Angrily Shaking My Fist at Target

Today, I decided I needed something new to make my tea in at work. I got a tea ball in my stocking for christmas, but some of my teas are very fine and get out through the holes. I also needed something that wasn't going to take up a lot of spacce because my desk at work is already full of other work related things, and the desk is the equivalent of a fold-down tray table on an airplane. My friend had suggested getting a small tea pot with infuser, but when I saw this Bodum travel mug, I thought it would be perfect and got it.

Basically, you put your tea or coffee in the bottom, fill with hot water, and press. The press is mesh with rubber around so none of the leaves get into your beverage. I was pretty excited about it. I took that with a couple other things, including 2 bottles of Italian soda to the check out. Now, I understand that being a checker at Target may not be the most exciting job in the world, and as such, an employee may become apathetic to that job, but seriously, is it that hard to take some care with what you're doing? This girl pretty much dropped the 2 glass bottles into a bag, I had not noticed that this was the same bag that she put the travel press in until I got home. There's a huge chip in the bottom of the cup, and she somehow managed to cause a large crack up the side of the inner plastic. So, not only do I not get to test the thing out tonight, I've also got to find time to return it and get a new one. I'm really not looking forward to standing the customer service line. At all.

*crams another piece of mochi in face to ease sorrows*

In other news, as may be suspected by my heightened consumption of tasty mochi, I did make it down to Chinatown today and picked up a couple things, including new heavier chopsticks and onigiri molds.

I got these ones:

and another set that has shapes, I think a star, heart, flower, and possibly just a round one. *twiddles fingers*. It may still be a good week afterall.