I hope none of you can forgive me, but as some of you may know I missed the \u201cHappy Friday!!!\u201d deadline this yesterday; which was the day before today because today is Saturday now and I haven’t posted a new \u201cHappy Friday!!!\u201d until just now, which actually makes it a \u201cHappy Saturday!!!\u201d but I have a very good excuse in spite of this questionably punctuated run-on sentence.<\/p>\n
Yes.<\/p>\n
You see, Wednesday evening I snorked something jingly in my nose, and my throat started to raspify and also sorify, neither of which are words but they describe in pretty accurate detail the ouchiness of my throat place. I was getting a stinkin’ cold for cryin’ out loud. This was not something I deemed fair; so I tried to gargle some Listerine and HOLY ACKKK PTOOO that stuff is NASTY!! Didn’t help much neither.<\/p>\n
Then I sucked on a zinc lozenge or two or maybe three and that didn’t stop the onset neither. OK, now it was time for the Holy Moly Vitamin C With Extra Goodies Fizzy Thing and the nasty bug didn’t let go. So… then I went to work Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
Then, I came home from work Thursday morning. I had some Campbell’s Chicken Gumbo soup to which I added about 1 teaspoon of thyme, 1 teaspoon of sage (those open the sinuses) and heated it up to a bubbly wazoo. As soon as the boiling wazoo was blubbining, I took the soup off the heat and added the finely chopped VERY LARGE CLOVE of garlic that I harvested from the garden the other day. Covered it quickly, came back in a couple minutes and the garlic was cookified enough to be palatable but not harmed. Too much heating of fresh garlic reduces its cold whomping properties you see.<\/p>\n
Too soon old, too late smart sometimes, but I’m getting better at listening to my body and my friends. On Thursday, a friend told me just before I left work, \u201cyou need to be warm and get some rest.\u201d And my body said, \u201cI’m sick, take me home now.\u201d Then I called in sick for Friday too, and enjoyed more cold killing soup and much sleeping.<\/p>\n
OK then! I feel much better now thank you. And although I’m a very huggy guy, we went to a large gathering tonight and I warned all my friends that I’ve been fighting a cold. Most ran away screaming and flailing their arms in terror (I exaggerate slightly perhaps). Others hugged me anyway. Well, only three hugged me anyway. But I don’t blame those who didn’t… I don’t want anyone to suffer. My Beautiful Girlfriend had me look it up today… you can be contagious for 5 to 7 days after the cold symptoms appear!! So, I’ll be warning my friends until Thursday because I love them.<\/p>\n
There, that’s the story my friends. As I mentioned earlier, I’m getting better at taking care of myself when illness attacks. In the \u201cgood old days,\u201d I would have taken cold medicine and tried to tough it out at work, and continue my daily routine. This would inevitably cause a cold to last for well over a week rather than a couple days. I’ll try to make this a habit when a cold knocks on my snotlocker.<\/p>\n
I like ditching the bugs more quickly, thank you. <\/p>\n
Ker-Choo!!<\/p>\n