So delicious.Drinking my green tea, baby. If I go a whole day...

So delicious.

Drinking my green tea, baby. If I go a whole day without drinking it, I actually feel…odd. Not ill exactly, but unlike myself. There is a strange, gnawing thirst that my imagination (or perception) tells me is coming out of my bones and no other drink will make it go away, though pure water helps the most.

It isn’t caffeine-related. If I drink a pop or something else caffeinated it doesn’t help. In fact, caffeine from other sources has been making me jittery lately, so I’ve pretty much switched to caffeine-free root beer for a sugar fix. And coffee only smells good.

I wonder what’s in it that I need so bad? What inspires that weird craving, that desire to simply feel normal? I have all the classic signs of an addict.

I lay down money for my green tea, too, actually importing it myself directly from Japan. The shipping is nearly equal to the cost of the tea itself, which is high-dollar stuff even in Japan. I will skip bills, be late on rent, anything but running out of green tea. I can’t even read the packages it comes in, but know what I get: Shincha (Spring tea), Kabusecha (shade tea), and one of the most expensive teas in all of Japan, Gyokuro (jade dew), which I am drinking now.

As I sit here Saturday morning making my monthly purchase from Shizuoka Prefecture, I have discovered a way around the high shipping costs: buying in wholesale amounts. Like, getting it by the damn bale.

Has it really come to this point? Is my addiction really so out of control that I’m actually on the internet buying a BALE of green tea?

Yer darn tootin’ it has.

*goes and gets debit card*