ratti pillo loves you always.

rip them out of me!!!

I am not feeling too well today. Just the typical 'yucky' that comes with lady troubles. But i've been drinking a lot of tea, so I guess that helps. I will do some retail therapy, later, and see the queen of hugs, Beth and feel loads better, I'm sure of it.

So, I am at the new-ish job. I have pretty much gotten my bearings, and next week my boss will out of town so I will be on my own for the most time. It shouldn't be so bad; he had to go on a business trip Wednesday, so it was my first time 'home alone'. Anyhoo, I will get to play my music loud (I already kind of do) and talk to myself about stupid things (yeah...)

I am getting anxious for Spring...for when there is warmer weather, and more fun things to do. April is pretty busy: this weekend, I am going to VA with Judi to visit Stephanie, there is a family party the weekend after that, Radigals conference, a trip back to Providence, Jen's wedding shower, and my berfday! The dirty two dozen....

I am on live support right now, and someone is trying to bargain for free shipping. What a jerk. This is also the same person who thought you could put a plastic implement on a stovetop (uh, no).

I guess since I'm working at a tea company, I should post some of my favorites teas as of late:

Jasmine Pearls- ours bloom in the infuser, and omg I LOVE JASMINE. they remind me of the native Filipino flower, the Sampugita. So fragrant, it's like sipping flowers.

The Earl Grey Aristocrat- i used to not like Earl Grey, but this has some lavender in it, and you can smell and bergamot- another favorite scent of mine. It's my "Wake-the-eff-up!" morning tea.

that's all I've been drinking as of late. I really ought to catalog all the tea I drink with my observations so I can learn more about how to really taste tea. It's fun, but I pee a lot now. It's ridiculous. I will get up like ten times an hour.

I really hate live support. I wish we didn't have it. I can't really leave to do my other work, bc I have to hang out and wait for someone to go on it and ask me some dumb question. Oouf. I do enjoy it when I actually have a conversation with someone on it though, and I learn something about tea. I had a charming conversation with an old man who lived somewhere west of the Mississippi R. and grew fields of this certain lavender tea. Sounded very relaxing.

My first project/proposal for the company newsletter is to be a tea room critic- how fun! I want to take my mom to tea at this laura-ashley-esque place in Yardley, Tea with an Accent, and the lady has a British accent. My old co-worker recommended it to me. i'm planning to have that as my first review. There are loads in the city alone; all different kinds- I hope to cover a range of different types of places, with different types of people in relation to me- mom, relatives, all my different groups of friends, boyfriend. I hope to be able to have a certain 'experience' with each place- like Tea with Mom at Place with Frilly Frilly Things, and compare the food, type of tea, environment, and any other activities we do before or after the tea visit. I think it'll be fun, and compelling. I'll try to make it more interesting than the standard review you would see on the website. We'll see. It'll give me an excuse to take pictures and stuff. Or maybe, I can go incogneito, Ruth Reichl-like, and not tell anyone I'm a critic. But I don't think anyone would really care.

I am exhausted. And I hate the 4:45-5:00pm rush- people see that live support is going to shut down at 5pm, so they all try to get on it ten to 5, and ask me dumb questions they could just email me about. OOUF.

I was also up late last night looking up airfare for my vacay this summer- Las Vegas with Mike, Judi, and Carin for three days, where my cousin, Ferds might come meet up with me, and then it's to Sucker-Free aka San Francisco to meet up with Nisha for another four days. The only thing that sucks is that I have to find 3 separate flights, but it's only a little bit more expensive than getting one round trip, which I don't mind. I'm really excited! It's the first time I'm getting to go out to see other cities on the West Coast besides Seattle. I think it's going to be a lot of fun.

Another thing about this job, is that I think people threw disregard any sort of proper grammar, English, simple sentence phrasing when they are talking to me. And also email, which I think is more embaressing that hand- writing a badly written letter. Seriously, these people are like :

HEY Plese helpme with youre teapot itsbroke n and fix (Hi, how are you? I'm great. do you think you could help me with this teapot I purchase? It is broken, and I would like a replacement. I'd be happy to pay for shipping. No, thank YOU!)

Excuse me do you have orginnicly growned tea? (Excuse me, do you have organically grown tea?)

iwannaa not be fat, what tea does that (??? oh boy)

anyhoo, it's another form of retail, but with normal hours, no being on my feet all day, and if you mouth off of me via typed word, DELETE. Love IT.