Yesterday, I rested all day, and I was beginning to feel like I had beat this cold with back-to-back episodes of “Law & Order” and scrambled eggs. On the “Under the Weather” channel, my hopeful forecast was “Cold, cold, go away!” for today.
But, when I woke up after a solid 9 hours of sleep, I was back to feeling lousy. So, what gives?! I did everything right (for once), but there I was dousing my throat with Chloraseptic at 5am. Though the spray worked wonders at making my sore throat go away temporarily; it repulsed me simultaneously, because its scent brought me back to the days when I unenthusiastically had to dissect a fetal pig in high school Biology.
After I sneezed, blew my nose, and then climbed on the couch without it telling me to do so, there was only one thing to do. Take it easy for yet another day, and try to look upon all this philosophically* instead of scientifically.**
* “Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.” ~George Jean Nathan
**I treated my cold with rest, “Law & Order,” kisses, a neck massage, a kitten, scrambled eggs, and a good night’s sleep, so why was I not up to biking 40 miles today, well, besides the fact that there was a foot of snow on the ground and it was 30 degrees outside?!
Accessories
“Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.” ~Marguerite Yourcenar
TV
“Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.” ~Alfred Hitchcock
Soup
“What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup -- that's good in bed.” ~ Brooke Shields
Feet
“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?” ~Lily Tomlin
Cats (Plume)
“Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?” ~ Karen Brademeyer
Dog
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace." ~ Milan Kundera
Sick and Tired
“I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.” ~ Fannie Lou Hamer
Normal and Healthy
Here’s what I look like when I’m, err, normal and healthy, and as Virgil said, “The greatest wealth is health.”
Okay, I don’t always look like this. I only look like this when I ask my hairdresser to make my hair look like Linda Evangelista’s did when she appeared on the cover of the November ’09 issue of “W” magazine!
And, based on the following quote…
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." ~World Health Organization, 1948
I was probably not healthy to begin with before this cold! Was it because “I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part*,” or was it that “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.**”
*Shirley MacLaine
**Oscar Wilde
Hmmm. I wonder. Meanwhile, pass the scrambled eggs, please. ♥
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