Urk, sorry the project from hell continues...but thanks for posting and keeping your loyal fans happy!!!!

Oh, and also? Totally love tea now too...not just cause of Drew, but ya know, I had to tell you how alike we are...heh.

Looking forward this weekend to knitting, Tivo'd shows, Six Feet Under...and ice cream drumsticks.

Makes life worth living.

You DO need a vacation. Please tell us you have the time booked after "BIG PROJECT" is up and running. I'd say come to Canada for a respite from the horror, but yesterday it was 41C (that's 106F, for you 'mericans) with the humidity. So maybe not so much.

Thank God you're back, Laurie. Shaking? Rocking back and forth? Excessive refreshing? Yes, I did them all, anxiously awaing a new post from you. Tell work to back the fuck off, man. People need new blog content!

Tonight sounds fun and eclectic! Hurrah! Except for the underage part. Wine, you know, is necessary.

Oh how I wish I could join in on the upcoming wine binge. Have some for me! (still living in dry county and am OUT)

Try to get some rest this weekend!

MX

Well, Laurie, have a great weekend! The wine and the comatose thing can wait until Saturday! YAY!!! and entertaining is fun!

And it was smart, the caffeine thing. Just so as you know green tea also has caffeine in it, so I hope you bought the decaf kind.

Green tea is AMAZING. You can find a good, tasty blend if you look. I personally recommend Tazo and Good Earth STAY AWAY from Celestial Seasonings and Bigelow. Buy a tea that has lemongrass, mint or other herbal flavorings and you'll enjoy it more. I have like 15472543 kinds of green tea. Maybe I'll send you a sample pack!

sounds like quite the posse. that definately beats mine, which consists of me, my Boy, our twitchy dog and the ants. because they are back. again. i do not care if magic chalk is illegal. i have another month and one half on this lease, so i NEED it. BADLY.

*whimper* please help. or have a peechie and well deserved weekend. your choice. :)

My vote is for a little snuggle time on the couch with the icecream before the guests arrive. I mean, c'mon...this is icecream. And guests are good distraction. Unless of course they are bad guests..and then .. well.. it's amazing what a little wine will do to a person eh?

Have a great weekend!

My mother and middle sister always drank coffee and my younger sister does both coffee and tea. Tea for me. Never could acquire a tolerance for the nastiness that coffee is. Raspberry Green Tea and Blackberry Tea are a couple of favorites, but I haven't found that many herbal teas that I con't like. As Dulcinea said, Tazo is a good one to get, although I won't say to avoid the others. I'm not a tea snob lol. Kudos to Drew on converting you.

Snapple Diet Lime Green Ice Tea. Does not taste like any of those things you said!

Green tea always tastes like it's missing something. Give me the beverage of Captain Picard! Earl Grey, hot! (with milk and splenda)

Wow! You guys sound like grownups! And here's me ... at age errr 30+ ... just now getting into The Coffee. If'n The Coffee has so much extras in it you can't taste the coffee, that is. Ya know, like a nice mocha frappaccino. Ohh ... the mocha. Mmmm.

You have lesbians coming over? That can only mean good things.

Oh Laurie - Taral mentioned the booksigning for The Yarn Harlot in her comment yesterday. Here's a link to TYH's blog with her description of the Portland booksigning. Look at all the knitters and their projects! And T and I would be the two dorks without the knitting and ... we've now discovered .. without the knitting talent. Cuz all these ladies ... they be Knit-ters!! H-o-l-y crap!

Oh, and plus her link has some pics of some awesome finished projects and their how-to's.

http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/

TEA!! oh yes! Earl Greyer is the best!! MMM MMM MMM! (picture Meg Ryan in famous HARRY MET SALLY SCENE!!!)

i feel you on the work thing. i've been at it non-stop for, oh, forever now. and it sucks. a lot. but friday sooooooo good.

also, i am a die hard coffee drinker. wrinkles be damned, i must have my morning hazelnut latte! but, i do like tea on occasion. i second dulcinea on the good earth brand. i can actually tolerate it because it does not taste like warm weed juice. also, there are some tasty varieties at http://republicoftea.com/ (also available at cost plus and other stores, but you know, online shopping is my friend).

