last week at a glance

OK - at approximately 1:15 a.m. last Sunday morning (just after drinking my only beer of the night), I had the strong inpulse to make some tea. This was fairly surprising, and a first clue that something was up.  So i boiled up a nice fruit herbal tea, drank it down, and went to bed.

Yet shortly after laying down, I noticed an "off" feeling in my throat and lungs.  I was able to sleep alright that night, but upon waking definitely noticed that a cold had arrived. So I immediately went into "healing mode":

get as much sleep as needed (read: you can sleep and get up whenever you want...); boil water in pans for warm, humid air; have soup at almost every meal; make a throatload of tea :D; etc...  [naturally this also means no alcohol, (smoking), or particular cookies ;)

Well, by next saturday, I'm feeling pretty good (though decidedly not "great!")...  And I woke up this morning, had a nice bowl of split pea soup, kicked back and surfed the web a bit.  And through the magic of free time on the net, came across the brillance of this...

Seeing that made me then want to watch some of this again...

And later this evening, after a good, hot refried beans dinner, I watched an edifying movie about the mysteries of yoga as experienced by a modern skeptic...

After doing all this, I got up and made the last of my box of herbal fruit teas (wild berry zinger). As I drank it, I realized I'd felt solid the entire day, and quite good right now.  And with that, I declared my cold to be officially over :)  And now that I feel good again, to paraphrase World of Twist, I gotta get back to the noise and confusion...