Dear So and So

[tangentgirl]

Crankin - sounds more like not letting them off the hook than enabling to me. Enabling would mean there were no consequences for not showing up.

Lime - that sucks. Can you tell your doc at the outset that you need a less expensive option? It's not fun to say "i don't have much extra $$ today," but sometimes they will work with you, find sample drugs or something over the counter for that precautionary thing.

Owlie - Hope things get better.

Tulip - wtg!

[bmccasland]

Dear Skinny Feline that lives here,
I'm sorry that I had to force feed you this evening. It wasn't much fun for you. But would you please eat? Why do you like the canned food at 5pm, then not want to eat it at 7pm? Your skinny little body needs the food, if you don't eat, then I'll make you. Oh, and if you were consistant about flavors that you like then maybe we wouldn't have this trouble.

1/26 - I should add that said cat is 17 and has hyperthyroid disease. She currently weighs 4.5 pounds, so is literally skin and bones (she used to weigh in at 8.5 pounds in her younger normally functioning thyroid days). It's a Catch-22, she doesn't feel good because she needs to eat, almost constantly, but the hyperthyroid also messes with her kidneys, so doesn't feel like eating, and is a tad nauseated. I think her sense of smell is also messed up, as well as her eyesight. What can I say, she's an old lady cat.

[Biciclista]

Beth, I can speak for your cat. when they get to that point in life, they are somewhat nauseated from time to time in increasing proportions. So they definitely aren't feeling hungry like they used to. When our cat got like that we bought him all sorts of things and sometimes he'd like some of them. Like clams and shrimp - sometimes he'd act like it was a feast, other times, revolting. good luck with that little kitty.

[Owlie]

Dear certain black tea--
What gives? I never had to put milk in you before. What did I do wrong? Granted, I haven't brewed you for a few months, but still! I guess we're going back to exactly two teaspoons of leaf and three minutes of brewing time and figuring it out from there.

Dear two other black teas--
Why are you both nearly gone? Your vendor has closed, sadly, and I have no idea how to replace you.

[OakLeaf]

http://www.rishi-tea.com/

On the expensive side, but totally worth it. Rishi's plain old sencha is nearly as good as Teavana's gyokuro.

[Owlie]

Rishi is pretty good--I have a couple of grocery store tins of their tea and it's still good. They don't have what I was looking for, though. (There are one or two other things, though...)

[Blueberry]

Dear certain black tea--
What gives? I never had to put milk in you before. What did I do wrong? Granted, I haven't brewed you for a few months, but still! I guess we're going back to exactly two teaspoons of leaf and three minutes of brewing time and figuring it out from there.

Dear two other black teas--
Why are you both nearly gone? Your vendor has closed, sadly, and I have no idea how to replace you.

PM me if you want. I might have some ideas

[tulip]

Carytown Teas. They ship (but lucky for me I can ride my bike there)

[Owlie]

Blueberry, PM sent.

Thanks for the link, Tulip! They for sure have one of the teas I was looking for (or a slightly nicer version), and they have the other, I'm just not sure about the flavor profile. The one in my stash has a nice, cocoa-y flavor to it, and not all grades of that particular tea type have that flavor. Maybe I'll send them an e-mail.

[tulip]

Carytown Teas. They ship (but lucky for me I can ride my bike there)

Owlie, I sent you a PM on the tea thing.

[channlluv]

I'm not the tea expert you are, but I've ordered from these folks. They've got some really cool teas -- one of them is a tea that, as it brews, unfolds into a flower shape. Pretty cool.

http://www.holymtn.com/WhatsNew.htm

[Catrin]

I'm not the tea expert you are, but I've ordered from these folks. They've got some really cool teas -- one of them is a tea that, as it brews, unfolds into a flower shape. Pretty cool.

http://www.holymtn.com/WhatsNew.htm

www.specialteas.com also have nice teas. Well, apparently they are now part of something called Tevana, but hopefully that will be ok. If you like "blooming teas" they have more here I love tea myself and am very picky...too picky I am sure

[Owlie]

www.specialteas.com also have nice teas. Well, apparently they are now part of something called Tevana, but hopefully that will be ok. If you like "blooming teas" they have more here I love tea myself and am very picky...too picky I am sure

I actually ordered quite a bit from SpecialTeas'--the two I'm running out of were ST's. DBF's got some of Teavana's equivalent of one, and it's not bad, but isn't quite as good. They don't have the other one. Teavana has some good (if quite expensive) stuff, but a lot of their offerings are just weird froo-froo blends. Some of them are actually good, but a lot of them are just odd...and expensive. (I'm also a little bitter because they discontinued one of my favorite teas. I'll get over it.)

Tangentgirl--Thanks. I think the drugs are finally kicking in (naproxen is my new best friend)!