Planet Kelly and the Tea Factor: Guilty!

There is one thing that I know for a fact I can blame on my mother.   At least one thing that I can think of right now; give me an hour, a cocktail, and a tape recorder and who knows what will come out...real or imagined.

Guilt.  Oh guilt, guilt, guilt!  This is big with my Mims, as I fondly call her.  I was taught to be a good hostess, and to put other's needs ahead of my own whenever appropriate, particularly when that person is a guest.   But the thing is, you see, sometimes I forget to offer people tea when I make it for myself.  There I said it.  This does not sit well with the Mim.

Honestly, I think it is because it was made to be such a big deal that the stress of it was too much for my brain to handle.  So my brain was all like, “Hell no, girl, don’t even worry yo’self, we don’t need no stress up in here!  I’m taking you on a stress vacay bitch.”  Obviously, I couldn’t argue.  Hello!  This is my brain we’re talking about, it controls like everything on Planet Kelly.

Also, it must be said, I drink a ton of tea.  The “tea act” as I just decided to call it is not so much a special event for me.   It is life-blood.  The act just must BE, regardless of others, I must drink it.  It is only special in that without it I am not myself.  Who has time to stop their compulsion and ask others if they’d like to partake? 

Like, ya know?

I drink a lot of tea everyday, I loves it!  A slow day is about 3 cups.  When I was at UCSB I discovered the best invention of all time, the electric kettle, and my tea habit settled in at 12 cups of green tea per day. And we’re not talking “about 12” either.  I had 12 EVERYDAY on top of the one or two cups of Earl Grey or English Breakfast I’d have in the dining commons with Aimee in the morning.  I fully do not understand how I managed 12, because if I have one cup now on an empty stomach I get nauseous and start dry heaving.  I’m so pretty!  I think it is a vitamin K overload or something.

Now, come on peeps, does this make me deserving of guilt?  Obviously tea and I are really special friends and I can’t always make room in that relationship for others.  Or at least the rulers of Planet Kelly aren’t too keen on the idea at present.

And so I blame this guilt on my mother.  She’s a strong lady, she can handle it.  Now for some tea.