Ohhh the difficult coffee-non coffee transation! I feel your pain but haveing worked over a year total of my life in coffee shops let me tell you - grean tea is nice and all but if you want to be "good" and have tea let me tell you - go with Earl Grey or Prince of Wales or Oolong tea. put in your sweetness of choice and then, the best part for us coffee fans, a DOLLOP OF CREAM. yup - you can have your tea and your milky goodness tooo! Can put cream in green tea. Especially cant put tea in fuity teas - can we say curdeled milk? Eeeew - learned that one the hard way! Anyway, totally check out the black teas - it will make your coffee loving soul much happier than that i-can-see-through-this-crap grean tea. (i mean, grean tea is good, but it's just not black tea, you ken?) Anyway, it may help your transition and may stat a new craze! BUt as said by another one of your adoring fans, stay the heck away from celestial seasonsings and biglow. eeew. It's the K-mart of tea. ick.

Hope you get your XYZ thingie!
Happy WEekend!

For late night tea to help calm and perhaps sleep, try chamomile. Manzanilla in Spanish shops. It's good straight and in combinatios with other nice tasting calming herbs. Nicest thing about it... you are literally drinking flowers. Yummmmm

errr I mean "combinatioNs" with other nice tasting calming herbs...

I'm thinking I may be a little TOO calm just now..

hehehe

New pain meds.. gotta love'm

http://shopstashtea.com/ All the tea goodness any person could ever need or want. Enjoy.

Oops, pressed enter too soon. My other favorite for tea and wonderful stuff from around the world, including 70%+ cocoa chocolate is World Market (www.worldmarket.com).

I get my tea from Adagio. I simply adore cocomint green and ginseg green. Also the red riobios tea (naturally caffine free) are FANTASTIC. I have a coupon ($5) link for them on my blog. I know this sounds weirdo promotion, but I just love their tea so much I cannot help it. My husband WAS supper addicted to coffee and I was able to cut him back by 2/3 and soda drinking to almost nil via tea!

Sounds like you have the coffee jangles. It happens when regular coffee drinkers go through a period where they are simply working so hard that the coffee becomes a liability instead of a help. My entire graduate journalism class got the jangles together and we all had to quit at the same time. It wasn't pretty. Don't worry: once the workload eases, you can probably drink some again without ill effect. In the meantime, there are all kinds of lovely tea blends to try. I like tazo calm myself. It's kind to tight tummies and smells like aromatherapy.

Ok. I love coffee and I love tea. what I don't love anymore is Drew. How can he turn you against the best thing ever bestowed on this planet? This thing being the coffee bean? Heresy! The java Gods will smite him if he's not careful.

I'm tellin ya Laurie, this Saturday morning after you have slept decadently late, you get up - or better yet, have the cats do it - and make yourself a nice hot pot of warm loving coffee.

As others before me have said, skip the Celestial Seasonings and Bigelow.
I prefer Mighty Leaf, www.mightyleaf.com - but it can be a bit hard to find. I think Whole Foods carries it. Their Vanilla Bean Black Tea is really good if you like flavored teas. Of course this really doesnt help much if you're trying to cut back on caffeine, but their herbal teas are good as well.
Peets Coffee & Tea also has some good teas - but I don't suggest the Earl Grey & Lavendar - it has a bit of a medicinal taste to it.
I hope you have a vacation planned - you certainly deserve it.

perhaps I interfered with the XYZ thingy so that those evil kitties who want to take over the world and wouldn't play with me WOULD suffer. However I didn't want you to suffer. I guess I will quit trying to intercept it and let it arrive for you to work with...

ugh tea .... the devil's brew that tastes like ass. you said it! just to bring you back into the light, you watch out, i might send you coffee.

Hi- I just found your site and I've spent about 3 hours reading through the archives. You are hilarious! Keep it up!!

