really stop loving anything.

[the-reader.livejournal.com]

'Disappearing up my own fandom' may be the greatest LJ post tag in the entire history of time.

(Also, you just reminded me that this house needs moar red tea. Cheers!)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

It's not as funny as your Lilac Day icon, though!

(Red tea? Redbush, or something else?)

[myrystyr.livejournal.com]

In my converted biscuit tin of teabags at present:

Twinings English Breakfast (x5)
Twinings Earl Grey (x5)
Twinings Russian Caravan (x5)
Dilmah Extra Strong (x20)
Tetley Rounders (x30)

In the fridge:

The above, with +50 amount each to English Breakfast, Dilmah Extra Strong, and Tetley Rounders

In the cupboard:

Unopened boxes of all the above, plus Twinings Irish Breakfast and Twinings Ceylon Orange, at least a 3 month supply's worth.

And now to put the kettle on ;)