Kombucha Tea

Do you ever keep making the same mistake over and over again simply because you don't think -- at least don't think until after you already made the mistake?

Well, I did it again.

Here's what it's about:

My body is very sensitive to coffee and tea. I don't even drink coffee any more because I get wired, and it lasts all day. I get so wired I'm a dynamo of nervous energy. I'm like a kid with ADD.

Herb teas I will have, of course, and once in a while a little regular tea at a Chinese lunch buffet. I love tea out of those cute little cups. [Heaven Admin, I want you to know that I have already parted with the ten or twelve darling little cups I had and never drank from.]

Now, there is Kombucha tea, which is very healthy. It's a fermented tea. Heaven Admin makes it, and I used to. To make this tea, you use real tea and also a specific culture that is called a mushroom, although it is not a mushroom at all. I stopped making this tea because making it requires some keeping track and knowing when you started it, and it takes a week or so, and I just have too much on my mind.

Anyway, a dear friend of mine, Marie, makes it, and I can get it from her. She makes Kombucha with elderberries in it. This is my very favorite. There is something about the flavor of elderberries that I just love.

Now that Lauren is in Chicago, I don't have the use of a car. Today another friend, Dianita -- called Dianita because she once had an adventure in Guatemala -- went to Marie's to pick up two quarts of elderberry Kombucha for me. Perhaps you remember Dianita from The Singing Bowls blog entry. http://www.godwriting.org/godwriting/dianita-and-the-singing-bowls-chakr...

As I said, I just love the elderberry Kombucha. Without thinking, I sipped it all day, and then after a light supper, I kept drinking it. I kept drinking and not thinking. At about 1 a.m. when I still couldn't fall asleep, I remembered I had had quite a bit of Kombucha and that I can't fall asleep when I drink Kombucha after 12 noon. It is about 2 a.m. now, and I decided to come downstairs and tell you all about why I couldn't sleep.

I have so much Kombucha energy right now I could shovel snow, build a house, run a race, lift a barge, swim an ocean. Tomorrow, when I need to be awake, undoubtedly I'll be groggy-eyed and low-key.

Do you ever forget and make a mistake of some kind again and again and again?