Need to rant?

[Emma]

Now I'm going to have a chaiii.

[Becky]

I don't really like chai tea... I like herbal tea with honey in it. Yum.

I'm friggin hungry!

[Catamorandi]

I love chai tea. I was introduced to it last year by my case manager. I tried it, and I have loved it ever since. There are a lot of weird spices in it, which is probably why a lot of people don't like it. The mix of spices is my cup of tea. ;)

[Emma]

Heheh, I know someone who gets a:

Four pump, non fat, extra hot tazo chai.

[Becky]

I love spices, but there's just something odd about the taste of chai that doesn't agree with my tastebuds. But, maybe I just got a bad one, I've only ever tried it once.

[Emma]

You should at least try it two times.

[Becky]

(G)Emma wrote: "You should at least try it two times. "

What kind would you recommend?

[Emma]

What do you mean?

I like the spices, but they are a little too intense for me sometimes, although I've tried four pumps and it tastes exactly the same as normal to me.

[Becky]

When I tried it, I got it from Starbucks and wasn't really thrilled with it.

Which brand, or where do you get the one you like? Do you buy it in a store? What do you mean by "pumps"? Is it like a pre-mixed liquid?

We'll just play Chai Tea 20 Questions! :)

[Emma]

Ahhh! Well, I get Starbucks...and then when I want it at home I get Tazo from the grocery store.

[Becky]

No, neither one. :(

[Emma]

Yummm, hot chocolate...

I don't drink coffee, only chai, hot chocolate, and LOTS of iced tea.

[Becky]

Oh, so Tazo is good? We do have that here, which I guess is a pre-mixed liquid. I'll try that one! :)

[Emma]

Peppermint tea is great too. So is Earl Grey Vanila.

:D

[Becky]

Tazo is a brand of tea products I guess. I see them all over the place here but I haven't tried them. :)

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

I usually stick to hot chocolate (I've found a good sugar-free one) or tea. Iced in summer (I use a variety that's blended to make good iced tea), or hot this time of year. I like darjeeling in particular.

[Becky]

I have another rant. Sort of.

I'm eating fruit & yogurt, with almonds and granola for dinner. It's got fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries in it. It's delicious, except for the stupid teeny-tiny little blackberry seeds that keep getting stuck in my teeth! >:(

Really, seeds, is that necessary?

[Esther]

Becky wrote: "..Really, seeds, is that necessary? ."

Erh kinda ... if you want any more blackberries next year :0) Is it even possible to process out the seeds?
The strawberry season seems to be over here already before it even peaked and I can't remember the last time I saw fresh blackberries yummm.

[Esther]

Fiona wrote: ":/

I like normal tea. Good old builder's tea!"

I drink mostly coffee now but having been brought up a Brit the only real tea for me is the strong stuff bought off the supermarket shelf and served with a little milk.
(My granmother used to insist on bone china cups. I'm not that fussy but tea out of disposable = YUK!)

The only exception is Earl Grey without milk.

All the rest are herbal infusions which I don't really like. Hibiscus is all right mainly because it reminds me of Ribena and is great ice cold.
And I do make ice-tea with lots of fresh lemon in the summer.

Chai latte! Just the thought is enough to make me gag.

[Becky]

Esther wrote: "Erh kinda ... if you want any more blackberries next year :0) "

Hahaha! Of course, but still, they don't have to like MY teeth that much!

[Kandice]

When I was a girl, I used to make raspberry jam and preserves with my grandma. My favorite part was "de-seeding" the berries. There's this cone shaped, metal sieve, and a wooden "pestle " thingy. You put int he berries and just pestle the crap out of them! The seeds stayed in and the berry got through the little holes. It was so much fun!
I was pretty easy to entertain:)

[Jeane]

(G)Emma wrote: ":D Thanks Emilee.

Yum...tea."

