Tardis Tea (From Adagio)

Once again I have found myself procrastinating in the library whilst cuddling with a bottle of delicious tea. Today I am accompanied by Tardis tea from adagio. I was ecstatic when I received this tea as a late Hanukkah present, after my positive experience with the Eleven tea of which I have previously written. The Tardis tea offers a fantastical spin off a classic earl grey. The tea is a blend that includes: black tea, white tea, blueberries, orange peels, blue cornflowers, and is embellished with natural bergamot, vanilla, blueberry, caramel and cream flavors. It is something I categorize as a dessert tea, meaning that is is something I drink when I want to eat a dessert but don't have any accessible to me. It is called Tardis tea because like the Tardis in Doctor Who the packaging has more on the inside than expected. Unlike the most recent season of Doctor Who this tea never disappoints. 

This picture features me with my favorite water bottle. It has a glass interior and a bamboo exterior which can be removed so that the interior can be placed in the dishwasher. It is a pinnacle of convenience in my busy tea drinking life. 

Tea Tags

One of my more lovely friends has acquired the habit of collecting tea tags and making zines out of them. Since she does not drink enough non-looseleaf tea on her own to feed this urge to collect, I have gotten into the habit of saving tea tags for her. Just about every time I send her a letter I put the array of tea tags I've collected since my last letter in the bottom of the envelope. Collecting tea tags is a bit of a challenge for both of us, since we both prefer loose leaf teas. Fortunately my roommate has a surplus of bagged tea so she has henceforth aided us in the pursuit of this collection.

The tea package featured above with the tea tags belongs to a Licorice Peppermint herbal tea from Choice Organic Tea (my school's preferred tea brand.) I happened upon said package on the ground as I made my way out of the library on a brisk winter day. Seeing that it was both sealed and a tea I had never encountered I scooped it up. I swiftly returned home to brew it. It turned out to be just what I needed in that moment. The licorice and the peppermint circled around each other an enticing manner, drawing me in to their dance. The licorice added a depth to the peppermint that I hadn't experience before. I've been meaning to try it again ever since, but for some reason the moment has not yet arrived.

London Fog (Made With Choice Organic Teas)

I started today off mostly asleep. I was dreaming about swimming and it was such a lovely dream that  getting up and going to the first day of my beginning martial arts class seemed borderline impossible. To remedy this situation I made myself a cup of Townshend's pear green tea. I had just stared sipping it when I realized the time had come to leave the comfort of my cozy kitchen for my voyage to campus. I poured my tea into a travel mug as I flitted to and fro, gathering my belongings. Unfortunately by the time I reach my class my travel mug was no longer on my person. In my hurry I had abandoned it on my kitchen counter. I was still not awake enough to consider simply going without tea until the conclusion of my classes for the day, so after martial arts I meandered down to one of plethora of coffee shops my school harbors. I gazed lustfully at a brown sugar mocha but I knew what I had come for: a London Fog. 

I had seen London Fogs on menus around campus for about 6 months before I first sipped one. It took me that long to try one because I wasn't sure what they were and at the time I mostly frequented coffee shops for the purposed of purchasing actually coffee. Then towards the end of the school year -after 

I had given up coffee- I had an assignment in my Nutrition class to tell the class about a favorite drink and its nutritional value. I talked about Jasmine Tea and then one of my classmates present a diagram of a London Fog. Its components included earl grey tea, vanilla syrup and steamed milk. I was sold. I immediately started using London Fogs to fill the hole my mochas, lattes and cups of coffee with a lot of sugar had left. 

So here I am: in the library procrastinating a essay, slightly less asleep with a charming, comforting, caffeinating, London Fog.