Coping Mechanism: Flowers!

I've stopped drinking any form of designer coffee entirely. (I used to work right above an Au Bon Pain, which means that this was a rather major behaviour change.) And once I got over the shakes, it's been quite nice just making do with tea at home. At the start of this experiment I started noting how many times I'd WANT a coffee and didn't get it, and having totalled all of that up? Man, I wasted a lot of money on coffee.

The wise thing to do here is to save all that money. But if you live like a total miser, you will eventually become evil and depressed, so I'm trying to counter that by scouting out things that cost about the same amount as a latte, but last for much, much longer. So Laurie, though I don't have a Trader Joe's locally, I'm totally on board this trend: flowers!

All of the bunches here are under $7 (though the tea roses are two separate bunches all stuffed into a trifle stand). Obviously, the only proper vase I have is the square one with the white tulips in -- did you know that you can put tulips in an oddly-shaped vase like that, and they'll pitch themselves up towards the light? Clever little buggers... Anyhow. Don't buy a vase unless you can find one cheap, just use whatever you've got in the kitchen (see: jug, trifle dish).

I can't tell you how much my mood's improved since buying these. Go buy flowers immediately! Or a plant! Or both!

Bar that, clean the house while jamming to the tragically danceable Bale Remix. I have no take on the source material, but man, the remix is catchy...