They say you should never go grocery shopping when you’re hungry, and that you should always stick to your list: but what about making your list when you’re hungry? Right now I’m making a grocery list for myself for after I get off work: but I’m STARVING so I keep adding things like “cinnamon buns” or “mozza sticks” and then thinking to myself, “no, self, you don’t NEED mozza sticks – you should cross that off the list”.
At the same time I’m drinking this tea. I realized I had a TON of it still, so I steeped some up in my timolino. I used a generous 2 tsp. for the timolino steeping in boiling water for seven minutes or so. It’s still nice and hot as I’m drinking it. I have to say though, I’m a little dissapointed. Maybe I’ve spoiled myself by drinking DAVIDsTEA’s Choconut Oolong too much recently – because the licorice (which is my favourite thing with this tea) seems much less tasty in comparrison to the licoricey notes in Choconut Oolong. Boo. And, the rest of the tastes in this tea have always just been mediocre and average for me (and truthfully, a little “broth like”). So, combine mediocre chamomille with a broth/stock like feel to it with a less than exceptional licorice taste and you get…
Meh.
At least this one is still realling good for late at night (no caffiene) and fighting off colds/illness. It’s still got that going for it. Dang: I hate when I spoil a tea I used to love with a new, and less available (or worse, like in this case, limited edition) one! Now I’m all pouty…
Unrelated:
The mall has been playing Christmas carols for the last few days – and I’ve been kind of happily singing along: but they’re finally starting to grate on my nerves and feel tedious and repetitive now. Like, how many times in one day can you listen to “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” before you want to stab yourself in the ears. I’ve heard it SIX TIMES so far today, and the day’s not done. I can’t imagine how much I’m going to resent carolers by the time Christmas actually hits. At least switch up the songs: it’s been the same 10 Christmas carols basically all day…
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My sympathies about the carols. When I worked at the Body Shop the mall seriously only had two cd’s that they played adnauseum. At Christmas our gift wrapping table was at the front of the store so if you were working there you that’s what you were stuck listening to. In our store though we had control of the music so we tended to avoid too much Christmas music. I think we only had The Messiah, the rest was a mix of whatever we felt like depending on who was working. It was kind of nice not to be limited by the satellite systems they have now. I think the only station we could agree on at the store I worked at between India and Ecuador was an acid jazz/ trip hop station. To be quite honest we were often complimented for not playing Christmas music.
You make an excellent point about making a grocery list when you’re hungry. Just as dangerous as walking into a store hungry, for sure.
That is what I can’t stand about working retail, is having to hear the same 20 songs all over and over and over throughout the day. And it’s only November!
Grocery shopping is complete! I think I mostly stuck to reasonable things, but I did cave a buy a bag of mozza sticks and the supplies to bake a maple pecan cake (which I am now baking).
My sympathies about the carols. When I worked at the Body Shop the mall seriously only had two cd’s that they played adnauseum. At Christmas our gift wrapping table was at the front of the store so if you were working there you that’s what you were stuck listening to. In our store though we had control of the music so we tended to avoid too much Christmas music. I think we only had The Messiah, the rest was a mix of whatever we felt like depending on who was working. It was kind of nice not to be limited by the satellite systems they have now. I think the only station we could agree on at the store I worked at between India and Ecuador was an acid jazz/ trip hop station. To be quite honest we were often complimented for not playing Christmas music.
You make an excellent point about making a grocery list when you’re hungry. Just as dangerous as walking into a store hungry, for sure.
That is what I can’t stand about working retail, is having to hear the same 20 songs all over and over and over throughout the day. And it’s only November!
Grocery shopping is complete! I think I mostly stuck to reasonable things, but I did cave a buy a bag of mozza sticks and the supplies to bake a maple pecan cake (which I am now baking).