This is a backlog from yesterday, as I’m clearly behind. But I was pretty irritable for most of yesterday morning, because this tea wasn’t all that great in my travel mug, and also the lid of my travel mug smelled very strongly of mint because the person at the store sold me “triple mint” flavoured dencher tablets even though I had her double check that the ones she picked up were unflavoured. Whatever. I’ve since purchased unflavoured ones, but my tea at work experience was rather marred by the stupid mint flavour (which was sort of fighting the prior sugar and spice tea flavour that I was trying to get rid of in the first place) and uggh. I’ve posted about this on the boards, but thought I’d ask here: do you guys soak your lids and stuff in this dencher tablet water several times to remove smells? I’m subjecting the lid of my timolino to a pretty intense regime this weekend, I think. What an annoying problem. It’s the silicone lid, I think, more than anything. And it only retains the smell of particularly strong teas (with ginger in them, for instance).
So yeah, this tea sample is being whittled down, which makes me happy. Not an awful English breakfast by any means, but just not special enough or memorable enough.
Half day at work today!
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Well, it’s been slightly over six months since I’ve joined steepster, and I can’t say enough wonderful things about this community. Like many of you, I began my foray into the world of loose-leaf tea by discovering David’s Tea, and although I’ve ventured out and have discovered many other companies that I’m extremely fond of, there are still many of David’s teas that I hold close to my heart and I will always appreciate it as a starting point for my journey.
As for my preferences, I tend to prefer bold black tea, flavoured and unflavoured alike, and I almost always take my blacks with cream and sugar. This isn’t to say that I don’t enjoy a good, flavoured white though, and I’m slowly making my way through the incredibly confusing world of oolongs and greens. I am also not a fan of rooibos, although I am starting to suspect green rooibos may be ok, but you know how it is: when you’ve decided you detest a certain ingredient, you’ll notice it everywhere—perhaps even where it doesn’t exist!
Things other than tea: I’m engaged to be married to my best friend, and feel like the richest woman on the planet because of it. I am also a veracious reader, and I also happen to have an obsession with fragrances, and have amassed quite a collection, although it pales in comparison to some collections out there! As a result of this obsession, I also follow several fragrance blogs, and am always up for a chat about scent. I’m also almost completely blind, and this does indeed mean that I come complete with a guide dog, who unlike me, hales from the sunny California campus of Guide dogs for the Blind. I think I’ve rambled on long enough, but if there’s anything you’d like to know or if you just feel like chatting to someone, please don’t hesitate to send me a message.
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Ontario, Canada
