I have two cups!

My first one is one I picked up at a yard sale when I first lived independently. Its white and orange with a black cat face on both sides. In the side it says "The Black Cat."

My other one is a gift from my grandma. Its got Marilyn Monroe on both sides.

I love my red coffee mug, even though I reserve it for extreme occasions. The glaze is perfectly smooth, and that is soothing. The grip fits my hand exactly, facilitating caffeine ingestion. And the bright red warns my loved ones to tread lightly at the same time it tells me, “Pull it together, woman!” Treydog’s Caffeine Alert System Red Coffee Cup Warning is not an exaggeration!!

My favorite mug for tea is quite a piece of kitsch. It has a photo of the Hope Diamond on it. We got it on a family trip to Washington DC that was so fun, even seeing that mug every day has not diminished the memory. Also I teased Mr. Grits relentlessly when he was buying it, thinking he intended to take it to work. So of course he had to give it to me as a “gift”!

Got back from my riding lesson a few minutes ago. My horse was a lot better behaved this time around, and he did an excellent job.

Good times.

My favorite coffee cup is something along the lines of a giant thermos with a straw sticking up out of it.

And here I thought you just drank it out of a lake!

And it was all gone in two days.

Mine has "Si vis pacem" on one side, and "para bellum" on the other.

mALX your "mug" sounds cozy. I like drinking things that can stain my teeth out of a straw, but coffee is one I don't--only because my mug doesn't come with a straw attached to it! If it did, or if I had straws that I was certain were able to tolerate that much heat, I would glady sip my coffee through a straw.



Ooh, classy! Latin FTW!

And while we're on the topic of coffee, my husband made these really awesome coffee shakes last night, with ice cream in them. Omg, it was mocha heaven!

It is like the MOAB, except the last letter, make it the MOACC's, lol. It is obscenely huge.

This post has been edited by mALX: May 29 2011, 08:40 PM

Right now, my coffee usually comes in the form of a recycled paper cup with a Siren logo on it.

Shame....

In keeping with my image (cough, cough)- I am an effete tea-sipper. Well- tea-guzzler more precisely. And in the fine Southern tradition, it must be sugared and lemoned and COLD. A sprig of mint does not go amiss either, when I can find the time to add one.

On a different subject, I have just returned from my "birthday" celebration at a local eating establishment. My wonderful step-daughter and her husband got me- FOUR new banana-paper notebooks. That is perfect, as I just hit the halfway point in the last of the original notebooks I had purchased. Because I am such a dinosaur and still prefer to literally write (well- print) my stories on paper, these are an excellent gift.

But the really BIG item is Volume 1 of the Autobiography of Mark Twain (yes, the one he stipulated not to be published until 100 years after his death). Woo-Hoo!

Hmm mugs. I have more than a few, each with it's purpose and generally some sort of history to it.

My coffee one was made specially and holds the volume of my moka pot or turkish pot nicely, or alternativly leaves enough coffee from the filter machine to fill a litre flask. Nice thick brown glaze on it hides the stains perfectly too.

My soup one was a chistmas present, also made speically. Perfect volume to make up a soup sachet and thick so it keeps it hot (if preheated). I also use that one for cider sometimes.

For tea I have a giant one. It's still not big enough of course, if it hasn't got a ladder to get in it's not enough tea, but it's a start. And two bags (yorkshire blend) for five minutes with milk in after they're removed for me please.

Glad you enjoyed your birthday Treydog. It's always nice to recieve the perfect gift. How does banana paper differ from normal paper - does it smell at all? And writing all that longhand... that's some effort.

Cold? Mint?



Boiling water, tea bag in for a few mins, then a splash of milk.



I tend to use Yorkshire Gold Appropriate I guess, having spent my entire life in Yorkshire. 2 bags would be a bit strong for me though

Aah, tea. Could talk about it for hours...

T'is the difference between the English and the American.

We could get into a nice debate over who drives on the wrong side of the road, as well.

Maybe it's because I'm a veterinarian, but for some reason, when both of you spoke of yorkshire blend, I had this mental image.

No odor that I can detect. It is made from the waste fibers from the leaves after harvesting- plus some recycled waste paper. I like the "tooth"it has- a slightly rough texture that takes the ink quite well. Also the non-glare color. The company is in Costa Rica and is called Ecopapers. I will not add a link because I get annoyed by advertising spammers hitting the forum... so I do not want to be one.

The act of printing by hand is one surefire way for me to get past writer's block or any other sort of "stuck place." I do compose at the keyboard as well, but really like to have the manuscript pages. That is especially true when I am writing parts that "have not happened yet" such as the ending.

And a hot cup of Earl Grey or Red Zinger can be a treat on a winter morning- or when I am suffering from a cold.

Oh, don't get me started on tea! I loooove tea, and I also have a special cup for my tea, when I don't use one of our regular ones. (I do sometimes use a different coffee cup, too, but only if I didn't get the dishes done before going to bed and I'm too lazy to wash it in the morning....) Anywho, my tea cup is also very big, and it's white with a band of dancing cats around the top (or running, idk...I prefer to imagine in my head that they are dancing and singing....lalalalalala.....lol).

My favorite tea is definitely earl grey with a drop of lemon, and I like herbal teas a lot. Pretty much any kind of tea--ooh, and chai! Oh, and I'm not fond of cold tea--I prefer mine hot 99% of the time...

Lol, sorry if I seem kind of crazier than normal ....I'm just super giddy for some reason... I'm in an unusually good mood tonight, and it feels great, but at the same time it's almost frightening! The Duchess of Dementia is acting... *cue doomed music*... like a Maniac!!!!!!!

(and NO, I promise you I am NOT on drugs. I am just having a super good day with my family! )

This post has been edited by Lady Syl: May 30 2011, 03:19 AM

Me thinks Thauron may have been spiking our dear Duchess's tea with Skooma today.

*yelling off-screen* Hey! get away from my chocolates!

I just noticed that I called a coffee mug’s handle its “grip.” D’oh!! Time for sleep.

Someone I know puts some milk, two teabags and boiling water in a flask at breakfast and drinks the result for lunch. That is tea, it also stinks.


There certainly is a time and a place for earl grey with lemon (never milk though).

If we're really going to go into tea I'll throw a controversial one out there. Lapsang souchong anyone? A smoked tea from china, now generally I can't be bothered with chinese teas but that one is rather tasty and a little unusual, though I must say I tend to use an outrageous amount of it to get the flavour strength I like.

The tea bags left in? You mean...leaving it brewing for about 4 hours?!?

Ye gads, that would be like paint stripper!