I love the mug too. $20 isn't bad, but I'd probably have to sell a child to afford to pay for shipping costs from the States to Canada. They seem to be atrocious these days.
I'm a tea drinker. I don't suppose she tried to console a cup of tea that didn't wanna talk, did she?  
I've actually been astonished by shipping prices lately.  I could do one of those, "why, 

 I remember when a stamp cost___ " posts.
No, but your hubby can drink his coffee with sugar and cream and you can drink your decaf, herbal tea  
