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So last night I fell in love…

Basically, I wanted a short break from Breaking Bad so I was looking for an anime I could watch a few episodes of in between Breaking Bad, preferably something new that maybe I could rotate between for a while. I settled on Princess Jellyfish because the little Netflix blurb sounded interesting enough and the name kind of drew me in. Plus there was cross dressing… And well, I have this thing.

Basically, I’m really attracted to slender/thin men who cross dress/do drag. My absolute favourite Drag Queen of all time is Alaska Thunderfuck, who was on Rupaul’s Drag Race. I think she is just absolutely drop dead fucking gorgeous in and out of drag. Almost literally takes my breath away…

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Anyway, this anime Princess Jellyfish might just be the most beautiful anime I’ve ever watched and I instantly fell in love with in from episode one. I watched the entire eleven episode anime straight last night with three cups of green tea to keep my company and no interruptions and I bonded intensely with all the characters, which are essentially a ‘rag tag’ group of hard core Otakus and Kuranosuke who is a cross dressing son of a politician who helps these girls realize their beauty and who accepts them despite their weird tendencies and obsessive behaviors.

And we are all hard core Otakus about our tea and I just saw the passion we all have about tea kind of directly reflected in Tsukimi’s love of Jellyfish and it was beautiful and great. Plus, it’s sort of a love story too and it has some very intense ‘shippy’ moments that I know some of you on here would just eat up.

Long story short, I’m in love with this anime and heartbroken it’s only 11 episodes long, except THANK GOD the mango is still on going, because I need resolution and I need Tsukimi and Karunosuke to end up together and it needs to be beautiful and more jellyfish… Just AAAAHHH!!!

Also, I have the hugest anime crush on Karunosuke right now, and am blushing like a stupid idiot just thinking about his adorableness, which is ridiculous because he’s a fictional, animated character.

So yeah, maybe check the anime out? It’s short, so not really a time commitment – plus the theme song is beautiful and SO catchy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJoeGEEu5L4

EDIT: Oh yeah, and the tea was really great too, heh…

Sipdown (195/197)!

This is the official and tragic sipdown note for this yummy late night tea. Though thanks to the lovely VariaTEA it sounds like it’ll be a shortlived loss. Yay!

I’d love to try this as a latte, I think…

And eventually I’ll stock it in a larger amount.

Sipdown (196/198)!

I overleaf the last cup to A) use up the extra leaf and B) see if I could make the flavours less muted. No luck; the cup was basically identical in taste to the one I made the day before, despite having double the leaf. Oh well, at least it didn’t taste bad.

Not going to be missed, but neat to have tried.

All that would come up for this one was the new chocolate, even after hitting enter in the search bar, so I had to look for it in my cupboard…

Anyway, I offered to make Tre some tea yesterday and he said he’d just have what I was having, except what I was having was two sipdowns so I grabbed a different EG and made some for him (complete with ghastly amounts of sugar). He didn’t like it – though I thought it tasted fine, despite the sugar…

I always test what I serve him before giving it to him, if I’m the one making it. Though very rarely does he make stuff for himself.

Sipdown (197/199)!

This finishes off the last of the one teabag samples from Kat_Maria! Another easy sipdown! I was bracing myself for horrible unbearable strong Bergamot, but it was actually quite tasty/palatable with only the faintest bit of astringency. I mean – it was bold/strong, but in a nice way.

I’d drink it again, but wouldn’t buy it for myself because I know I’m not a huge EG fan.

Sipdown (198/200)

Morning cold brew in my beautiful mason jar (I haven’t said it recently, so thank you again Keychange) using the sample from the very generous and kind Boychik. I had most of this in the morning before leaving, but the remainder came in my second timolino with to the mall.

All in all, this was just sort of a generic fruity green although it did have a touch of a bitter edge to it which was unwelcome. I don’t think I’d exactly pinpoint pomegranate as the flavour though; maybe more like raspberry? All in all, ok and an easy sipdown but not really for me.

Cold brew time was five hours.

Now onto yesterday’s backlog!

This was my timolino companion for my interview yesterday (which was just weird, by the way – they were really behind in their interviews so I didn’t have my interview until 2:00PM despite being scheduled for 11:45AM – if I wasn’t so in need of word as soon as possible I would have just left).

My sleep schedule is really out of wack right now though. Basically, I’m sleeping four(ish) hour between 5PM and 9PM and then four(ish) hours between 6AM and 10AM. I have no idea how that happened, but it did. And I don’t like it.

This was it’s usual consistent self, though.

The plan was to add this into the dough for Banana Pudding Sugar Cookies which I was going to make, but then I realized that Tre hasn’t bought butter yet (it’s his turn, dammit!) so I couldn’t make them yet. So instead I just brewed up a cup of this hot to end the day with. Admittedly it was sort of early to be finishing off my tea drinking (9 PM), but Tre had his friend Adam over (who is sort of kind of attractive and shares my love for BtVS but I wont admit that to Tre) and I didn’t want to be the crazy person who drinks 4+ cups of tea in under an hour and a half. Even though I’m totally that person…

I had this without milk, which I don’t usually do for this blend in particular – but it was really good regardless. This is always good. I’m really anxious to try it in my cookie recipe, though…

Mmm! I’ve been making this one up in large quantities, and actually using it up much faster than I thought I would. I think it’s the fact I can actually taste the crust that makes this one especially compelling.

It’ll be gone soon.

I’m lying, this is backlog from two days ago and I’ve since finished it off. It’s already gone.

Sad, tragic sipdown (199/201)…

Well, I guess I’m happy this is the tea that puts me under 200 again, but I’m heartbroken because my love affair with this blend has reached a horrible end for all parties; kind of like the conclusion of The Great Gatbsy (I just finished rereading the book, so I have Gatsby Brain right now). My wife Tropicalia caught me cheating with Pink Passion fruit and had the tisane brutally ended in a pool of hot, boiling water…

Oh, and I guess sorry for any Gatsby spoilers, there…

Anyway, thanks Aimee Popovacki for introducing me with this one. It’s been on my shopping list since trying it, so I’ll be sure to keep a good eye out.