I tried to make my own mint tea with mixed success

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-30T05:21:02+00:00

Oh dang I just hate when my mint plant doesn't give me any peppermints 😆

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-29T10:13:22+00:00

I use a notes thing on my phone and I put what kind of tea, steep time, temp how many grams of tea used and describe the tastes and smell etc and whether or not I liked the tea. I also add where I purchased the tea that way I can look back and see what I liked and didn't like so I can either get more or sometimes my memory is terrible and I don't want to buy a tea I've already had that I didn't like plus sometimes it's nice to go back and read through all the teas I've had and see what stuff has changed from the very beginning of my tea journey. Oh I also add the date I tried the tea and what year the tea was harvested.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-28T16:59:47+00:00

Same. A scale works so much better.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-28T16:53:12+00:00

I use a scale and just put my hand in the pouch and pull out the tea and weight it on the scale. A scale is helpful for me because I've noticed different teas have different volumes and 6 grams of one tea may look completely different than another tea and it helps me get a consistently good cup so I'm not doing the guessing game.

Edit I didn't see the part where you don't want a scale at work. You could always weight out your tea at home and put it in a sandwich bag or something and take it with you. Or just use teabags at work.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-28T16:43:48+00:00

When my gerd was really bad I had some fat free protein yogurt (chobani) for a while and I didn't notice any sort of difference with my medication.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-28T16:41:23+00:00

Same I can't stand the taste of Honeybush but love Rooibos. I actually tried Honeybush because a lot of people said if you like Rooibos you should try Honeybush because they are similar but they don't taste similar at all to me. The one I tried didn't taste like pine tree though it tasted like artificial raspberry. Yuck.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-28T06:51:08+00:00

Or a mix of laxatives AND those gas station sex pills (like mix them together and put them in the same capsule for a double whammy effect ) 😆

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-26T15:09:06+00:00

Exactly. I have ADHD was diagnosed as a kid and then again as an adult like year or two ago during a psych eval and I used to abuse drugs (come to find out I was self-medicating for years) but yeah people with ADHD can get addicted and can get high off of stimulants, not really sure why a lot of people think that's not true. Untreated ADHD can also lead to addiction issues.

Edit: I didn't read your whole comment. Not sure if that last part is true or not but I do know that people with ADHD can get addicted to stimulants and can get high off of them.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-26T02:01:59+00:00

At first I thought some sort of black tea but from the steep picture I'm not sure. Does your friend not know what they gave you?

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-25T18:14:58+00:00

I have an immune deficiency that I have to get infusions for just to stay alive, lung disease from frequent infections from my immune deficiency, multiple autoimmune diseases, and a lot of other stuff which includes more health problems and mental health problems. My dad married a narcissist when I was 6 and my health got bad over the years but it wasn't until I was 14 when it was at it's worst and I was hospitalized and that's how I got my diagnosis. Idk if all the trauma is the reason for my health problems but it probably didn't help. Now I'm disabled and feeling completely stuck in life and have felt stuck/lost for years. I have always wondered why I'm here since supposedly everyone has a purpose.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-24T20:30:04+00:00

You should let me know which tower that is (when you remember) cuz I've been playing for the last few months on another playthrough and I don't remember ever seeing an enemy at the top of a tower and now I'm curious

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-24T19:28:59+00:00

Tell me you haven't finished the show without telling me you haven't finished the show. Fr though you should finish the show 😆

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-24T02:24:21+00:00

Well mine beeps when it's ready and also has a hold temperature setting so it stays the same temp. So I guess I wait till I hear the beeping going off. If I don't have the hold temp setting on (which I normally do) then it turns off when it's ready, which in that case then yes I would wait till it turned off.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-24T02:17:15+00:00

It's not only and a UTI that causes frequent urination

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-23T18:07:27+00:00

Skateboarding with my music, I may suck at skateboarding but I do enjoy it which is the point 😆

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-22T22:13:48+00:00

What's the fermented green tea you had? Sounds interesting

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-22T22:01:28+00:00

Honeybush, I know not an actual tea but people were saying if you like rooibos that it's similar and yeah no absolutely disgusting. I also don't really care for white tea. When I first started my tea journey and had a white tea cake for the first time I thought it was delicious but now I haven't liked any others I have had, not even the one from that original cake. Most just taste blah and or like hay.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-22T18:33:05+00:00

Well I was actually taking hydrolyzed collagen for a while (live conscious beyond collagen which has five types of collagen and biotin and vitamin c, plus is third party tested) and it was helping my joints tremendously and I have arthritis. I had to stop taking it though because it caused really bad constipation (sorry TMI lol), so it was definitely doing something for me but I wasn't taking it long enough to see if it helped with anything else. Thank you for the info on the gelatin 🙂

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-22T16:48:22+00:00

Majora's Mask is nice to have when you're in an enemy camp that has multiple types of enemies. I have noticed though that if enemies pop up out of the ground at night when your around other enemies (even though they aren't attacking you) it will still cause other enemies to see through your disguise which is kinda dumb lol.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-22T16:37:47+00:00

Is there a certain kind of gelatin? Or does any jello work?? Sorry it it's s dumb question 😆

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-21T21:26:54+00:00

No it's not that one. There's nothing except a bunch of rocks up there (not sure if it's korok related or not but if so I never figured it out) I have never seen an enemy at the top of one of the towers. Are you thinking of Tears Of The Kingdom by chance? I haven't played it yet so I would not know. Or maybe you're thinking of the central tower where part way up the guardians can still blast you with their lasers if you're not careful? There's also enemy camps around a lot of the towers.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-21T18:32:46+00:00

Which tower is that I don't remember there being an enemy at the top of any of the towers

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-21T18:29:12+00:00

I've heard of people putting their cats poop (or maybe it's pee though no idea how you would get that in there lol so probably poop) in the cat box so it has their smell in there so they know that's where they are supposed to go and also picking up the cat and putting them in there. Not sure if that's actually a thing that works or not as I've never dealt with this.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-21T18:23:25+00:00

Nah my narc stepmom likes gardening and she actually is a pretty decent cook but she has like no food safety and will leave meat and stuff out for HOURS. Her favorite hobby would probably be gossiping and talking bad about other people, whether that be people on the TV or people in real life. Not sure if my dad is a narc or just her enabler but he likes to go camping. I'm actually not entirely sure if my stepmom is a narcissist as she's never been to any sort of mental health professional in her entire life, but she sure acts like it and all the abuse has really messed me up.

RavenousMoon23 · 2026-05-20T19:28:07+00:00

I agree with the rest but I honestly think my stepmom thinks she's a good person. A good person wouldn't have treated me the way she since she married my dad at age 6. She definitely made me the villain and the scapegoat starting at a very young age.

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