Rant: Tea plus various off-topicness

[railenthe]

I’m writing, and since I just ate, I decided to have a cup of tea. Of course, that is no real reason to have a cup of tea. Tea needs no real excuse to be had, you know. Just the two:

The presence of hot water in something, and something that can be brewed. There you have it, the only real reasons that you need to have tea.

On average I tend to drink about three to four cups a day, way down from six to seven; I haven’t been drinking as much of it as I used to because I had to start cutting back on the sugar. No real dietary reason for it, it’s just that if I have too much sugar, there’s no real way to know if I’ve gotten anything substantial into my system. So until I got some more stevia extract, I cut it back a bit. Now that I’ve got it, I’ve been able to drink tea as I should-often and sweet without as many calories. I’m up to a teaspoon today, since the extract is as strong as it is.

This is the second cup today, a post-lunch mug of white tea with vanilla and vanilla stevia extract. ^_^ I decided to have this one because my sweet tooth still hadn’t stopped bothering me. What I wasn’t counting on was the taste of it waking up my muses. They’ve been asleep for a while now, making it so that my last writing was a meager four hundred words…when I average a thousand on a slow session, that’s pathetic! Today, it’s even worse than before, and now that my muses are actually awake, something tells me that I will be writing until it’s time to turn in. That’s really not so bad, when you stop to think about it, except when I have to remember that I have to get up and do something about this knee.

Yesterday at work, I twisted it-no idea how, there wasn’t even any weight on the damn thing at the time-so today I have to make sure I move it at least a little bit, so that it doesn’t get stiff and lock up, which is bad for working. Couldn’t get on it for most of the day today, because it wanted to keep sliding on out of joint…without that thing working my day was essentially a lot of sitting around. So what else is there to do then but to rant?

I haven’t been able to keep this zip code straight for a while now. I’ve been planning to order some teas lately, but without the PROPER zip code I can’t do that. So the last few days I’ve been getting it straight, so that I can get the order. I’ll be ordering some lotus tea, first. I’m skipping chakras, I realize, but this tea is going to be a ritual aid, for the most part. Imagine what that could do in the proper use…two heavy cups of lotus tea, just before a midnight dancing ritual…

*keyboard smash* Jeez. And I know just which dance I’d do on that one. That is, if I still had my senses after drinking that tea. Yeesh, dudes. Definitely not a tea that would assist in weapons!dances. I wouldn’t want to be blazed holding an athame, that’s for certain. (…that reminds me, I have to see about getting my athame and junk back…whenever I get my place, or even before, I want to be sure that I have my tools. I’ve been having the urge to do more rites and stuff, and though I know that I don’t need the tools, I want to do something BIG, and I feel like having them there as a reminder would be most helpful. I’ve got so many things in mind, that I want to be sure that I’m armed to the proverbial teeth.

…Seeing as I’m rambling more than ranting, I think I’ll stop and get some more writing done. ROFL