The last two days i've been trying to drink as much green tea as i can stand. It's the most ideal springtime beverage that i've thought of so far. The weather is not really hot enough for iced tea yet (though tomorrow it might be!), and coffee is so perfect in autumn and winter. Even the flavors used in coffee are really rich, cold weather foods...hazelnut, vanilla, cocoa. Hot green tea is warming but refreshing too, i think. At work we have 3 different green teas, but i pretty much always drink the sencha. I'm a little sick of it but i don't really like the other ones we have... too fruity.
I get bored sometimes but my life really is a bit like a fairy tale. At the moment, it's somewhere before or after the once-upon-a-time part i guess, where nothing really is happening. The old Grandmother. The tiny house, the tall trees. Lately there are lilacs, larkspur, and violets blooming.Today Grandma agreed to go along to the grocery store with me, as long as she could stay in the car. It was a gorgeous day; she said the sun was "horrible," so i gave her my sunglasses. It was hard not to giggle when i looked at her, with her little daisy barette and big pink heart-shaped sunglasses. She looked kind of fabulous actually.
Besides being featured in someone's etsy treasury, i guess the most interesting thing that has happened today was when one of my customers let me try some "raw" milk. She said you have to buy a cow share to get it. It tasted just like milk, but kind of really delicious.
I was thinking how odd that the moments in my life that now seem to belong to stories are not always the moments that felt straight out of a novel at the time. For example, a particularly adventurous weekend in Chicago when i was a college freshmen seems very difficult to write down without sounding ridiculous, unbelievable. I've generally never written anything inspired by any of my time overseas. But the very boring days at the coffee shop in Alaska are super easy to write about. Maybe because it was a coffee shop/car wash. That guy my own age who had already been married, divorced, and was now dating his ex-wife. The other customer (as in, 2 of 2) who always talked to me about baseball for some reason... specifically the Detroit Tigers if i remember right. And that's pretty much all there is to draw on, but it seems like plenty.
