orange day

I’m SOOOO sick. I am all runny, and sniffly…I can’t stop sneezing and my throat feels like I’m swallowing sandpaper. Looks like today is going to be a Vitamin C loaded day…I’m thinking soup in mass quantities.

I actually only had about half this mug because I kept having coughing fits after each sip.

Kyle came home for lunch, yea!! He had some of the vegan stuffing I made for thanksgiving and LOVED it. Success for me! For my lunch I had creamy butternut squash soup.

2 and a half bowls…so good, and perf for my throat.

Yeah, it was that good.

Later I had this mushy pear as a snack. Not so hot.

Instead of going to the gym, I went grocery shopping. I needed get-better-food in a may-ja way. Check out this stocked fridge…it’s a rarity, so I had to take a pic.

That’s one of the not so great things about living in nyc…small apartment = no pantry, no storage room, and a teeny tiny fridge (thus limited options for cooking)

So I gotta embrace days like these (since they are few and far between).

Here’s my second attempt at flushing the cold out of me. Talk about packed with a punch! It’s about as close to a jamba juice as you can get from the store. Plus it was loaded with vitamin c (hence the name). Hope it starts working fast…

You know I’m sick when…

I actually ate 3 tangerines. I feel awful, and it just keeps getting worse and worse as the day goes on. Thank god I have today and tomorrow off from work, because I can barely go 5 minutes without sneezing or hacking up a lung. Not so great a time to be around patients, verdad?

It even looks pretty! For the record, I’m NOT a fan of citrus, in any form. So you KNOW I felt pretty sick to be eating tangerines by choice. Here are my issues: I don’t like how much work it is peeling, and I don’t like how your hands get all gross, and I don’t like having to spit out seeds and pulp. So exhausting!

On the positive side, here’s a gem I discovered at our local whole foods store.

Before I was lactose intolerant, I was a dairy queen…and especially during the holiday season, I just couldn’t get enough egg nog. So you can only imagine how thrilled I was to have discovered this soy version! Now I can enjoy this with way less guilt, since it is dairy free, low fat, and just as mmm mmm good. It’s not as thick, which scared me a bit when I was pouring, but once I tasted it, I was delighted at how similar it tastes to the real thing – AND so I immediately poured myself a second glass full 🙂

At this point I was a little concerned (because of how much orange food I had eaten); I thought maybe I was going to turn into an oompa loompa.

But why fight it? A little tan in the winter never hurt anyone?

So I had more soup for dinner. This stuff was wayyyyy good. I have been making some weird food choices since I’ve been sick. Not being able to breathe/taste/smell has seemingly changed my cravings, because ordinarily this is NOT something I would see on the shelf at the grocery store and decide to buy.

Quite nice though.

I had more soy nog before bed…along with 500 cough drops. Yum?