Andrew and I went over to Whole Foods last night to stock back up on Mental ClariTea and to see if we could find and purchase some sage capsules. According to the article I posted yesterday, traditional healers and herbalists have known about the effects of sage on memory for ages. However, the mass-market producers of dietary supplements are somewhat slow on the uptake. All we were able to find was one brain health multi tablet that had sage in it as well as a few other things like ginger (stimulates circulation), ginkgo biloba (also shown to have positive effects on memory), and omega 3 fatty acids (important for normal brain development) but it was fairly expensive @ $18 for a 60 count bottle. We decided to forage around at a few different stores before deciding how we wanted to handle adding sage to our daily intake. We went over to tea isle to pick up my two boxes of Mental ClariTea. We glanced at the other boxes of tea to see if anything jumped out as something we might like to try and Andrew noticed a box of Think-02 tea by Traditional Medicinals. In looking at the supplement facts, he noted that the tea contained sage leaf, among other things: peppermint leaf, ginkgo leaf and dry extract, gotu kola leaf, rosemary leaf, lemon balm leaf, Siberian ginseng root, natural lemon flavor, stevia leaf. I have no idea what most of those herbal ingredients do. However, I do know it tastes pretty good with the tiniest bit of honey. My head feels nice and clear after drinking an 8oz cup, steeped uncovered for the full recommended 15 minutes. I figure drinking this tea and using fresh sage (which we picked up at Harris Teeter, but you can get it at most any grocery store) in our cooking is good way to introduce it to our diet.
Speaking of our diet, it has gone to hell as late. School has been throwing us off a bit. We come home at night after a long day not feeling much like cooking or cleaning up after the resulting mess. We went out to eat twice this week. On Tuesday night we went to Fudrucker's and gorged ourselves on hamburgers, french fries, and onion rings. Wednesday evening we went out again! That time we went to the Macaroni Grill. I think Andrew has been trying to spoil me rotten lately.
Further on the topic of Andrew spoiling me, guess what thumped against the apartment door yesterday? Well, yeah, it was a package. Duh. Okay, now guess what was in it? No, not my xylophone, I prolly won't see that until at least the beginning of next week. A Palm Zire Messenger bag!! I had been previously disappointed to learn that I had bought my new Palm Zire a month too soon to qualify for the free bag promotion and Andrew made it up to me by buying it online and surprising me with it. He had written a guest entry here on August 24th stating that he had found it in the Palm Store, but I didn't realize he was serious about getting it for me because "negotiations" had never actually taken place for repayment. I play-pretend that I'm suspicious of what all he might be after and he just assures me that he loves me and that's all there is to his spoiling me.