Posted: Apr 10, 08
6:26am
I'm feeling a tiny bit sick. Not throwing up sick or can't get out of bed sick, but I just don't feel like playing rugby today.
When I feel like this, sometimes certain foods make me feel better. There are times when I'd turn down chicken cordon bleu and the opera in favor of grilled cheese, tomato soup and an old black and white movie. This is one of those days.
When my kids felt bad, I used to give them "bear tea" and macaroni and cheese. "Bear tea" is the Celestial Seasonings tea called 'Sleepy time herb tea'. It has a little picture of a bear in a nightshirt on the package and I think that just looking at that picture of the little sleepy bear holding his candle did as much for my kids as the tea itself.
My sister started a tradition of buying up all the tabloids from the supermarket check-out lines and bringing them to me when I felt under the weather. She knew this makes me laugh. There's just something about two headed alien babies being born to celebrity parents and secretly confined in a foot locker for twelve years that just perks up my mood.
Today, I am in need of comfort. If you lived next door to me, what would you bring me...or if you weren't feeling well, what should I bring you?