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'emmaree' wrote on '24:
Caffeine
Caffeine
Caffeine also in no particular order
Currently…
My medication 😛
My kith and kin
My iPhone 🙂
My iPhone (entertainment, essentials and communication in one small and convenient package!!)
My medication (helps me as I'd like to stay alive!!)
Cheetos (they make me smile!!)
Only 3 man you guys are tight lol
OK
1. COFFEE its what makes me function
2. MY FAMILY again its what makes me function
3. MY INTERNET CONNECTION it feeds my shopping habit
and there are many many more 🙂
'Martin' wrote on '31:1 – Tea! I like coffee, but could live without it.
Any particular tea? I'm quite fond of the maltier Assams to the point where there are single estates that I stick to. Also quite fond of Lapsang Souchong, Rose Pouchong, that old chestnut Earl Grey, black tea with apricot or black currant, sencha (Japanese green) and Dragon Pearl Jasmine.
I can't drink brewed coffee, as it does a number on my gut, but I loves me my lattes, with SF Hazelnut syrup & no foam. Most of the time, it's decaf, but some days, regular is required. While I wasn't able to ride in cars without a lot of hassle–especially with the knee scooter I had to use, and having to keep my foot UP–my husband or his mother would take my teal blue travel mug into a couple of different Starbucks, and they'd know who it was for, and what went in it! I was finally cleared for stairs–back to my own bed, at last, and ditch the mushroomy hospital bed in which I could never quite sit up AND the knee scooter–at the end of February, and then I could go in myself, as long as someone else drove. In the third week of March I was finally cleared for driving, and I was OFF.
I do need lattes or tea.
Without the Internet, would I still be alive? It's been the savior of many people, isolated by one thing or another.
Sunlight & the beauty of nature to watch.
'MarinaFournier' wrote on '04:Any particular tea?
I am a bog-standard black tea drinker. Here in the States I buy Tetley British Blend. Brew it up, add a splash of milk and I'm away!
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'Martin' wrote on '04:I am a bog-standard black tea drinker. Here in the States I buy Tetley British Blend. Brew it up, add a splash of milk and I'm away!
Does it taste the same as real British tetley tea bags do. I ask because we tried 'British' things when we lived in Germany and they didnt always taste wuite the same.
It's close. I find the real issue with teabags here in the States is there is significantly less tea in each bag than in the UK. The Tetley British Blend probably have the most tea in any bag I've had here. I am still surprised when I go to England to visit just how much more there is in each bag over there. It's an odd thing I am always surprised by!
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'Martin' wrote on '09:It's close. I find the real issue with teabags here in the States is there is significantly less tea in each bag than in the UK. The Tetley British Blend probably have the most tea in any bag I've had here. I am still surprised when I go to England to visit just how much more there is in each bag over there. It's an odd thing I am always surprised by!
I can easily go on a rant about US food service and their wrongheadedness about tea and teadrinkers. My MiL prefers her tea strong, as do I, but her late husband was happy enough to get his cup made after she'd used the teabag to her liking first. Made me shudder. Otherwise, he was as normal as what passes for that in our families!
However, it's possibly one of the following:
-Americans who drink tea are abnormal
-People who drink tea in the US need to have their heads examined, and thus won't notice that we're shorting them on the tea while charging them more than we charge coffee drinkers for refills
-It's a conspiracy by the anti-baggers to make you use full-leaf, which we will not make available to you in the US anyway.
What passes for tea service in most chain restaurants and cafes is criminal. I've even been in tea shops (once only, never returning) where the servers were clueless (and in one instance, where the proprieter was as well, and she was loudly complaining that no one appreciated her efforts. My friend and I looked at each other, and I said, “Well, if she *made* some efforts, we hadn't seen them”) about how to brew, serve, and present tea. I know enough about the joys and riches of running a food service establishment to know I am not going to be running or working in one if I have any say in the matter! Those metal tea “strainers”, cute shape or not, are too small to use enough tea leaf and allow it to expand the way it requires. Apparently, there's a belief in the industry that says Americans don't like having their food “touched”, thus you are presented with a cup of quickly cooling water next to an insipid tea bag of dustings and fannings, with nothing to put on top of the cup to keep the heat in while you steep the tea. It is often next to impossible to convince a server to put the teabag in the cup first, then pour truly hot water over it, instead of the usual way.
If you're lucky, you might get a poor excuse for a steel teapot, a “natural” tea with too much cinnamon oil in it, or find that the only “tea” they have is an herbal tisane. If you know you will be in hospital, bring your own teabags!
Three things I can't do without? This is a fun topic!
Personally, I can't do without…
1. Coffee and tea. (As much as I hate to admit;) A lot of it. I'm one of those people who always needs something to drink when I'm at the computer (which is pretty much all the time) and it has to be hot. Caffeine withdrawal= the bane of my existence.
2. My computer. All of my important work is done on here: writing, researching, comics, networking, website/blog upkeep, actual paid work (work-from-home type), etc. That, and almost all my leisure time is spent on here, too. (Online Scrabble, anyone?) I can't imagine how many hours on average I spend at the computer per week. Hm.
3. Youtube. I've made huge playlists of instrumental/classical music specifically to listen to while writing; I can't do without creative music! Especially when I'm home alone and the only sound is all the clocks' ticking. Music helps distract from some of that lonesomeness.
Those are the top three, but on second thought, I couldn't do without Friday karaoke or Monday LGBT group night at our local cafe. Those two times are the only time I get out of my house during the week (besides bi-weekly grocery shopping); they keep me sane from cabin fever.
'emmaree' wrote on '24:Caffeine
Caffeine
Caffeine also in no particular order
Cheers to that, mate.
'Martin' wrote on '21:Sun cream
Real ale
TV (on the blink)
I don't even watch much TV, but you sure do miss it when it's gone!
Oh, sun cream! How could I forget that in my own list? I never go a day without it, regardless of season.
'seenafterscene' wrote on '01:!. Caffeine (usually espresso or Diet Pepsi Max)
2. My Gadgets (I know this is cheating, but since I'm perpetually attached to BOTH my Blackberry and my iPod, I figured that would be easier.)
3. My stuffed animals (yes, I never grew out of that phase)
That's okay; I still have all my stuffed animals, too! (When you've kept a stuffed cat since you were seven, it's hard to give it up.)
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