Some background: in recent years I have been a Diet Coke addict. We're talking 4-6 cans of Diet Coke a day. For a variety of reasons, I didn't want to sustain this habit. It's bad for me, it's expensive, and it's bad for the environment. I decided back in November to quit Diet Coke cold turkey and start drinking tea. As long as I drink caffeinated tea, for the most part I'm able to do this. Every once in awhile since then I've had to indulge long and hard in my Diet Coke habits and then I'm able to drink tea for days.

My friend Jory has been a supporter of loose tea for a couple years now, and on my most recent trip he turned me. Then, for my birthday, he gifted me some tea from Adagio. Oh my. I'm in tea heaven.

I had purchased genmai cha a week back, and then his shipment arrived. I now have my tin of genmai cha, two tins of cha cha (oops, the shipping document states one), a jasmine sample, an apricot green sample, a tin of vanilla, and a valentines sample.

I drink. A lot. Of anything. Diet coke, beer, liquor, water. I can drink gallons. I'm not going to tell you how much tea I actually drink in a day, at this point, because I'd find it extremely humiliating.

But I will tell you that I feel like I'm floating away. On tea.

Edit: Here's an easier way to get your $5 gift certificate.

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