Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Tea!

Good news for me; bad news for my stomach lining? We've finally got a working microwave in the gallery where I work, which means I don't have to run across the street to the annex when it's freezing cold to heat water for my tea, which is only lukewarm anyway by the time I get it back to my "desk" (read "table"). I know this doesn't sound particularly significant if you are not a tea-drinker, but if you are, you will realize that it's almost a vital element of the day...especially if your blood circulation is as poor as mine. Sometimes a mug of hot tea is the only thing that will warm my hands up, and uncurl my frigid fingers long enough to be able to type/write/whatever. Or warm up my brain.

So I'm celebrating by drinking more hot, strong, black tea than is really good for perhaps my stomach (I'm told the acidity is bad for you. Meh.) but is actually quite good for my mind and my soul. This one's for co-workers who bring in old, outdated microwaves to work when they replace them at home!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Switch to green tea! It's actually quite healthy! As far as I know, it captures radicals and radicals are really bad for our body. They react with our cell membranes and change their permeability. Radicals develop when we have stress.
So it's never wrong to have a cup of green tea, is it?

Much love from your,
Jackie

Aethelflaed said...

I've recently discovered peppermint tea, which I think is regular green tea flavored with mint. It's lovely stuff.