Woe (Still)

[tourmaline]

My cold isn't getting any better. Thankfully I discovered that a mini ice pack (made from the little plastic shapes you put in drinks to keep them cold without ice) is a good way of soothing swollen painful sinuses. I shoved the unused ones into a Thermos flask so I can keep them upstairs overnight, as they're usually kept in the freezer which is for all intents & purposes outside the house & therefore not particularly accessible at 2am when you have no energy and no will to get through all the locked doors. But still not getting much sleep, and I think it's spreading to my throat. A smoothie works there, but I'll have to hope someone is planning a trip to the shops to keep me stocked up. I also have an Innocent Veg Pot which I'd bought for lunch at work one day in the week which needs eating up. They're delicious, so should be good.

Tonight is new QI and Stephen Fry is on the Jonathan Ross Show. I hope they're both good, can't remember who is on QI tonight, some of the regulars I think. I hope my cold doesn't last, otherwise I'll get behind on Uni work - my get-aheads have nearly disappeared thanks to taking a complete break for the Squeee Odyssey and now this. It's really interesting stuff without equations to learn so I'll try & do some more reading before the weekend is over.

Comments

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Innocent Veg Pot?

As opposed to a guilty one? Inquiring (and no doubt juvenile) minds want to kow.

[tourmaline1973.livejournal.com]

Innocent - www.innocentdrinks.co.uk - pots of veg you heat in the microwave, very yummy, from the same people who make the awesome smoothies and who secondsilk was applying for a job with.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! If I could keep my San Francisco weather (and a few other things) I would so come over there and be British, just for the cool factor of stuff like that.


Gingey in front of Selfridges (where they don't sell fridges) makes me smile EVERY TIME.

[bmax67.livejournal.com]

Awwww, I hope your cold gets better.

Sucks being sick.

[tourmaline1973.livejournal.com]

Thank you... I hope it goes away soon too :)

[luna-argentea.livejournal.com]

Have you tried Sudafed? I remember the last time I had an awful cold with blocked sinuses that kept me awake all night and the next day I bought a packet of Sudafed, took a dose before going to bed and was able to get a good night's sleep. It has epinephrine (adrenaline) in it but it didn't keep me awake.

I hope you feel better soon!

[tourmaline1973.livejournal.com]

Thank you, yes I had some Sudafed too. Things are improving - today has been the first day where I've not been whimpering pathetically, and I've done some Uni reading, thankfully it's on taxonomy which I did on a short course so not really new.

The ice packs were nice, I thought of them because I had the window open to watch the ISS pass, and noticed the cold air felt good on my poor nose, which led me to the notion of applying ice or something ice-like. Rather Housian, I thought at the time :)