By lunch time I’m sipping on iced tea, usually with a couple of refills. For dinner I’ll have iced tea again, and occasionally at night I’ll have a glass of hot tea. If I’m out to dinner maybe a cappuccino.

I just can’t do tea in the mornings!

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1.)same here, by mornings seem rocky, till that first cup. i feel sluggish, irritable, and just plain ole ‘i dont wanna talk, i dont wanna work … where’s my cup??‘ hahaha
2.)and the tea? man o man, have you got that one right … heavily iced, Iced Tea is how i take it. usually in my monster-sized-jumbo-711-44-ounce cup.

Work is based around the consumtion of diet Coke, until about 2 pm. Then it is straight water, or decafinated diet Coke( or other de-caf diet soda) until about 9 pm. If I have too much caffine too late, I’m like Anne, and can’t sleep.

As for tea, as a true son of the south, it’s iced tea or nothing. Although, inlight of my advancing decrepitude and to avoid any more poundage in the mid-section, I prefer it unsweetened, with lemon. I can’t say that I am a gourmet about the coffee or tea that I drink, but I do prefer Earl Grey and Green Teas, as well as, Jamaican Blue Mountain, Kona, or a good roasted arabica in coffee. The reality is that I’m usually drinking whatever the wife picked up on sale, and am thankful to have that.

I prefer coffee but I am not a regular coffee drinker. I think the aroma has a lot to do with it for me. Drinking tea never seems fulfilling to me. I’ve never experienced this crash that people talk about when drinking coffee. Maybe that has something to do with all of the sugar that people put in their coffee and all of these calorie heavy mocha drinks that are so popular. Coffee used to keep me up at night but after I quit drinking soda I haven’t experienced any insomnia. I guess I’m just lucky.

As someone who can only drink decaf, I’d not really married to the question, but I do get tired of working with/for people who are so loaded on caffeine that they forget the idea of reasonable deadline. And, for me, work is just one piece of life — I want to be feeling calm & present for all of it.

Tea time is after 2oclock and I preferably go for Twinings Green Tea. Then for late night relaxing, and working, I break out the Yogi Tea. Green Tea Panax Ginseng and Kombucha. Its nice and relaxing and the taste is to die for. Plus it has Yoga moves on every box, so if i need some stretching, i break out the tea box for a lesson!

If meeting with clients throughout the day, or chilling at Starbucks, I will grab a mild blend if its before noon, or Zen green tea in the afternoons. Tea in the afternoon really seems to increase my productivity and get me moving. But nothing beats waking up to that Starbucks [addiction] smell.