A Good Day
March 6, 2010 
I'm not hitting on all cylinders today.
Three days and three sleepless nights in a row of tending to my sick little boy is starting to catch up with me. Last night I sat down in the chair, in front of the t.v., with my laptop. I thought the t.v. was too loud, so I was trying to turn it down... By pressing the volume button on my laptop.
This morning I went to the fridge to get Miss Peaches some yogurt and found myself standing there with the chicken stock in my hand instead.
When I sat down here to write the first sentence, I wrote... I'm not sitting on all cylinders today.
Good thing no one is expecting me to operate any heavy machinery.
I do have the powerful machinery of the internet, however, at my fingers, so I thought it best to just take it easy on the blog posting... Not try to come up with anything too complicated or deep or coherent or inspirational.
You know, like I usually do.
HEY!!!! You better not be laughing at me right now.
(I did, however, manage to write a post about shutter speed (part 2) and the exposure display on your camera, over on the photography page, if you're interested. It's the only thing my brain has successfully processed today. I think.)
So, today... Flowers.
Pretty...
Pretty... Fragrant...
Pretty, fragrant flowers.
Way back, last May, my sisters and I made a little trip to the garden center and picked up some happy little vegetable start-ups. It was good to feel the warm sun. It was good to smell the fresh flowers. But you know what was the best? The best was getting to go somewhere with my sisters.
We had just moved back to MN from CO, and after six years of never getting to just randomly go plant shopping with my sisters, I was back. We were together. It was a good day.
So, today, while I'm feeling a little drowsy and owly and worn down, it is good to think about flowers and sisters and sunshine.
But you know what?
I secretly have one other reason for wanting to imagine flowery fragrance.
Want to know what it is?
There's something stinky going on around here. And it's not the usual kind of stinky. You may be surprised.
My feet are slathered in garlic oil.
Since Little Blue Eyes is sick, I thought I'd do a little online research into natural remedies, and I came across the idea of using fresh garlic as an anti-viral. This isn't surprising... I've read this before. I was taking garlic tablets for awhile, until Mr. Blue Eyes implemented a cease and disist order on that whole thing. Anyhow, I thought, "How would I ever get Little Blue Eyes to eat anything with raw garlic in it?" He's already bucking the system when it comes to taking his medicine, or even a teaspoon of honey. I knew that forcing him to stomach raw garlic would be torturous for us all. That wasn't an option.
Then I read that you can chop up the garlic and let it sit in oil for a half hour, then rub it on the soles of your feet, and it will enter your body that way.
I thought, "Why not? Couldn't hurt."
When you've had a sick, feverish, coughing little boy for three days, you'll do anything to help them get better.
So here we sit, Little Blue Eyes and I, with garlic oil slathered on under our socks. I figured that anything I was going to do to him I had better do to myself too. Maybe it will prevent me from getting this flu bug in the first place... Who knows...
I'll tell you this... It's a little weird, it's a lot stinky, and right now my feet feel tingly and surprisingly cold, even though I've got heavy socks on. I can smell garlic in my nasal passages, but I'm not sure if it's coming up internally or if it's just wafting up from my feet. I've had it on for about an hour and a half, and I think I'm about ready to go hop in the shower.
So, you can see why a post about flowers was appealing to me today.
Here's one more, just to help us all get the image of garlic feet out of our minds...
Oh, what the heck... I'd better throw in one more, just for good measure...
Alright. Time to hit the shower.
Reader Comments (4)
Gorgeous pics, and I've heard that about the properties of garlic too. Had actually been talking about getting some garlic tablets again just an hour ago with my daughter at lunch believe it or not!
Hang in there, and hope you are feeling better quickly.
The flowers make me want to find dirt somewhere.
The thought of garlic wants to make me eat some garlic.............ewwwww.
Your feet and garlic............................
Hope your little guy is feeling better soon. Let us know how the garlic works! You're right, when you have a child who doesn't feel well, you'll try whatever you have at your disposal. Bring on the garlic!
Hope the garlic helped, it kind of reminds me of using vicks for the same thing. When mine run fevers I slather vicks on their feet and wrap them up in warm socks too. :) Hope health has returned.