Thursday, February 22, 2007

Thursday Thirteen

1. If my husband outlives me, I hope he buys a coffee pot that turns off automatically, since I won't be here to go behind him and turn the thing off.

2. I don't drink coffee and never have. I think I've had maybe 10 cups in my entire life. And those were times I drank it just to be polite.

3. My husband drinks one cup of coffee every morning. He says it helps him, ah, you know. He makes his own breakfast and his own coffee every morning. Then I go behind him and clean up his mess and turn the coffee pot off. I'm fine with that; I don't like to get up at 5 a.m. like he does.

4. Tea is the drink of choice in our household.

5. Since we both stopped using sugar, our tea is unsweetened. Except my husband uses Splenda, which I won't use because I think it is poison.

6. Since I stopped caffeine a year ago, my tea is not only unsweetened, it is also decaf. Sometimes I get desperate and reach for the honey and then it's decaf and honeyed.

7. My favorite tea is Irish breakfast tea, but I have a hard time finding the decaf kind in the grocery store. I have to buy it at the speciality tea store.

8. My husband likes Lipton tea, the orange pecoe kind.

9. I have a friend who has a website all about tea.

10. A new coffee house opened up in Fincastle; I haven't been in it yet. I hope she serves something besides coffee.

11. I started drinking tea when I was about 12 years old. My parents don't drink tea but our neighbors did. They used very tall Rubbermaid glasses that stained brown from the tea. The tea was very southern and quite sweet. I thought it wonderful.

12. After I discovered I like tea, I started drinking instant tea because that is all my mother would bring home.

13. I did not set out to write about coffee and tea, but here it is anyway.

3 comments:

  1. Hello. I like tea and coffee.... all types of tea that I've tried so far.... and good coffee.

    Happy TT! Bed time for TC x

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  2. I've always associated drinking tea with being sick. Just a touch of milk and sugar, Lipton preferably, with buttered saltine crackers to dunk. Mom would give as breakfast when I was sick. Haven't had it in decades still could taste it.
    Not having a cigarette after my morning cups of coffee has by far been the hardest part of quitting.

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  3. I love the way the 13's evolve in a stream of consciousness.

    I read some of that blood type diet book that suggested my blood type should drink coffee. I tried but it didn't take. I even got the best stuff from the Harvest Moon. I hate the taste it leaves in my mouth. I'm a teetotaler from way back.

    Going to check out your friend's tea site.

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