Ugh. No tea this morning. Coffee. Haven't had coffee since the last time I got up as some gods-forsaken early hour or after not having gone to bed in the first place.

It's pleasant in moderation. :).

Tim Horton's coffee. Mom always buys the stuff. Did you know Starbucks gives out samples if you ask? I investigated their "blonde roast" to see what was up with it.

Wow. I'm in Canada, so we have Tim Horton's all over the place (known as "Timmy's" up here). I used to work at one. ;). I'm in Vancouver too, which has the infamous Starbucks kitty-corner from the other Starbucks.

I'm eating spice cake from my tea party yesterday. I love the stuff! Friend got me some new teas from "David's Tea" which is on another side of town from me, but they're neat things. One is a green tea tied in little butterflies, so it looks like a little bundle of knots, and another "Black Gold" or something like that, has gold and silver sugar candies that supposedly make the tea shimmer as it steeps. Haven't tried it yet, but I'm curious. :).

My sister also brought over some Cream Earl Grey and some Lapsang Suchong. My grandfather lived off the stuff (the suchong) but I seem to be able to only have so much of it before I need to switch to something else. I like it mixed with half black tea.

Oooo those teas you mentioned sound really good. I love the teas I have now. I'm hoping when I go to grad school in the Fall, my family will send me off with a bunch :)
I think the campus I'm going to has 2 timmys on it ^^ Which is good. I do enjoy their stuff. Though I will miss Starbucks. Which is fine. I don't mind not having too much to choose from. Less temptation to waste my campus meal plan money :P

We had two Timmy's on campus, one or two Starbucks I think (never did explore all the campus), a couple other chain coffee stores, and a couple run by various university departments. I think there is pretty much one in each bulding, or within a short walking distance of each one. Little corner kiosks abound everywhere.

COFFEE! *invade invade invade!* I like coffee better, but since I got sick now I can only have decaffeinated coffee. I don't miss the other kind though. I do sometimes sneak some pop that is caffeinated. But for the most part - I don't really have much at all.

My university where I got my undergrad, we had a Tim Hortons express, a Starbucks, and an alumni run coffee shop which had 4 total places. Then the campus food place did not re-up the contract of the coffee place. So, we ended up with the food service the food service thing on campus running the coffee shops and in a year they'll have a full tim hortons on campus. The alumni company has a coffee shop/restaurant down the road from the school (and it serves wine). The village also had a tea/coffee shop near by.
The town outside of the campus had a Dunkin Donuts, a Tim Hortons, and was starting construction on a Tim Hortons express next door to the Dunkin Donuts :P

I dunno what the layout of stuff is on the campus I'll be going to this coming year :P

gah! computer issue double post :/

Yeah, that's been happening a lot lately.

EDIT: Ack! I just realized I left my teas at home! Dammit!

Oh well. At least I have the perma supply that lives in my carry-on duffel. Farm sitting for my sister. She's as bag about strong tea as I am, but does not gave doctors giving her the evil into cutting down.

A few weeks ago I found some catnip tea online. It took a while for me to actually GET it thanks to some shipping problems, but I love it. I don't know if it's because it's really good or I just like the smell and flavor of catnip already though ...

Probably both. I find that teas with herbs or spices I like generally translate well, but fruits do not for the most part. Exceptions are apple, mango, lemon, and orange. Mostly. ;)

I'm trying this thing called "Canadian Breakfast" tea. I don't really know what's about it that makes it Canadian, though the package does say blended an packed in Canada (nothing about growing or harvesting here though. Not really a surprise). Also not sure what distinguishes it from Red Rose which likes to pride itself on being Canadian in the first place.

Red Rose has a tea car. The pot lit on the top is cute but the spout on the hood is kinda disturbing, really. Unforuntately, an image of said tea car is proving elusive.

-drinking lemongrass tea right now- ...Uhm. Not too great a flavor x__X;

Any of you ever had ginseng tea?

Not straight, just mixed with stuff, usually lemon. In fact, I had a heck of a time finding lemon tea without ginseng in it. I`m not supposed to have ginseng because it increases your heart rate.

Ah whoops. -loves ginseng tea- Actually I love ginseng in general. -steals dry slices from the cache and noms just that-

...I'm weird.

Think I ran out of chamomile tea...I'll probably have boxes of that stocked up in college for sleep purposes.

I like ginger. I'm probably not supposed to have much of that either but I do anyway. :). Though usually it's pickled ginger with sushi. If I'm feeling particularly maschostic I have pickled ginger and wasabi. I'm still not sure why.

-never really liked ginger-

There're some things where, if the ginger flavor is really, really subtle, okay, fine, I'll drink/eat it, but usually...it's not a favorite of mine. Well, actually, certain ginger-ful dishes are okay with me, if they're Chinese cuisine or something.

