Tea Stains

So, I've been sick for the past week. I've been going through the full range of cold symptoms there are. I've started with a little cough, which escalated to a deep lungy-cough. I my nose started to run. It was just in time to flare my cough again, after it has subsided.
So I've been living on cough medicine, and anti-congestion pills, and tea.
Then, people wonder why I hate the winter.
It's cold! But more than that, it's wet. Sure, it's fine for people who can "stay curled up under a blanket" as everyone proclaims is the best thing about winter, but how many of really can stay in bed all day? About people with pets? Dogs, specifically. You can't train them to use the litter box...and you wouldn't want to. I have a golden retriever. And there is nothing she likes better than to go for walks in the rain. Goldens are funny that way with their love of water, whether is be standing in pools or falling from the sky. Being somewhat adamant against having my dog roam the streets alone, getting hit by the occasion car driven by your average stoned driver (everyone acts a little stoned after a day at work, no?), I walk my dog. On a lead. Even if I try to find a little break in the rain, I always end up caught by a little to a lot of rain.
It is true. I can handle the Cold. But the Wet is a real moral killer. It goes all the way to my army days, when, after standing in the pouring rain in the biggest storm of the year for about three days, I never felt so low.
So, tea. Lot's of it. Sooth the throat, loosen the lungs, worms you right up. My problem is that I have eight cups at home. I usually use a cup per day, so it means that I can stretch my cups for about a week. More importantly, there is a week between dish-washing duties. The problem is, tea stains. You see all the DIY/artsy shows. They always use tea to stain new things to make the look old. Well, I'm sad to report that my cups have now a aged, tea-stained look to their insides now.
I should really wash my cups as soon as I'm done with them.
I'll do it.
Right now!
I've finished my morning cup of tea, and I am going directly to the kitchen sink and wash it!

(muse: Um...well actually, I'm kinda late for work...no time for this.)

I'll to it tonight, as soon as I get home.
I promise!
I really do....