A Few of my Favor....THIS THERMOS ROCKS!

Back in the summer my boyfriend bought me this tea thermos from Teavana. It's a nice silver with a dragon motif that looks like it came off a Robin McKinley book. The really NEAT thing about it, though is that the inside is lined with Yixing clay.

I was super entertained by this and adored it. He also bought me some pricey Jasmine Oolong tea to go with it. Since I don't drink a lot of hot tea in the summer and didn't want to use up all my fancy tea I waited until it snowed to get it out (today).

I used several times this past summer and when I opened it the wonderful jasmine scent was still there. HOW COOL IS THAT?! You're supposed to use anything made with yixing clay with only one type of tea because the clay absorbs the flavor and the more you use it the more it seasons.  And it actually does! For some reason, I didn't believe it.

It's about 30$ at the store, but if you have money to blow on something tea related or want to buy someone a tea gift, you should check it out!

This is a picture of the clay inside:

This is my face when I tilt the thermos to show the clay and forget there's a little bit of water in it....and dump it all over my keyboard!

Hum Drum

Sadly this blog is slowly just becoming one more piece of internet detritus. Yet, it's not because I don't like to write. It's definitely not because I don't like being narcissistic.

I actually have a life now that involves a plethora of human interaction (much of which I'm opposed to, but alas. You do in fact have to deal with people you don't like in life.)

Which is surprisingly not as exciting as my rich inner life!! (Thank you, personality test.)

It's a bit hum drum. Actually doing homework, worrying about money, and doing chores. I'm a junior in college and not 16 I promise.

EXCLUSIVE!!!!

There's a million things that would be a good idea for me to use this blog as an outlet for... How hard life is during a depression (economic), how difficult holding together can be, the experience of being enlightened to the fact that life is not ruled by societal rules, people are..... BUT I'm going to blog about my hair instead.

I got it cut much shorter than I usually wear it, and I share it with you my dedicated readers who are numerous and bountiful my cup is overrunning!!!! Before and after! The second picture is cheesy so exclusively on this blog and not Facebook!!! (That's right, readers, exclusive content).

Empty Chairs

I have a tendency to be disturbed by completely immaterial things. Immaterial things being things that I know that are there but I only see out of the peripheral vision of my mind.

I don't like to swim in my pool at night because I once saw a white vested silhouette in that general area. I'm not saying that seeing that figure that is rational, but if YOU saw it would you go back out there at night? That would be irrational to invite myself to die of a heart attack when something like a grasshopper leaped out of nowhere and I thought I was being attacked by ectoplasmic insects.

I don't like to look out of my peep hole as has been mentioned before.

And I feel great uneasiness from an empty chair. An empty chair even in broad daylight can disconcert me on imaginative days. Is an empty chair not an invitation for just anything  to sit in it? If you don't believe me google image empty chairs.

Kaleidoscope Shrooms

Are not, in fact, a long lost Beatles song. I've been spending the summer trying to find ways to eat more plants by eating wild ones. (Which has boiled down to: wild plants are gross. With the notable exceptions of plants I'd been eating for years and dandelion petals).

I love mushrooms, and of course, they grow EVERYWHERE. So I thought, hey, I'll eat some of them! But upon further reading realized I couldn't distinguish between them well enough and could wind up with a delicious grilled fungus or secret rubbery death!!!

While still in the investigation stages, I found this fellow (Manderly the Mushroom) in the yard and it was quite lovely if stinky on the inside. This mushroom is actually edible before its spore stage (or so some very badly designed blogs tell me).

Listening

Dark Comes Soon by Tegan and Sara is one of the best songs ever.

When Tiny Crabs Attack