1/10/08 Part II

I think I'm going to have to change my tea consumption at work. Drinking the whole pot of tea, two and a half cups, sends me to the bathroom at least 3 times, and sometimes 4. It's interfering with my productivity at work. I could drink it at home at night after my son goes to bed, so I can stay up, but not too late, to do some writing. Keeping this blog is a first step to my writing. I'm still trying to get into a routine after getting my son back less than 5 days ago. Maybe a tea ritual will be a help to that.

On a separate note, I really like how Adagio has created a tea community, with their different websites with the different themes.

1/10/08

Sigh. I'm running almost completely out of tea. I may buy the Twinings Earl Grey loose leaf just to get me by until I decide on the Adagio varieties I want next. I may also buy their English Breakfast, just to see if it's any different from the variety that they sell in tea bags. It's at the grocery store, which is something. It's the only loose leaf that's there. I'm still leary of going to Teavana because of the expense...on the other hand, there's a few tea rooms in the area that may have some loose leaf...I'll have to try those. Saturday maybe I'll go out see what I can find.

Today I had just the ceylon sonata...a bit strong, though. I knew it when I was making it that it would be strong...I wish I could resolve the many trips to the bathroom after drinking two and a half cups of tea in the morning...

1/9/08

Cafe con leche today. My two least favorite teas are still sitting on my desk: Darjeeling #22, and Ceylon Sonata. I've got to bite the bullet and spend some serious money on the Golden Monkey, and a few other teas. It will turn into a $50 order by the time I'm done. But I'll have lots of tea, hopefully for longer than a month. If I spend $15 month on the samplers like I've done, then it will turn out to be 15 x 12 = $180/year!

Maybe buying in quantity will help...

Jan 8, 2008

I mixed the last of my Assam Harmony and Darjeeling...it turned out pretty good. I liked it a lot. It was strange at first, but then it turned out well.

I sent another email to adagio:

Hi Russell,


Thank you for your note. Unfortunately we do not any suggestions for
recycling the sample tins, nor do we offer a recycling program. As you may
know we do offer refills of our larger tins. We know that other customers
have discussed what can be done with used sample tins at www.teachat.com.
Maybe they would be the best people to ask. Hope what little information we
had to offer may be of help :)

Thank you for visiting Adagio Teas!

Kind regards,

Customer Service
http://www.adagio.com



Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:32:07 -0500
To: Adagio Teas
Subject: E-mail

Hello! I wrote you a week or two ago...here's another: what do I do with all
of the tea tins? When they are empty, it seems a shame to have to throw them
in the trash. Do you take them back for recycling? Or do you know if there are
local programs that would?

Thanks for being so great!

Russell

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They are great. I added my blog to their list o' blogs...so this hopefully means I'll get some readers. I read a few of the other tea blogs with more than 30 posts, and they are nice, with pictures...I wonder where they get those pics from. I haven't put anything nice like that together...not sure I could.

Lately I'm thinking I need to develop some kind of contact out in India...or maybe explore teas grown in the US...wikipedia seems to think that tea is grown here, but I can't imagine where...

1/6/08

I'm running out of tea from Adagio...I'll have to order more. The other day when I had that tea I felt overall much better, rather than simply hyped up on caffeine. I wasn't jittery, or anything else...I was just "up".

Meanwhile, I can't believe I haven't written here for a while. I need to have some of the same teas for here at home, and at work. I miss them when I'm at home. I have the very low quality Darjeeling and Nilgiri from the Soulard market, and I don't like drinking it. Maybe I'll buy some of the Nilgiri from Adagio, if they sell it, and see how it tastes.

I've gone through most of the tea that I bought in about a month. $15/month for tea. Youch! I still have the Darjeeling #22 in the greatest quantity...I'm not real impressed by that one. So I've waited until I'm out of all of the other tea...