foodie confessions

so I'm sick (still). I didn't go in to work again today because I was feeling extra crappy this morning and had a fever. I spent another day in bed watching Buffy season 6 and Angel season 3 on my laptop. I'm enjoying the lounge, but also hating the amount of snot I'm working with.

I don't get sick often, though it seems this past year I've been knocked for a loop twice now (once was a stomach flu, and now this). I could have seen this coming. I've been pushing hard for weeks without a real break. Even this past weekend, which was my first weekend without work (sortof), involved non-relaxing airport travel and too much crazy partying and not enough sleep. I think my body finally said STOP. And so for 2 days now, I've (mostly) stopped.

I've been thinking about self-care, and what I have and have not been doing. Normally for me self-care involves comfort food, good food (goat cheeses, in-season fruit, fresh artisan bread, etc). Today, my cravings have been for a different sort of comfort food. And so, at 6pm, I gave in to my cravings and ventured to the grocery store. Here's what I bought: fresh ginger (for making ginger tea), campbell's vegetarian vegetable soup, kleenex brand tissues, 3 packages of Oriental flavor Maruchan Ramen noodles, and a box of fudgesicles. I know, I know, how much sodium and corn syrup can a body handle?! Well, this self-imposed guilt is there, though eating a second fudgesicle should help with that.