Cold Comfort
Bleah, still sick. Went out today and bought yucky green-coloured Nyquil. Ick. Shudder.
I tend to hate any kind of medication and also tend to come from the camp who would rather tough out an illness then take any kind of medicine. I'm firmly convinced in most cases my cold is going to last pretty much the same duration whether I take icky-tasting cold remedies or not. But on the off chance it will help get me healthy for singing and parent interviews next week I will worry down several capfuls of this stuff over the weekend.
And since a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, I also indulged in a small tub of Strawberry Cheesecake Haagen Dazs ice cream. I only get ice cream cravings when my throat is sore.
And, hey, the four hobbits are on the cover of the new Premiere magasine, so I indulged in that, too. Mind you, that read would be more fun if I hadn't already read all the LOTR articles in the magasine over at theonering.net over a week ago, though I imagine there's more to read in there than just hobbits. A once-through turned up an article about Ewan McGregor in "Big Fish", for example, and, hey, that's entertainment. It is telling, though, just how much money I've saved on magasines featuring LOTR because the articles are posted on-line on the Tolkien sites days before the magasines actually hit the racks. You've got to figure magasines must lose a ton of money for that reason.
Also notice that People magasine has had the good taste this week in picking Johnny Depp as the sexiest man of the year. As if I couldn't have told them that several years ago, though it does disturb me just a tad that Johnny has become -that- mainstream. Time to have him do some more weird and independent roles to get him away from "Entertainment Tonight" and "People" spotlight again. Let them focus on Michael Jackson, instead. (Anyone else dreading the onslaught of the sordid Jackson court case next year? Good Lord, could the news outlets have drooled more when that story broke this week?)
And, of course, I'm spending the rest of the weekend on the couch watching "While You Were Out" transform a backyard garden in their first ever episode in Canada, a British designer transform an American room on "Trading Spaces" and a bazillion movie craftsmen transform New Zealand into Middle-earth on DVD.
Off to read and rest.
I tend to hate any kind of medication and also tend to come from the camp who would rather tough out an illness then take any kind of medicine. I'm firmly convinced in most cases my cold is going to last pretty much the same duration whether I take icky-tasting cold remedies or not. But on the off chance it will help get me healthy for singing and parent interviews next week I will worry down several capfuls of this stuff over the weekend.
And since a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, I also indulged in a small tub of Strawberry Cheesecake Haagen Dazs ice cream. I only get ice cream cravings when my throat is sore.
And, hey, the four hobbits are on the cover of the new Premiere magasine, so I indulged in that, too. Mind you, that read would be more fun if I hadn't already read all the LOTR articles in the magasine over at theonering.net over a week ago, though I imagine there's more to read in there than just hobbits. A once-through turned up an article about Ewan McGregor in "Big Fish", for example, and, hey, that's entertainment. It is telling, though, just how much money I've saved on magasines featuring LOTR because the articles are posted on-line on the Tolkien sites days before the magasines actually hit the racks. You've got to figure magasines must lose a ton of money for that reason.
Also notice that People magasine has had the good taste this week in picking Johnny Depp as the sexiest man of the year. As if I couldn't have told them that several years ago, though it does disturb me just a tad that Johnny has become -that- mainstream. Time to have him do some more weird and independent roles to get him away from "Entertainment Tonight" and "People" spotlight again. Let them focus on Michael Jackson, instead. (Anyone else dreading the onslaught of the sordid Jackson court case next year? Good Lord, could the news outlets have drooled more when that story broke this week?)
And, of course, I'm spending the rest of the weekend on the couch watching "While You Were Out" transform a backyard garden in their first ever episode in Canada, a British designer transform an American room on "Trading Spaces" and a bazillion movie craftsmen transform New Zealand into Middle-earth on DVD.
Off to read and rest.