I like ginger candies now and then, the chewey kind, so long as they don't burn too much. Thanks to my now rebellious stomach I at least mildly nautious relatively often and ginger helps that.

My family will stock me with enough tea to last a year when I go away to school. I do want to get more chamomile tea.

I have some around but I keep forgetting about it. I usually prefer Sleepy Time tea instead when I'm in the mood for something like that. Although, I did have some chamomile white chocolate that makes me wonder how it would be in some white hot chocolate. Friends at the coffee shop I used to work at would often steep green tea into a cup of hot chocolate.

Sleepy Time as in, the Celestial Seasonings kind of Sleepy Time?

hmm I should get that too. ^^
I look forward to seeing what the teas I'll get this year :D

yup, Celestial Seasonings, but other brands use similar names. Bigelow makes one that is almost the same name but can't recall.

I haven't had Bigelow in a while, actually, although for some reason its name sounds more familiar than Celestial Seasonings, the type I usually drink.

Bigelow's Orange Spice = luff. Actually, Orange-anything = luff most of the time.

It still got to me that people would come into Tom Hortons when I worked there and ask for Orange Spice, and then nab the orange pekoe after I told them we didn't have anything orange. Customers, for some reason, kept assuming we did.

Caffiene trick: apparently caffeine is the first thing to come out of a tea bag, so if you steep your tea for half a minute or so, most of the caffiene will come out. Toss that first bit, then make your tea with the same bag. :)

I never put anything in my tea. Should I?

Caffeine has never really affected me, besides the oh-crap-I-need-to-use-the-restroom-but-it's-only-fifteen-minutes-into-my-shift kind of thing on Saturday mornings at The Tech.

Me neither really, though having many cups without water in between did not help my heart palpiations, but then, my pills weren't working terribly well either at the time.

I put milk and sugar in black teas, unless it's lemon black tea.
I put milk and sugar in select herbal teas.
I drink green and white teas straight.

I use honey when there's nothing else around or when I just darn well feel like it. My favourite thing now is German Rock Sugar from Teavana, since it actually makes the tea taste a little different from regular sugar. Instead of making the tea taste sweet, it takes away the need for sugar. Kinda funny that way.

I've become a sugar snob though. I don't use white sugar anymore. I use Taiko brand stuff, which I can only get at one grocery store chain around here, or raw if I must!

Oh. Teavana. I don't think I ever got much from there besides the samples, ahahahaaaah...

I should go there again sometime.

@kiddiss: I LOVE using tea. I'm not a huge fan of using sugar in my teas, but I will put a little bit of honey ^^

I hate Twinings tea.

My favourite package kind is Mighty Leaf, but I'm too cheap to buy it regularly. Otherwise I usually go with Stash or Twinnings, depending on what I'm getting. Whenever I go to my clinic appointments every 4-6 months or so I stop by at the Pekoe store for leaf tea. I love their mango black. The Teavana is new, but pricey. David's Tea which I'm just forming an opinion on now is across town and not where I usually go so it may be a while before I can make an educated call. ;)

Not so fond of Tetly anymore, since I discovered my leaf teas, and not a fan of Numi either. Have some other miscallenous things around the house. Can't remember all of them though. Cousin gave me something from the "Urban Tea Merchant" which I have yet to try.

I still wish we had the European lipton flavours here. -.-

I like Lipton, Bigelow, Yogi, and Celestial Seasons. ^^ I do like other teas too. Depends though ^^ I have been meaning to go and expand my tea love ^^

Never been too fond of Bigelow. Celestial seasonings I like for my herbal tea, and their "Morning Thunder" which is a mix of yerba mate and black tea. I find yerba by itself is too much and makes me feel a little ill so I mix it with stuff anyway. Celestial Seasonings was the brand I started with. :)

Only tried two yogi's teas and liked them. Not sure about the Good Earth tea I got, but that could be because it's roobios.

I got a gift certificate for a local tea store for my birthday! It's the only place that I can find my Russian Earl Grey tea! (besides the European Lipton flavour that is not available here. -,-)

Oooo I wish I could get a gift certificate to a tea place :p
I like the Good Earth tea I have. ^^ It's not too bad.
I should look into getting more leaf teas again and getting another tea ball (I lost mine in the move from the house I grew up in to the apartment my dad and I shared for a couple of years)

Have you guys ever had Tazo?

Oh yeah! I remember Tazo, Starbucks has that :D
I love the Passion tea ^^

Can't believe I forgot that one. -.-

I get their chai, and their carton chai late is actually pretty good for a carton thing, and cheaper than Starbucks. Right now I have one of their whites. I like their "Awake" tea which I knicked off my sister, but it's like Mighty Leaf. It's not quite good enough that I'll pay the extra for it given my money woes.

I should look into buying more teas ^^"

Heard of it but haven't tried it. Never thought to try it though. I tend to stick with what I know until someone stuff something into my face. Then I'll try it.

Kettle is done! *whoosh*