A Gemini's Life

Day 1 of the special tea formulated by the Chinese Herbalist:
I think to myself, okay you can do this. How bad can it be?

I boil the 4 cups of water and add the rather large bag of what appears to be twigs and slices of branches, and shells...
Directions say to boil on low for one hour, so I return to the scrapbooking project I was working on.
I notice the air filling with the scent of... China?
After the hour of boiling I pour the remaining liquid into a mug and quickly realize I seriously need to filter this as little leaves and twigs are plopping into the mug along with the tea.
And speaking of "tea"... I have drunk a lot of tea in my life. This was no tea. More like murky coffee... or Chinese mud.
Mud, Gena? Quit exaggerating. It's tea...
So I filter my tea and return to the scrapbooking. What's nicer on a Sunday evening than a fun project and a cup of tea?
I take my first sip. Well, that's different. Take another, larger drink. Eehh. God. I'm supposed to drink this shit???
I decide to put it down. Maybe it just needs to cool down a bit.
Um, yeah, you guessed it. It got worse.

So, lesson learned. This tea is not for sipping. You need to plug your nose and gulp the shit out of this tea. Which is what I did the following nights.
Boil,
filter,
cool,
gulp.