Things that Make Me Feel Better When I'm Sick

1.) My mom's chicken and rice. It always involves potatoes and those little starry shaped noodles. And her chicken is just always so much better than the way mine turns out when I try to make it. The ultimate in comfort food: made with love, consumed for the soul and spirit with mommy care in every tiny grain of rice.

2.) Daisies. Such friendly flowers. Extra points if you know where that came from, because the source material would be on this list if the DVD were not missing in action.

3.) My copy of Eclipse that Cory annotated for me. I almost always revisit it when I'm feeling under the weather and his short notes in the margins and long notes in the back cover make me feel just like he's not across an ocean and here to give hugs.

4.) A cup of Earl Grey, with a splash of milk and a little bit of honey. I'm certain that most of the world's problems could be solved with a cup of tea in the afternoon.

5.) Surprise sick day visits from people who love you enough to brave your germs to come keep you company. Even the kind of visitors that stay generally out of the way of your personal space to try to stay not sick, but still talk and watch movies and bring things for cheer and comfort (including bot not limited to food, gatorade, orange juice, films, books, magazines, bits of gossip, etc.)

6.) Coloring. Seriously. When bed bound, I have been known to bust out the crayons and my Princess coloring book and color away. Maybe it's because I feel like I'm 7 and useless when I'm sick?

7.) NyQuil Comas. I feel like this is self-explanatory.

8.) The lotion-y tissues. They don't destroy your nose when you have to blow it a hundred times an hour.

9.) Reading new books/ watching new movies and tv shows. It's always a little escape to see or do something new which is always lovely.

On that note, it's back to bed with sniffles and a cough for me :( I think you know what that means...^^^