Of Tea Stains and Tiredness

I’ve stopped drinking tea.  To be precise, I’ve stopped drinking tea at the office*.  Every morning I would drink a couple of cups, that was, until I noticed it was staining my teeth something chronic.  Horrible big fat stains over the front of my teeth**. 

So I decided to cut out the tea – it’s not going to fix the damage that’s been done, but it will stop it getting any worse. 

What I didn’t bank on was how tired I’d feel without my morning caffeine shots.  So tired, in fact, that I was barely able to keep my eyes open all morning.  Come lunch time I had to take a trip to Starbucks to hook up the coffee drip.  But alas, tis too late now.  Nothing can lift my eyelids now and I just have to hope I can make it through another hour and then the journey home on the Northern line.  Without.  Closing.  My.  Eyes***.

May have to buy Pro Plus.

*At our office we don’t get PG tips, we don’t get Tetley, or any other random supermarket-available tea brand.  We get eco-friendly, recycleable, probably not as fairtrade as they claim tea.

**Try as I might, I can’t get rid of these stains.  I know it’s the office tea that’s responsible, I’ve never had this trouble before and I used to drink a hell of a lot more tea than I have been over the past few months.  I gave up using those tooth-whitening wands as they weren’t making a blind bit of difference.  I tried various different brands of whitening toothpaste.  I’m using Pearl Drops Party Sparkle which has really brightened my teeth but just won’t touch those stains.  Nothing seems to want to shift them.  If anyone has any great ideas I’d love to know.  The only things I haven’t tried are laser whitening (who has the money for that anyway) and those heavy duty home whitening kits.  I don’t have a spare half hour in a day, let alone two to sit with my teeth in funny mould things.

***Because if I close them I’ll be up at High Barnet before they open again.