Feeling better/ I am okay again. The vitamine c is helping, taking it still tomorrow but then again without. Or maybe not becasue now the monthly girls tingy is there again so I ahve to see if it takes a lot fo energy or if it is okay. For now I am okay, so maybe I won't need the vitamines.

[Jeane]

(G)Emma wrote: "Now I'm going to have a chaiii."

don't like chai tea either.

[Becky]

What are yogs?

[Jeane]

(G)Emma wrote: "Peppermint tea is great too. So is Earl Grey Vanila.

:D "

it is funny that you all have been busy about tea now as I jsut got a big enveloppe from my boyfriend's mum full of tea bags. My favourite in it is a Twinnings ginseng, vanilla and...ribes nero ( one of those blue little ball fruits) and then camomilla but a kind of powder but the one i adore you can only buy in the village there in Italy or some of the small, certain brand of supermarkets in Italy......I am so happy ebcuase those two were practically finished. And the camomilla one si need when I have belly pain or actually jsut my periods and the other one, the twinings one too as it gives me energy and is not heavy for my stomach in the morning.

[Emma]

Tea...yummyyyyyyyy.

Jeane, I hope you feel better!

[Jeane]

Thanks Emma. I do feel better but now i am tired of having been at work after a very relaxed nice weekend. And my periods just started but ebcause i have been feeling ill I lost strenth and energy to not feel too tired and so now. But well, I have a whole enveloppe full of tea to make me feel better!!!! And I think finally I don't have any training classes anymore for this week!!!!

[Emma]

I had my period when I had a really bad cold, it was not fun.

A whole envelope...

I think I'm going to disobey my rule about reading all three Libba Bray books without reading any other books in between, and read The Jane Austen Book Club.

Then I will be closer to finishing all my owned to-reads!

[Kandice]

I don;t mean you got ALL the seeds out, but some of them. Raspberries have soooooo many seeds, that when you are making the jam, it's just too much. I like some seeds. I think you are saying yogs for yogurt, and I like the kind with real fruit, including seeds too! I hate the kiddie kind that are smooth and uniform. Well, I like vanilla and banana and those are smooth, but....

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

They do make seedless blackberry and raspberry jams - you might try those.

[Becky]

Fiona wrote: "Yogs = yoghurt
spagbog = Spaghetti Bolongnese "

uh huh... I don't know if I could bring myself to eat something called "spagbog". :\

[Kandice]

I could! I love that name! We are having baked ziti for dinner, and my kids call it zits!(isn't that a lovely mental picture?) If we can eat that, we could eat anything.

[Kandice]

My children each have an I-Pod, as does my husband, (varying degrees of expense) I, however have probably 4 crummy, cheap mp-3 players, because I can't seem to take care of them! I lose them for weeks, forget them in jacket pockets, get them wet, whatever. My phone has a built in music player, but I don't know how to add songs, so I have to rely on one of my children to do it.
I'm impressed you haven't lost the thinkg before now!

[Kandice]

What with all the books in there.... My husband likes to put things on my bookshelves above the books, right below the next shelf. He always gets irritated when he can't find whatever it is and then gets all squawky with "Who moved my whatchaacallit? Why is anyone touching MY thingamabob?" Then I dust on the weekend, and...endless thingamambobs and whatchamacallits!

[Becky]

Haha! I do that too...

[Becky]

I hide stuff in my books because books are like kryptonite to Thomas... He touches one and then he falls instantly asleep.

[Kandice]

My husband always keeps a book on his nightstand. (Grisham, Cornwell, Patterson, something like that)He reads before turning the light out, once in a blue moon, but it drives me crazy. First, he gets through, maybe, one novel every six months that way. How does he remember what he read so long ago? Second, he stops anywhere. He doesn't wait for a break in the writing, let alone an actual chapter. He gets sleepy and shuts the book. I CAN NOT do that!!!! I've read hours past when I really wanted to waiting for a break in the story. MEN!!!!

