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My friend Caitlin, my roommate Laura, and I had a makeshift tea party at dinner tonight. Caitlin and I had this tea. We had it hot and plain.

It was pretty good. It was a little sweeter than I am used to with just a hint of tart punch at the back of your throat. I normally don’t really like blueberries, but this was pretty good. I have a hunch that it would make an awesome summer iced tea.

I joined a pride group at school this semester. At our first meeting we made our own felt door banners that are similar to the banners that other bigger clubs have made at our school. So this is a school thing. Our banners said GLOW because our pride group is called GLOW (Gays, Lesbians, or Whatever)

So, I had put my banner on my door on sunday and everything was nice. It was red with a pink banner with the letters spelling GLOW in the middle on some brown pieces of felt and a little rainbow ribbon in the corner. This morning, I came back from the bathroom and noticed that my banner was missing. Of course, I was upset. Eventually I made another sign out of paper and colored pencil (this time the background is rainbow)

So, after a day like this, sometimes you just need a big MUG of comforting tea.

Backlogging from Dinner:

Had this hot with milk with dinner. Very nice and comforting after a hard morning.

Made a tumbler of this before class with milk (a good portion of milk this time, not just a dribble). Ended up drinking all of it before class, but didn’t have enough time to get more water, milk, and tea to make another tumbler full. Apparently, today was a tea morning.

This isn’t very good. It tastes like really watered down apple cider. The apple part of this tastes more like a tart Granny Smith than anything. It is like the apple pies that are made entirely of Granny Smith apples with no sweeter apples to balance out the taste. Not very pleasant.

I’m dumping the rest of the teapot and I’m going to try to finish up this cup before work.

Correction: I’m dumping the rest of the cup too. It is not making my stomach happy.

Now that I am back in school, I have to get used to water heating methods. At lunch, we have a hot water spicket that we get hot water out of and the temperature is normally too hot for green tea. So, I got some and waited about two minutes for the water to cool and then put my tea bag in for about three minutes.

I’m not sure if it is because I have been drinking a lot of blacks and herbals that my green tasted funny. I think I should have the water cooled a little longer. I will try that for next time.

I’ll have a hard time getting my temperature right with my new kettle too because I am not entirely used to it yet. But I want my green tea and I am determined to learn how to make a good cup here at school.

It was a mistake to drink Numi Egyptain Golden Chamomile before trying this one. This one wasn’t as sweet. It also tasted almost dry in comparison. I didn’t like it as much. It was a pretty color though. It was a nice light brown.

I must have been feeling homesick because when I thought of some tea to go with supper, I immediately opened my box and grabbed a bag of Constant Comment. Made with hot water from the water spicket, it was comforting and tasted nice.

I then went to one of my friend’s rooms to get some command strips and she gave me two tea samples to try: Twinings Herbal Revival: Cherries and Madagascan Cinnamon and London Fruit & Herb Rosehip with Hibiscus. They both sound good and I am looking forward to trying them. Especially with rosehip with hibiscus, which are both flavors I have been dying to try.

My mother is very picky about her tea. She has to drink decaf teas because she can’t handle caffeine anymore, but she doesn’t like Earl Grey. The last few times she has went out to eat at a restaurant with dad, they have given her a decaf Earl Grey. The second and third time that they did this to her, she remembered that I dearly love the Earl and decided to give me the teabags. (I also have a sneaking suspicion that she is trying to de-caffinate me, but that is for another day)

I have been wanting Earl Grey to watch with my favorite sci-fi show Dr Who, so I decided to brew up a cup. For being a decaf tea, this was pretty darn good. It was rich and flavorful with the bergamot present but not overpowering. One of the best decaf teas that I have ever tasted.

I feel a little bad for trying all of these teas and not liking many by Bigelow. It doesn’t matter what flavors I try either. Almost all of them seem to be too weak for me.

Then again, almost every mint tea I have tried has been like that. This tea isn’t bad. It tastes mostly like an even-flavored black tea with a hint of mint flavor. I am rating this lower because I have been looking for a tea that screams MINT! to me. This one mumbles.