Laughter, Happiness, and Masala Chai

So the day was absolute crap, it seemed that every little thing was poking me the wrong way, people were really grating my nerves, and not a thing I could see in the news was helping.  So I spent time between reports and doing standard supervisor work with nice Fruit & Spice tea from the local spice shop.  I took my breaks to read the Cha Tao, the Way of Tea.  I was doing my best to find my center during the preparation of my tea, pouring the tea into my Teavana cup, and stirring in sugar.  So I noticed while I was finding my calm and feeling connection with the Tao as I stirred my tea that I stir my tea anti-clockwise.

An amazingly wonderful friend, Mitzie, pointed out that this possibly has meaning as widdershins is the direction of banishment; so by subconsciously stirring in that direction I am trying to rid myself of the negative.  I personally very much like this idea.

David was wonderful and we had an impromptu date night.  Our friend, Jen, has mentioned that it was possible to make a Toothless stuffed animal at Build-A-Bear.  Being a giant HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON fan, I told David.  Now, told might be putting it gently...I giggled and danced when I told him.  I didn't even think that mean anything for tonight, but David was so sweet and made our first stop going to Build-A-Bear and buying/building a 17" stuffed Toothless!!  I was so excited and got to make a wish on the heart and seal it with a kiss and then put the heart inside Toothless!  David was wonderful and patient and put up with my need to relax and be happy at having a new baby to snuggle.  The lady that helped us was very sweet and was adorable with asking me to play along because that is part of the whole Build-A-Bear experience.

So after getting Toothless we decided to go to get delicious Indian food.  David had chicken tikka masala.  I got lamb roganjosh (which I love and is my favorite).  We had puri and tandoor naan.  David had iced tea and I (of course) ordered masala chai.  The tea was perfect and amazing, I had two cups.  When our food was brought to the table we started joking and laughing and just enjoying being on a cute date with some of our favorite food and I had a delicious cup of tea.

So over a delicious meal, a perfect cuppa, and with the most wonderful dinner partner ever ever ever, I finally calmed down from the day and enjoyed every minute of our date night.