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I have moved to a new apartment! My former upstairs neighbors are good people. Their 7 year old son is autistic, so the noise—running, jumping, etc— wasn’t really their fault.I hated, hated to move away from that location. But I couldn’t beat it anymore.

I have 4 boxes left to unpack, plus hours of trying cram everything I own into a smaller apartment. I am tired and cranky.

Friends very generously gave me a really beautiful cup and a tin of this tea as a housewarming gift. The tin is lovely. The cup is absolutely beautiful. It has a girl reading in a garden and blossoms and butterflies in the inner rim. I really love it. I don’t especially love this tea. I don’t generally care for green teas as I find them grassy and bitter or astringent. This one was bitter. I may have over steeped. I’ll certainly try it again and see if I like it better nest time.
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Evol Ving Ness
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I totally understand the need to move to save one’s sanity and well-being. That decision looms in front of me.

Well done for getting on with it. That was fast. I hope there will be all sorts of pleasant surprises waiting to reveal themselves in this new location and that you settle nicely and easily.

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Thanks Evol! It is much quieter. Lots of traffic sounds, since I’m right on a main drag, but that’s the kind of noise that becomes background noise after a while.

Evol Ving Ness
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I have lived directly on a very busy street, with my bedroom right on the street, and it was surprisingly just fine. So, yay!

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Evol Ving Ness
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I totally understand the need to move to save one’s sanity and well-being. That decision looms in front of me.

Well done for getting on with it. That was fast. I hope there will be all sorts of pleasant surprises waiting to reveal themselves in this new location and that you settle nicely and easily.

Maddy Barone
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Thanks Evol! It is much quieter. Lots of traffic sounds, since I’m right on a main drag, but that’s the kind of noise that becomes background noise after a while.

Evol Ving Ness
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I have lived directly on a very busy street, with my bedroom right on the street, and it was surprisingly just fine. So, yay!

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I love cats. I love alone time. I love sitting indoors on a cold winter night with a book or my knitting while drinking tea. I don’t have a sense of smell, so many of the more subtle flavors of tea escape me. Two of the things I CAN taste are bitter and sour, so any tea that has even a slightly bitter taste is nasty for me. And what others might perceive as pleasant tartness may be horribly sour for me.

I’m also a writer. I love writing, and a mug of hot tea helps me get through the hours sitting in front of the computer. Although I’m a comparatively new tea drinker, I’m jumping in feet first. Feel free to recommend any teas you think I might enjoy.

100-91 – Wowza! I want to keep this tea in the cupboard all the time.
75-90 – Very nice. It would be good to have this tea on hand from time to time.
60-74 – OK. Wouldn’t keep it in the cupboard, but I would drink it again.
45-59 – If a friend served this I would drink it to be polite, but it’s not really my cuppa.
Lower than 45 – Blech. It was too sour or bitter for my taste. Would not drink it again.

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