I don’t know if it’s a bad sick, or just a little wussy sick. Feels kinda cigaretty. I’ll start with coffee. Later I will throw some braised lamb at it (that would be lunch). If that doesn’t work, I’m making chicken soup when I get home (either “lemon grass and ginger,” or “unreasonable garlic”) and consuming a 2 liter of Old Towne G-Ale, multiple pints of oj, lots of water, and maybe some scotch and cigarettes (in case there’s something to this homeopathic bugaboo).
Anybody else having lunch today? Would you like to talk about it?
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Where the hell are you getting Braised Lamb for lunch?
You are right to feed a cold. Go with the unreasonable garlic Chicken soup.
Whe I was a youngling my mother would make me a garlic and lemon juice concoction. It scares the sickness right out of you.
I have no idea what to do for lunch. It is gorgeous outside in DC today. I'm feeling ham & swissy.
"Whe I was a "
Don't you mean "When"?
I drink hot whiskey and lemon when I'm feeling sickness coming on.
I am *starving*! No breakfast again. Except for my 2 cuppajoes. I really need to eat lite b/c I'm going to Russia House tonight for a tasting menu - 5 courses & they all look & sound extra hearty. Those Russians are well-fed people. When they're not suffering through commie-shortages & breadlines. So I will probably go for a salad. Although it's so cold out. Maybe I'll get a chicken-rice bowl with peanut sauce from Mr. Hibachi. And hot sauce. Mmmmm. It *does* have veggies in it.
Chicken soup for sure! If I'm not too sick & can actually make my own dinner, I throw some veggies & chicken breasts into a pot of broth & put Pillsbury biscuits on top - sort of a chicken & dumpling thing. Jo, that garlic-lemon thing sounds ghastly.
I'm telling you, chopped garlic and fresh lemon juice is the cure-all. Drink about a pint of it and you'll be curing other people by just breathing on them. I have also been submitting to homemade ginger tea by my mother. I think there was a tabasco cure somewhere down the line.
HT, when I was very young the bourbon and honey was my sorethroat and 'leave me the hell alone and go to bed' medicine. I always needed a few doses.
i brought a whole lot of random crap that needed to be consumed from my fridge: turkey lunch meat, swiss cheese, a wheat pita, tub o' hummus, a tomato, 1 hard/soft boiled egg (i ate that already for brekkies), 5 left over baby carrots and a granny smith apple.
as for your cold uncle sparkle, TAKE ZINC!!! i'm telling you, if you start taking zinc right now, you'll be able to fight this thing. i've done it a million times. take 2 in the morning. and, if you're really concerned, also take some "emer-gen-C" and "airborne" every couple of hours at the office. you can pick up these items at your local drug store.
in other words, vitamin yourself to death.
ZINC!!!!!!!!!
After watching HT in the BJ contest the other night, and then seeing Lachoi attempt with an empty glass, I can assure you neither of them are "all gums".
But the fellas probably wish they were...
i was just going to say, ricotubbs, you WISH i was all gums...but as HT and i agreed last night, the rigidity of the shot glasses does not reflect *ahem* our actual abilities. trust us.
and besides, i have no gag reflex. (i'm sure you all wanted to know that.)
i don't think zinc erodes your teeth since mine are intact and i've been doing the zinc remedy for quite some time. you consume it in pill form...perhaps it would if you were to make a drink of it or something??? but i'm telling you, that shit works.
OMG!!! Too funny. I was afraid HT or LC was going to break the glass.
Isn't coldeeze the big zinc lozenge? I just don't think they work.
taqueria! taqueria! is there even a decision that needs to be made?
Well as long as they used teeth they would. There are many schools of thought in that area.
Regardless, should I eat the normal lunch or the free one at Taqueria Arandas? mmmmmm ... barbacoa mmmmm
They have Zinc nose spray now which I've heard many people swear by.
Me? I buy the 500 tablets of chewable C and eat them like candy with lotsa water and green tea + lemon + honey.
Yeah, Jo, Coldeeze. It tastes like plastic when you're sucking on it. Ugh. I am a big fan of Airborne. That stuff rocks. But don't get the lemon-lime flavour - go for the original. More orangey. The lemon one is just gross.
Airborne is another one that I have tried but it doesn't seem to do anything. And I'm a HUGE alka seltzer fan (like Hater) so I really wanted it to work. Didn't do shit.
Too late, LaChoi, I am presently sucking on a Cold-Eeze (Tropical Fruit). Its okay. I wasn't looking for a pleasant experience, anyway.
The Osco downstairs has started this thing where they push a particular item at the register as an impulse buy. They got me on the white cheddar Pringles a few weeks back, but otherwise I’ve controlled myself. Today she asked me if I’d like to buy some fruit snacks to go with my Cold-Eeze. They had Hello Kitty and Pirates of the Caribbean. I got Pirates. I didn’t really even think about it. Totally dismissed Kitty, like she (is Hello Kitty a girl?) wasn’t even there.
