Pulling out all the stops...

I got home after work and a quick stop for supplies at the corner store and decided it was time for the Big guns since I still felt like hell. So, using everything I had and several big pages out of my herbalism books:

I made some quick chicken soup with six extra cloves of garlic.
Ate two raw ones along with the soup. Hoohah! Who's yer mommy?!?
Took cough medicine like a good Maus.
Made hot lemon goop with cloves and cinnamon and honey, and drank it in the tub while covered in the hottest water I could stand,
Talked to a friend on the phone for a while..okay not real bright, but it made me feel better, and the garlic was kicking in...
Watched "Joe Millionare"...okay, that made me sicker. Twisted producer bastards!!
Covered myself with every blanket I owned and slept hard.

I woke up feeling much improved, though nowhere near out of the woods yet. I've been chugging juice and foritfied stuff, and I'm bringing lemon juice to work for hot lemonades again. Tomorrow I should be able to get off with some work on my part.

someday I'll have more to talk about than this damn cold, but it's taking up all my time.:(

I have tomorrow off as a sick day....

Insert "Tequila' dance here.....

I'm slowly getting better, but I definitly have bronchitis now.
So. More echinacea, maybe the last of that herbal tea ben the neighbor gave me a while back to help me sleep, with mint and skullcap and whatnot. I think when I feel better I need to hit the Wedge and stock up, since I've been drinking up my herbal cupboard. I'm out of candied ginger, and lemon balm, and almost out of chammomile. At least my bath bombs are keeping my spirits up:)

I'm fretting for a lot of my firends lately...seems we're all in various states of unease and unhappiness lately, for a myriad of reasons. Every now and again I keep wanting to say, "Screw it--We're all going to a nice LJ co-op somewhere pretty, where we'll grow plants and there will be soup in every pot, meaningful fun work, coffee outings and DSL in every home, bebeh!" *Siiiiiigh*....Granted if we did have a commune our closest neighbors would probably be a milita or those gun-toting-neo-Nazis down the road or something...

But I'm thinking of you. I hope you're all doing something good for yourself...even something small.

Small things are good, you know. So sez 5'4 me.

Agent Cooper Sez....

"Every day...try to give yourself a present. Don't try to plan it. A nap in your office,....or a hot cup of coffee."

*sip*







Remembered from memory, probably misquoted, but you get the idea. David Lynch is a misunderstood Zen Master.