[Becky]

He's not really following the story, he's just using the last little bit of eye-energy he has. When that's all gone, he goes to sleep!

[Kandice]

Exactly. What a waste. I have to say, I prefer that to him watching t.v. those last few minutes. If it were up to me there would be NO t.v. except in the living room. I could never fall asleep reading or watching t.v.

[Becky]

Thomas likes to watch TV or listen to music to fall asleep to. I can't stand it either, I can't ever fall asleep to anything other than quiet, or maybe traffic sounds - white noise, you know what I mean.

The kicker is that he turns it on, falls instantly asleep, and then I'm left listening to it. But, if I turn it off, he wakes up and gets grumpy. So I just don't let him turn it on. There's no point when it takes him 0.002 seconds to fall asleep anyway!

[Kandice]

Too funny! Sounds just like my house. How the heck do they know you turned it off? I don't know if Thomas snores, but Vinny does. Hw can that not wake him up, but if I gently *laughs* nudge him, he startles awake! Sometimes I will softly hold his nostrils closed to make him stop. I can get away before he realizes I am why he woke up and then...0.002 seconds later he's asleep again.

[Becky]

He does. Its terrible. Like cats fighting each other to the death with chainsaws while being run over by lawnmowers.

Ok, so its not really THAT bad, haha, but its bad. Occasionally I have to banish him to the living room.

[Esther]

Kandice wrote: "...Then I dust on the weekend, and...endless thingamambobs and whatchamacallits! ..."

You dust? I gave that up years ago - nasty habit :0)

[Esther]

My husband doesn't get home til 8pm and sometimes I'm the same so after cooking, eating and getting the children to bed it is close to 10pm.
Then we chose what to watch - he is alot pickier than me.
Finally we start to watch something and after about 15 minutes he is asleep. I don't mind but when he starts to snore so loudly I can't hear the TV I insist he goes to bed.
Occasionally I hear my daughter talking in her sleep as well.

[Kandice]

Becky wrote: "He does. Its terrible. Like cats fighting each other to the death with chainsaws while being run over by lawnmowers.

Ok, so its not really THAT bad, haha, but its bad. Occasionally I have to banis..."


In my house, when the snoring gets too bad, I go to the living room. He used to go out there, but as our children get older, they don't sleep like rocks anymore. The living room is right in the middle, so if he is banished there, EVERYONE can hear him. If I just quietly sneak out, everyone gets to sleep.

[Kandice]

Esther wrote: "Kandice wrote: "...Then I dust on the weekend, and...endless thingamambobs and whatchamacallits! ..."

You dust? I gave that up years ago - nasty habit :0)"

We have hardwood floors throughout our house, so the dust is insidious! I love the floors, but never realized how much dust carpet trapped for you!

[Esther]

Kandice wrote: "We have hardwood floors throughout our house, so the dust is insidious! I love the floors, but never realized how much dust carpet trapped for you!"

We have stone floors and only one small rug for decoration.
Israel is a dust bowl and the dust is actually very fine earth that turns to mud if you wipe it with a wet cloth.
Once I cleaned my bookshelf and then sat with my stop watch. It took 40 mins for a thin layer of dust to resettle - that was the last time I dusted!

[Kandice]

I know it's futile, but... My husband says it's a sickness! I know what you mean about the wet cloth. It's incredibly dry where we live, and if I don't have a super dry cloth, I leave tracks. Don't even get me started on windows...

[Jeane]

(G)Emma wrote: "I had my period when I had a really bad cold, it was not fun.

A whole envelope...

I think I'm going to disobey my rule about reading all three Libba Bray books without reading any other books..."

Emma, whenever I am not feeling well it seems to be near to having the moment of my periods so that all my energy is already taken away by one of the two!

[Jeane]

Fiona wrote: "Mine keep on breaking. My ishuffle broke after one year, then my next one broke and then this other one never worked properly from the day I took it out the box.(I since got another one for really ..."

maybe it aren't the products.....:-)