Tea Time

As I've posted before, I am not a coffee drinker.  Yuck, yuck, yuckity, yuck.  Hate it.  Once I was carrying my mom's coffee and my tea in identical disposable cups with lids and accidentally took a big swig from the wrong cup.  As Rowley says "ZooooooWeeeeee Mama!!!"  I thought I'd never get that nasty taste out of my mouth.  Ugh. 

So, how do I get my kick in the morning?  Before I tell you.  Let me tell you about my friend who also hates coffee.  She hates coffee but has to have that caffeine.  So, she puts it in a big ole' cup and drinks it luke warm--through a straw.  This way, she does not taste it.  It always makes me laugh.  It does not make her sister laugh because she doesn't always put a lid on the giant cup with said straw and ends up sloshing it all over the console of the car. 

Anyway, back to me.  Tea!  I love tea.  I especially like to drink it in my special cup...but more on that later.

Yes, I love my vanilla chai from the coffee shop.  But, early in the morning, I love S T R O N G tea.  No sugar, no sweetener, no honey, but I do add cream or milk.  Irish breakfast tea #1, English breakfast tea #2.

Irish breakfast tea is a black tea, and is probably the strongest type of tea.  I checked out Twinings website and imagine my disappointment when I read that on average, one cup of black tea only has about half the caffeine of a cup of coffee.  Oh goody!  Now, I can have double!  Only half the caffeine of coffee?  Now I feel like an even bigger wimp!  Can't stand the taste of coffee and I can't handle the caffeine either.  Geez.

How do I make my tea?  Just stick that baby in the microwave?  Oh noooo noooo nooooo.  Once when I was on a trip to Pennsylvania with my mom, we stayed in a quaint little bed and breakfast.  It was in the heart of Amish country.  There were handmade quilts on the bed and the hardwood floors gleamed like mine never will.  It was peaceful and it was wonderful.  In the common area they had a glass covered tray of homemade oatmeal raisin cookies.  Sitting next to the cookies was a special ELECTRIC tea kettle filled with water.  Simply press the button and wait about 60 seconds for boiling water to pour over your tea bag.  Steep and enjoy.  Ahhh.  Side note:  This B&B was also in the "heart" of Gettysburg where you are told 100 bazillion times everyplace was a battlefield.  Where you are also told everyplace is haunted.  So, rather than sleep in two separate beds we crammed into one bed because that quaint little room with the handmade quilt and gleaming hardwood floors started to look mighty creepy at 11pm. 

Daytime..........

Night time........

Back to my tea.  After such a classy tea drinking experience...ok, I don't get out as much as I used to....I wanted one of them fancy electric kettles!  So, for Christmas one year, my mom bought me one.

Yikes, I need to clean this baby.

I love my tea kettle.  The water is perfect and the cup is not 100 degrees from microwaving.  So, we have the tea.  We have the kettle.  What about that cup I mentioned before?  Well, all my friends know I like tea.  One of my friends bought me that awesome cup.  Why is it awesome?  First of all, check out how cute it is!  Second, it is BIG.  Third, and yes, I am anal, the rim is curved and and allows the tea to smoothly flow into my mouth.  Ok, that's a little much, but I like the shape, alright? 

Now that you know how much I love this mug, imagine my horror when I see my husband using it to drink his.....COFFEE!!!  Now that he knows how much it irritates me, he does it as often as possible.

Haha!

So, today, I started looking on line for a special coffee mug for him.  Tell me what you think of these....

Because coffee makes everyone go....



www.cafepress.com



Best movie EVER......



www.cafepress.com



A little inspiration to start the day.......



www.cafepress.com



Wonder which one he'd like the best?

GIVEAWAY ALERT!!!  Make sure you mosey on over to my giveaway in a previous post.  You could win 4 free tickets to the Old West Festival!