Matcha

There will be many high quality sells tonight
Originally uploaded by RedTea

In front of me is the Shaman Drum Bookshop. I picked up an application to work there once. Someone just walked past the window with a major camera. Old fashioned (non-digital) with a huge zoom lens. I wonder what he needs a zoom lens for in Ann Arbor. You are disappointed that this is an everyday post and not a video, aren’t you. My brain. My poor brain still feels funny. Emotions clear. Thoughts clear. Everything seems peaceful. The only thing that interrupts this inter calm is this feeling. When I am busy doing things it doesn’t matter. I forget about it. I’ve spent so much money the last few days. I paid the Comcast and DTE Energy Bill. Ouch. I’m not going to think about it. If I had stayed in the Dorms I wonder what my life would be like now.

I cannot seem to focus. Just talked to my Mom on AIM. I can see the light beginning to decrease. It is 15 min until seven. It is 15 min to seven. It is after eight. The light is gone. I am in my room typing by the light of an Ikea lamp. I think I will check craigslist. The Internet is slow at my apartment. Who would have thought that I would grow up to have an apple laptop, Internet in my home, an apartment with roommates, and Matcha Green tea? I plan on getting Oregon Chai to go with it. That way I will never need to go to a coffee shop. I will have one at home. We have an Espresso Machine, but I forget what temperature to heat the milk to, and how much milk to use.

You see I used to get this craving to go to Starbucks and get a Green Tea Frappuccino, but those days are over because I discovered that the secret mixture they use isn’t so secret. Matcha it’s called, and Tazo has a tasty mix of it, but I am looking into trying some of the high quality stuff without the other ‘special’ ingredients Tazo has added. So I went to eBay and looked it up, and then I did the ultimate thing I do to keep myself from buying anything. I go to Amazon, find the most expensive over the top version of it, and put it in my wishlist. So now I have 5lb of Organic Grade 1 Matcha on the top of my Tea Dreams wishlist.

I am not so sure that this is the most over the top version of it. In fact I know that aged ‘vintage’ teas cost a lot as well. I never knew how expensive teas could be before I looked them up on Amazon over this summer. I guess my sister briefly mentioned it in her old Tea Blog, but it didn’t register. There are so many expensive things out there. For someone who shops at Thrift stores and has only brought about one thing in the mall all year (not counting Starbucks) I look at all these things with wide eyes. It helps me put into perspective how far I am from just wasting money when I buy a coffee drink, or food downtown. This is something that I am trying to stop doing.

I always tell myself that at least I am not wasting money on clothes, drugs, or alcohol. These are good things. In theory these choices should keep me drinking warm coffee, and cool Matcha. Who knows, someday maybe I will be able to get the expensive Matcha.

You’re right. It is silly to start with five pounds of something you don’t even know if you like. I will search for a smaller first try. There I found it one oz. Maybe I can talk someone into splitting the price with me. Three cups each. Adventure!

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Hello again

Fig inside for the winter
Originally uploaded by RedTea

Wow, so much has happened since I last posted. I went to the Bonsai Auction and won some beautiful Bonsai at wonderful prices. Some more seeds come in. A few auctions for seeds ended. Auctions that I won. Things are beginning to get moving. I can feel it. I’ve been cooking a lot, and I’ve eaten out a lot. I missed going to mass with my sister. I missed the trip that the whole senior class went on. I don’t care. I applied for a grant today (now yesterday). That is why my post is so short. I normally would have been getting my fingers moving a lot quicker by now. I am a slow typist. I like to take my time and think things through. I am generally slower at a lot of things then most people. Not that I am stupid. I think my system just is a few beats back from everyone else so time moves differently for me. I need to get my motivation going. I think that getting grants will get me going. I will have something to work for. I will have something to prove again. I don’t care to prove things to the art school anymore. I have done that for three years now.

I have found my footing. I have found something I can do. I am no longer lost fumbling along in this IP project. I am creating. What am I saying? I have no idea what I am doing. I think I need more Mountain Dew to clear my head, Mountain Dew and a lunch. I have 30 min more. Do you think I can make it? I am so very, very… I don’t even know what. My creativity has been flashed out of me. All I want is to go to Espresso Royal and forget about my worries. I could write a couple scripts for narratives and then send them out. Send them out to myself.

I am afraid that my post today is going to have to be very dull. I think I will check craigslist. Check and done. It is the next day now. I am waiting for English class to start. I have written a paper to be critiqued and I hope everyone enjoys reading it. After it is critiqued and I have polished it up I will post it for all to read. Are you excited? You get to read something I actually completed writing. Though it is more of a beginning then an end. I will speak no more of it for now.

I spent a lot of money at Espresso Royale today. I didn’t get to seat down and enjoy my Vanilla Bean Polar Cap though. I just thought of something I need to do. Note to self: Remember to send rough draft to Prof after picking it up and rewriting parts of it. I also plan on working on clay tonight, but that might need to wait until tomorrow. For the first time in a long time I stopped to look at myself typing. My hands move so strangely like they know what they are doing. I was taught to never look at the keyboard only the screen, but I am missing out on so much. I cannot wait to send off the copy of my paper to my Professor. I cannot wait. I am sending my paper out now. There it is sent. Now I will read. No I don’t feel like reading. I should have stick with the potter’s wheel. I got my pants all dirty.

I slept through my alarm this morning for a long time. It just didn’t register in my brain that there was music. I will have to switch to the buzzer tomorrow. I have no choice. My roommate is going to hate me, but I have to wake up.

A little something I cooked up today