So my feet are cold, which means that I should probably get up and find my slippers...but it's much too enticing to sit here on the couch with my laptop (gawd I love wireless) and window shop at Target.com...
...Okay, put the slippers on, which means I might start to have feeling again in a few minutes. I even managed to pour a cup of Chocolate Caramel Enchantment Chai with a splash of milk (love Celestial Seasonings) to keep me warm and smiley. I've been really into teas lately. Not like Bob is, who's all about his $1000/lb. bags of oolong. I'm just happy to have a cup of sweet warmth that happens to have 0 WW points at $2 a box (for 20 bags). Honey Vanilla White Tea, Acai Berry Green Tea...yummy. I have about 4-5 glasses a day. It really is a good way to appease the sweet tooth!!
I love warm liquids this time of year. Last weekend Bob and I were purusing a few bookstores - your usual Borders and Barnes & Noble, both complete with full-service coffee counters. Upon entering, I headed straight to the counter in each store, easily choosing whatever special fall flavor latte they had on special. At Borders it was Creme Brulee; at B&N (i.e. Starbucks) it was Pumpkin Spice or something of the sort. Just the flavors I was looking for... Bob and I roamed our seperate ways throughout the stores, and I was perfectly contect with latte in hand looking at cook books, calendars, wedding etiqutte guides. (I happened to see one for gay and lesbian marriages, but not multi-racial couples...what gives?!? Oh, and it was just boredom, not cuz I need to start planning or anything. Seriously.) Incincently, Bob yelled at me on our way home - he just did not understand why I had to have not one, but TWO lattes, when I probably should have saved the $$ for other purchases...like bread. I explained to him that it wasn't about the caffiene, it wasn't about the cost, it was simply that there is something so relaxing about a warm latte, walking around bookstores with the beau (or not), and feeling like all is good. Cold fall night outside, warm bookworms inside. It was just a little treat (or two) to myself, and it was all I needed to make the night complete. I know, I know...waxing a little too poetic, here...but I have fond memories of cofffee shops and friends and reading books...(but let's not dwell on the many endless nights inhaling triple lattes to stay awake...) Bookstores, a latte, my Bob, a fall evening...a perfect night....
Okay, back to my Chocolate Caramel Enchantment and Target.com...
5 comments:
you're cute, sis, and im so happy for you that you're feeling so good about yourself! what the heck, i havent talked to you in at least a week, better fix that! love sis!
I can totally see where you're coming from. If I hadn't actually worked in a book store I'd be far more sentimental about them than I am now. The fall flavors are always the best ones of the year. When I worked the cafe I used to make little sample-sized hot egg nogs with whipped cream. Oh... the lovely. Not to mention that those lattes are totally a substitute for food. I'd drink coffee like a crazy person on shift and didn't really feel the need to eat much of anything. So bread shmead. ;-j Ever since the arrival of cold weather we've been consuming hto liquids like whoa. I'm a bit of a soup and baking maniac. It's a good season.
Dan and I haven't been book shopping together in a while, though I've gone on my own to raid the used book store attached to the local library. It's a really wonderful feeling finding 5 books that you want to read and only having to pay a dollar for them. If you haven't done so already, I highly recommend reading The Time Traveller's Wife. It was *sigh* wonderful.
How old are the kids you're teaching? I totally loved the music classes when I was young. One of the teachers I remember best was Mrs. Moyer, the woman who rolled her little cart and record player into the room, handed out song books, taught us about cannon beats and rounds and music history. Love love loved it. ah, the good old days. I'm seriously in school deprivation mode. I will have to do something about it. *nods*
ttyl :D
Totally agreed. Tea is the best. I kicked the coffee habit earlier this year and now have discovered the Joy and Wonder of tea. (And I don't think Mr. Thousand Dollar Oolong has any room to complain about two chai lattes. ;))
Haha...he dosen't really spend thousands of dollars on tea...but he does have a little bog of a rather expensive green tea that his parents had. I think it was something they got when they were still living in Korea. Perhaps he'll remind me after reading this...
To answer your question, Marti, I teach undergrads mostly. It's a two-semester music history course for music majors. They're wonderfully smart, and I have had a good many of them for their freshman-year survey of history as well. I really like working wtih majors (I've taught a lot of gen-ed courses for non-majors in the past), since you can go so much more in depth with them. If you get the right bunch of non-majors, though, they are so eager to learn something new!
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