sunnykerr

I do mean "drink more tea" not "buy more tea." Lord knows I have enough.

MsPerfectionist

haha i should do the same

sunnykerr

I mean, I know I've sponsored at least one child of David's Tea owners through university... I should put to use what I have.

Not right now, though. I made the mistake of having an absolutely lovely cup of herbal tea Tuesday night past my official cut-off time and I was up all night going to the bathroom. Darn pea-sized bladder.

MsPerfectionist

when is your cut-off time?

i know what you mean. i try to have tea before 8:30pm. also avoiding black tea but i still love it especially in Ireland. i don't sleep though lol.

sunnykerr

My official cut-off is 8 o'clock, but I'll allow myself some leeway. Nothing with caffeine or too sweet past that hour, but I will drink.

I swear, though, at least half of it is psychological. A single mug of tea can't possibly have me need the bathroom through the night. Especially since I know for a fact that I can fall asleep on a full bladder from actual experience. So I think it's just that I don't want to wake up during the night, so drinking "late" puts me on edge. And because I'm on edge, I don't sleep as soundly. So I wake up to use the bathroom.

MsPerfectionist

sunnykerr

Drinking any tea lately?

MsPerfectionist

i had DT's hot chocolate Pu'erh.

sunnykerr

Do you like it? I am ambivalent about the chocolate-flavoured teas. I keep buying (and drinking) them, so I'm obviously not that ambivalent. But I do feel ambivalent.

MsPerfectionist

it's enjoyable. something i'd have from time to time. it also reminds me memories of someone. Mr. hot chocolate pu'erh, we enjoyed breakfast together with a cup of that tea. there's also Mr. Earl Grey.

sunnykerr

Nice. To have had the social life to associate certain teas with certain people...

All I have is a dad who used to be all about the Salada brand and a mother who'd bring out her box of herbal teas when we had visitors, which made me feel so sophisticated.

MsPerfectionist

yeah

ahh Salada! we all have been there. my former mother-in-law likes it too. my mom likes Tetley for many years.

sunnykerr

I don't mind green tea in teabags. And there was a kind of Earl Grey I liked in teabags, too, but I can't remember the brand. It's Tetley or Lipton, for sure, though.

I just have so much loose leaf these days that it would be madness to go and buy teabags on top of that.

MsPerfectionist

for Earl Grey, i buy Twinings. haha that's what Mr. Earl Grey used to buy.

teabags used to be handy for my tea consumption at the office but since working from home, meh didn't matter anymore. but i realised i just drink less tea all together during working hours.

sunnykerr

Twinnings! It was Twinnings! It is so typical of me that I would have forgotten the brand's name.

I wasn't drinking as much tea towards "the end" of when we were working at the office last year, so inevitably I am drinking more tea now. But that was a low bar to clear.