NEW RELEASES
Earl Gray & John Daniels (I’m Using His Christian Name)
Sassy and The Bandit are in their rooms blubbering. I am in the office steaming, and My Honey and the dog are hiding in the back yard. I don’t know how stay-at-home moms do it. I’m losing my mind. I just don’t have the temperament. The constant fighting, the whining, the mess – Dear God! It’s like the trifecta of misery over here.
I’m trying to get some writing done, but everytime I open the current chapter I’m working on, my brain glazes over.
I’m drinking a cup of tea. I asked for a tea pot from my mother and she put together a beautiful basket with a pretty cup, a gorgeous pot and a sample of several types of tea she thought I might like. I’m trying to get off the soda. I’m a junky and I know how bad it is for me. Water is out of the question. BLECK! So now I’m trying tea: iced tea, hot tea, flavored tea, sun tea, chai tea, whatever. I’m not a brewed beverage kind of girl. I don’t like coffee at all and I’m trying to make myself like tea. It’s been slow going.
Based on how well today is proceeding, perhaps the secret is tea with whiskey in it.
Actually his name was Jack — Jack Daniel. I know because your grandfather and I visited his distillery.
That’s a shame – and I’ve known him so long. To think that he’s been lying to me all these years.
It is a little-known fact that bergamot (found in Earl Grey) gives you a sense of well-being, so drink up! I, too, have been trying to give up soda, so when I do buy it, I always put it in the refridgerator in the garage. Every time I get a hankerin’ for one, I must go out to the garage to get it. Not wanting to miss a single second of “Meerkat Manor,” I generally just make some tea (Earl Grey, so I don’t become so emotional about Mozart dying alone in the Kalahari)instead of trekking out to the garage.
If you put milk in your tea, try a little Bailey’s instead. I never have put milk in my tea, but I do love that Bailey’s!