So I got, like, a box of tea a few weeks ago. Not just a box of tea, but a box of boxes of tea. I don't drink a lot of tea, so I figured, hey, I'm set for life. Like six boxes of tea. Most of these teas aren't even on the market for regular people. It's just people like me, who don't drink a lot of tea, that these crazy tea companies send giant free boxes of tea to. I don't know how it happened, but I'm not complaining. I'm not complaining about that.
So, there's like a bunch of different types of tea boxes in the larger box, and fuckit, I threw out the larger box a few weeks ago, so forget it. FORGET THE BIG BOX OF TEA. So there's a bunch of different types of tea, and they're in boxes, and they're sitting in my kitchen cupboards, and tonight, I was thinking, hell, let's have some tea, teaboy!
But first I had to do the dishes, which was a blast, because I just got new dishwashing gloves. Hypoallergenic, for people who are allergic to washing dishes I guess. I don't know.
So I finished the dishes and I put the kettle on. Then I had to fold my laundry, because I did laundry earlier tonight (oh yeah, you're thinking, this guy knows how to PARTAY). And because I'm pretty much the best clothes folder in the whole history of clothes, I finished just seconds before the teakettle whistled. I let it whistle anyway.
So I picked out a type of tea (and don't even look for this stuff in the stores, because, like, this is fruggin' spaceage NOT READY FOR MASS CONSUMPTION beta-testing Jamie Sommers style tea), Strawberry Surprise, and then I started thinking about
Louis CK and how I hadn't listened to any of it yet, so I got on the computer and downloaded it and I was listening to it. He's only got five podcasts so far, and most of them are only about two minutes long, but they're funny like nobody's business (and Louis CK is a friend of mine--not really a FRIEND FRIEND, but he's on Myspace, and I'm on Myspace, and I was like, 'hey you wanna be my friend?' and he didn't say no) and I was just listening to them over and over, and laughing, especially at the one about Single People Who Complain. And then I remembered, OH CRAP, the tea!
The tea had been brewing for about 20 minutes or something, and I don't know how long you're supposed to brew this stuff for, but I think 20 minutes is about 4 times too long. SO, needless to say, right now I am drinking very strong, but lukewarm, tea. I think that's the Surprise.
So the moral is, if you're gonna make tea, you gotta concentrate.