Well the tea thing certainly explains why everything is behind schedule (say it with me "shed-yule")...dirty hippies and their godamned "steamed grass" green tea...mutter...mutter.

Work is hard, that’s bad. Friday, coffee, ice cream, wine, small social gatherings, TiVo, tea, lesbians, all good. Jury is still out on lawyers and teenagers.

Have a loverly weekend!

You simply MUST try "Cha-Cha," a chamomile-lemon grass-peppermint blend from Adagio Teas (http://www.adagio.com). Hot, it's a soothing after-work relaxation aid. Iced, it's a brisk summer pick-me-up. Lukewarm, it's... um... something in between those two things. But still really tasty!

Okay, the best hot tea EVER is English tea. The real stuff. It has flavor a-plenty and I have a ton of it marrying into a British family and all. Lemme know if you wanna try it and I will gladly put some in the mail for you!

If I pretend to be a lesbian teenaged boy can I come over and drink tea?

"aspiring lawyer, her underage sister, one (or possibly more) lesbians, and two teenage boys"

Wow. that really sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.
hope you have a good night

and tea is the best. looooove the tea. if you buy your tea loose, you can do a dried ginger bits, mint, and green tea combo that is sooooo good, and customize it for your own tastes.

I don't know who that Drew guy is, but I've never heard that coffee causes wrinkles. I'm old enough to be all your mothers, have been drinking coffee for umpteen-mumble years and am often told, "My, you certainly don't look your age!" So there.

The only good thing I've heard about green tea is that it will rev up your metabolism -- something you will all need to think about in 20 years. It's good you're acquiring a taste for it now. I'll be trying some of your recommendations. After I have another cuppa Joe.

Try Turkey Hill iced green tea with honey and ginseng. It's sooo good and doesn't taste at all gross, like some green tea. And it's iced, which in summer, is good.

Coffee=nectar of the gods

Tea=nectar of the somewhat less wrathful gods

I gave up all my "good" addictions--have to keep the coffee...

Glad to see you back, Purl! Hope the project doesn't suck your brains out too much, because your web pals are going through withdrawal out here (like somebody took our coffee away)!

From the American of Scots heritage, here's the best tea out there:

http://www.teadog.com/_thumbnails/RT1407-Scottish-270_thumbnail.gif

Scottish Breakfast. Rich, full bodied and an excellent smooth taste. Strong as, well, can't think of a simile, but it's nice and strong. And smooth.

I get it at Whole Foods, but you can order it from teadog. Want me to send you some?

Um, that was my comment. New computer. Sorry...

"Including but not limited to: an aspiring lawyer, her underage sister, one (or possibly more) lesbians, and two teenage boys."

Damn. Wish I was there.

You've GIVEN UP COFFEE?!!!!!!! Are you INSANE woman! What's next?!!! No smoking?!! No drinking!! Honestly-I'm going to have to re-evaluate this whole blog-crush thing.....hmph!!!

(Shaking head, "And I thought she was so cool....")

(Grin-glad you're writing again and pimping out the cats!~Woo-Hoo!!)

There is a light at the end of your project from hell tunnel! Almost there :)

Be on the look out for an Adagio tea certificate in your email. Since I switched about two years ago, it has been a great source to find about any tea. Of course, in California, there is probably more selection on green/oolong/loose tea than in the boring midwest. Oh, and white tea is much less strong and has the same benefits of green. Happy brewing!

I stopped drinking coffee last 11/05 and I haven't missed it a bit.
I like to brew my green tea with a bag of red tea, it gives it a nice little boost.
Enjoy your weekend!

I used to think green tea was nasty & foul too.

When green tea tastes too...green and lawn-ish, try putting a bit of milk in it. It tones down the grassy taste. (especially for gunpowder green or pan-fried green teas)

Jasmine green tea is a great green tea. I highly recommend it if you are grossing out over the grassy taste. It's not very grassy at all. And it smells great too.

Coffee drinkers know when the FUCK Friday is. They know it isn't FUCKIN Thursday.

'Scuse me I need a hit of Espresso with a Latte chaser...anybody seen MEGA cup...get outta my way dammit