- Garlic update! So, remember how I tried curing my Christmas flu with garlic and it didn't work? Well, last week I felt myself coming down with yet another cold from one of my kids (side note: when you work in someone's home, wipe their nose all day and get coughed on repeatedly, no matter how many times you wash your hands and use sanitizer, you're pretty much guaranteed to catch their germs!) I hit up the garlic hard core. I started eating raw garlic like I was planning for a vampire apocalypse. And once again, it didn't work :( So, I don't know if I'm just not catching these buggers early enough but garlic is 0 for 2 now. Anyone else ever had success fighting a cold with garlic?
- In an attempt to feel better from said cold, I left the grocery store last Friday with the cleanest cart full of food you ever did see. Green smoothies for days.
- Last week the cats (and I) watched "Voices From Auschwitz" on CNN. It was a special commemorating the 70th anniversary of the death camp's liberation. Harrowing. One day, I'd like to see it in person. Many of the survivors toured the site as part of the anniversary observance, but I can't imagine wanting to go back there ever again if I had lived through it. Also check out our TV. We like to keep things as low-tech as possible over here:
- New books! One for work, but the others are simply for the sweet sweet pleasure of consuming words:
- I wash my hands so much at work, that they are becoming painfully dry and cracking (and yet, I somehow still contract viruses?!). I just got this cream because it was cheap and had good reviews online but its not impressing me or improving my skin that much. Also it contains parabens which I'd rather steer clear of. Anyone in healthcare/teaching/etc have the same issue and can recommend a reallllllllllly good hand cream? Regular lotions are just not cutting it!
- Gift for one of my new families. I love the design trend of putting animal faces on the rumps of infant clothing. If only it were acceptable for me to wear pants like this (I would):
- In addition to all this randomness, I've made it my job the past 2 weeks to try out every non-dairy popcorn currently on the market! Tough job stuffing my face with bags and bags of salty snacks but I am hoping to have a post up soon with the fruits of my labor. So fear not, my fellow compadres in search of dairy-free snacking goodness, help is on the way!
Has garlic ever cured any of your ills?!
Have any magic cream that will save my hands?!
Make sure you check out 479 popcorn if you haven't already! Alex and I finished watching The War on Netflix last week, and the last part talks about the Americans finding the death camps and it literally just makes you sick. It is almost too much. I do know that garlic is a detoxifier, but I don't think that it is strong enough. Zicam I've heard works, but beyond that, you might just be on your own. Feel better!
ReplyDeleteSusie, I can't find 479 popcorn anywhere near me! I actually have heard of it/seen it before somewhere but I can't find it in any stores.
DeleteYeah I don't know what the deal with garlic is! I read all of these accounts of people nixing their colds with it, but all that is happening is that I'm literally burning my esophagus with raw garlic! hahaha. I have also tried Zicam and Cold Eeze tabs in the past, but nothing really seems to stop a cold. I think you are right, despite all of our advances, we humans are still at the mercy of the mighty common cold!
One of my friend's mom was a little girl about 10 years old living in Berlin during WWII. Before she died a couple of years ago, she recorded all of her stories from that time. Heartbreaking. She said she had nightmares up until she was dying from the cancer about what happened in those camps and the smells were something she would never forget. I can't even imagine.
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Hi Jen. Thanks for stopping by. That woman's account is truly terrifying. It still blows my mind that something like that was actually perpetuated and allowed to happen by a group of fanatical humans.
DeleteLove MINDY!
ReplyDeleteHahaha she is really great! Her sense of humor is unmatched. Have you read the book?
DeleteI've never tried garlic either, though I have heard it does work wonders. I guess I never wanted to walk around smelling like a vampire apocalypse either, LOL.
ReplyDeleteAs for the hand cream: I'm looking for one myself that will help my bleeding, cracked knuckles. SO gross this time of year!
Have to pick up this Mindy book--thanks for the recommendation :)
Hahaha, well my track record with the raw garlic is proving to be not very successful! Since it seems lately I am fighting off every cold my nanny kids get I am trying to find holistic remedies.
DeleteOh, the winter hands. I don't remember them being this bad last year. I feel like I'm washing my hands constantly, but yet I'm somehow still catching all these germs?!
Have you tried any Watkin's products? My father sold them back when the farming business wasn't all that lucrative, and we always had "Bag Balm" around for every possible use. I didn't care for it myself, but it did moisten the hands. Old farming company, but they are in Birchbox now so I guess they are relevant again :)
ReplyDeleteHi Farin! I actually just heard about this stuff! So I'm going to see if I can find it and give it a try. I had no idea it was actually sold/marketed by farmers to farmers originally. How neat!
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