Wish I liked tea

[livingdeb]

Tea sounds like such a delicious treat to have on a cold day, especially if you're feeling sick. Plus it can come with tasty baked goods! But it's just effluent from boiled leaves, not my thing.

Oh, well, I'll stick to soup and hot water with the occasional hot chocolate.

(Yes, I am so, so lucky to be able to just laze around all day. It makes me very sad how very many people can't do that and they all have my condolences. I'm reading a book set around 1800, where of course slaves would have to work a 12-hour day anyway and maybe also get whipped for not working hard enough. People can really suck!)

Exercise update

Wednesday - I shivered all morning. Doesn't that count? My muscles do ache from that. Then in the afternoon I did another 3-mile jog. I wasn't as distracted as last time, so it was tougher to finish, but I did anyway. I expected my time to be longer than last time (45 minutes) but it turned out to be shorter (41 minutes). Nice!

Thursday - I just walked, and only 8K steps. I was going to try to hold off my rest day until the weekend, but when I squatted to reach the bottom shelf at a store and found out how much I didn't like that, I changed my mind. Also went to bed early; Robin's been sick and my throat felt a hint of soreness that evening.

Today - I can already tell you that I also will have done no exercise today. I have a full-blown cold or maybe a flu. Walking is supposed to be fine, but after walking about 200 steps outside, I turned around and came back in. I was just too cold. It was probably 60 degrees out (and, to be fair, no longer sunny), but I am whimpy about the cold at the best of times. I walked around a little inside but will probably get about 1,000 steps. So, another rest day!

Blog entry of the day - Miser Mom's Christmas Bowling - "Even better [for the second game], since we'd already shunned all pretense of ability, I wielded my power as Matriarch-of-the-X-mas-Bowlers to declare certain special rounds. Round 4 (at the request of I-daughter) was "granny bowling": two hands, between the legs. Round 7 was "bowl with the wrong hand" (my favorite -- so uncomfortable it was funny). Round 9 was dragon bowling." You'll have to read it to find out what dragon bowling is! (Or ask me, if you can't for some reason.)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Awwww... I hope you're feeling better. I actually LOVE tea. I suppose a few things you can try if you want to make it less tea-like would be adding some milk to black tea, or perhaps trying a spiced tea or maybe chai. (I've never actually tried chai since I'm allergic to cardamom, which is a major ingredient - but it looks good!)
:-)
-Cat

[livingdeb]

I do actually like chai, but it's full of sugar. I haven't tried adding milk to tea, but adding it to coffee doesn't make me like the coffee! Still, I might indeed try that sometime!

Thanks for the good wishes! I am feeling better--I had only one pretty bad day, and now it's just sniffles and mild weakness.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if this is cheating or not... but since I'm lactose intolerant, the only milk I can have is the Lactaid kind... either that or homemade Lactaid (buy the enzymes separately and put the drops in regular milk.) Anyhow, I don't drink the stuff straight, mostly I just put it in coffee or tea. But here's the deal, the Lactaid has the lactose broken down, so it tastes sweet... like MUCH sweeter than regular milk. Soooo... I sorta get the effect of sugar in my coffee or tea without actually putting sugar in it. I guess that's not really true since the sugar was in the milk all along... it just was in a for that you couldn't taste it before it was broken down. But still... it lets me enjoy the sweetness while still feeling virtuous because I'm just putting milk and not sugar in my morning beverages!
:-)
Cat

[livingdeb]

Ha ha! Sneaky! (Accidentally sneaky.) So nice when a negative (lactose intolerance) leads to positives!

I might still like tea better with full-lactose milk in it. Still haven't tried it.