That I knew there's going to be a siren test today (hour wasn't announced) meant that I managed to not sprint but does not mean that I haven't stopped breathing for a few seconds there. Was okay the second the damned noise stopped, but I think the siren is really really close to my house based on the volume and and I fucking hate noise even when it ( Read more... )

And because I ought to be organized about those things, yesterday's teapot was of some 500-700ml and had, in descending order, spearmint, verbena, lavender and chopped dry ginger. The spearmint and verbena were in my standard "large" quantity (5-7 large leaves), about 2tsp of lavender and 1-2tsp of ginger ( Read more... )

Have gotten my period. Bloody fucking finally. This pretty much explains the entire week. (Been aching since morning and thinking, if my muscles are sore like this and i'm not getting my period today, that's unfair ( Read more... )

It's still possible that this one will break sharply, but I think it won't ( Read more... )

So I finally arranged my tea herb information in one place. Cross-reactivity table, category breakdown and potency scale. It's a cross of information collection from various sources and my own observation ( Read more... )

15:40

So I wanted coffee, but apparently today coffee without cardamom wasn't an option, and the only proper way to get cardamom into coffee is to brew it.

( Coffee-brewing. )

For 750ml boiling water ( Read more... )

Oh, so that's why hyssop is so unhelpful for ordinary work purposes. It's like that problem I used to have in lectures - the lecture only took up about 30% of my available attention, and I had to fill up everything if I wanted to be able to follow on what's going on. Which was well in theory, but in practice I had the problem of whatever I was ( Read more... )

Oh my first cup of the Clarity tea, and kind of wondering why'd I ever try to experiment on what is clearly a perfect recipe ( Read more... )

12:39

Stipend patched through, went through CDBaby, finally-finally-finally has Caren Armstrong's Falling. I've been wanting this song for so long. Think something like since I disocovered Pandora, winter 2005. I'm going to be playing this one in repeats for a while.

"Pandora's box flies in on Cupid's wings today ( Read more... )