More tea in the mail this afternoon! This time it was the two blends that I purchased from Shadowfall (Prairie Berry from DAVIDsTEA and Cara McGee’s TARDIS blend from Adagio)! It made it here in less than a week, coming from the states! I’m super impressed. However, with those two blends counted, that now puts me at 117 different tea.
My Dad asked me yesterday how many blends I’m at now and I didn’t text him back because I’m sort of ashamed to tell him the number. Last time he was up to visit I was hovering right around 50, and that was only two months ago…
Anyway, I made myself some of this today for work. I picked this one for a couple reasons, including the fact I was tired and lazy, under time constraints (running late), and just wanted something light and minty. For preparation, I brewed this up concentrated (two teabags) in boiling water for 3 minutes. I then poured the concentrated mix into my water bottle and watered it down with about a cup’s worth of cold water. It was faster doing it this way than it would have been making two separate cups.
Taste wise, it’s quite lovely. Nice and light, and very refreshing. Since really diving into my tea journey I’ve learned that while I still love mint teas, I much prefer them cold to hot. Very rarely do I drink mint teas anymore without them being cold (the exception being chocolate mint blends). Today, this kinda tastes like spearmint gum…
Side note not relevant to tea…
I feel like a terrible roommate today. I kind of screwed Tre over, although it was a complete accident. Yesterday I borrowed his bus pass to do some late night shopping since he has a monthly one that has unlimited rides for the month. I, however, don’t go places that are outside of walking distance too often so my pass is set up to buy sets of rides at a time (usually 10) because that’s more cost effect for me.
However, last night I was down to 1 ride – and I would have needed 2: one to get downtown and one to get home. So, I took his since he wasn’t going out yesterday evening…
I though everything was all worked out – when I got home I gave him his pass back so he could use it to get to school. Turns out that I accidentally gave him mine (they look the same!). So, he managed to get to Siast alright, but now he’s going to have to walk home. It’s nearly a two hour walk.
I feel really bad…