Anyway, upon inspection, it turns out that one 25g pouch of this naturally and artificially flavored gummy substance contains 100% of my rda for C!! Cool beans! However, the folks at Cold-Eeze have admonished me not to eat or drink citrus with their product. (Osco totally failed to live up to its duty to warn.) So, now I’ve got a very sexy pirate staring at me and I have to ignore him. In fact, you’re going in the drawer, Officer Hansen. Now I can get back to being the sexy pirate.
Am I the only one who still likes to just get all hopped up on good old fashioned Day Quil and Tussin? Jeez.
I like alka seltzer too and I missed the fucking apostrophe in "its," I know.
Isn't too much vitamin C really bad for you or something?
In reference to Thera-Flu I've always considered it one of the "Big Guns". The last resort knock me out cure. That and a few Tylenol flu nighttimes will definitely give you flashbacks while you sleep.
Rico it's CHIPOTLE!
But I honestly think you know that already.
Can't use the DayQuil anymore. I took a bunch & came to work & was rolling. It was horrible, b/c I still had to work. I'm all about the Tussin & the NyQuil, though. Especially together.
And Jo (and all who care), the Airborne is more of a preventive - it's just a ton of vitamins. It might help prevent your cold from getting any worse (if you take it at the first sign), but it's not Theraflu.
Mmmm . . . Theraflu.
OSCILLOCOCINUM
(ah-sill-oh-cock-SEE-nuhm)
Miracle homeopathic flu cure.
Once only available on the black market and at GNC you can now get it at your local drug store
LT, I get the uber-high from Day Quil too. But, that's part of the fun.
Hater - my skin feels like that all winter anyway, so I've never noticed the difference. (seriously, I use Eucerin and Aquafor on my face; my summer face moisturizer is lubriderm. I've never found any meant-for-the-face moisturizers that do anything for me)
But, I digress. Carry on.
Hater, your little guy looks like maybe he took too much Dayquil!
I totally agree - I hate the feeling of Dayquil, even for a Saturday night buzz.
Between the chocolate and the orgasm thing, I think you've got your proof abunaigirl.
I've tried all of those Hater. I remember the first time I bought La Mer thinking it would set me up - but alas, no. I just used vaseline at night for years, until I discovered Aquafor. The funny thing is, I get compliments on my skin all the time, and I never break out, and I'm not wrinkly or anything. I also don't wash my face before bed. I just slather the thickest greasiest body cream I can find all over the makeup. Seriously, I should be a poster child for skin care don'ts.
I do like Kiehl's shaving stuff though. That stuff rocks.
if i put vaseline on my face, i'd become an oil slick. i have active sebaceus glands, i guess.
i realized that i also had half of my egg salad sandwich from yesterday chillin' in the fridge! i just ate it, and now i am so happy. i guess i can eat that other stuff as a "second lunch" around 230pm.
Despite my recent healthy livin' I too am way too healthy for my lifestyle. Though, I did eat 18 eggs last week.
But, my skin is a miracle of modern dermatological science.
I've been listening to Lyndon LaRouche's mobile propaganda Chrysler Le Baron outside which has been circling the block all day (remember I'm 8 floors up).
Apparently the architect of the Adolf Hitler administration, some guy named Karl Schmidt, now controls the Supreme Court.
I hate Nazis.
That "hammer than a nail" song is annoying enough on it's own. And of course now I have some weird pan flute version of it on a loop playing in my head. Thanks alot hater.
I think the worse I get outside my window is the weird carolers who sing some song about the flag all day. I've never been able to figure out who they are or what they want, but they love that fucking song.
Somethings burning...oh, apparently someone's computer just blew up.
i'm so sleepy...help!
I just came from my PreOp physical. I admitted to my doctor that I ate 18 eggs last week. I'm now having a cholesterol test in addition to all the other requisite bloodwork.
We don't get much noise on the street here, unless you count when Dick comes and goes, but generally, they keep the crazies to a minimum in these parts. Unless there's a big doins at the World Bank.
A couple of times someone has come to tow a car away in the one-hour lot in front of my office. We all got up to watch once b/c the guy's car alarm was going off. He came running out before the tow-truck guy could take the car, so the tow-truck dropped the car & left it in the middle of the road & took off! And then the car-alarm guy started running down the street trying to catch up with the tow-truck guy! When he couldn't catch him on foot, he ran back & got in his car! I was so sad I missed what was sure to be a rumble.
Other than that, since the Bush reelection team moved out of our office, we haven't had any protests or anything. Snore.
God, sorry, La Choi, this post probably put you to sleep even more.
Wikipedia is fantastic!
I miss you guys so much. My heart is breaking.
Uh huh.
What did you have for lunch?
Jade we need daily recaps from you if you are going to desert us during work hours. At least set us up with a post.
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