Thursday, March 26, 2009

to make my mother happy


The Joys of Lemon and Honey:

I've been sick for the past week and a half ish and it's (obviously) no fun. I'm generally pretty healthy, so when I get sick, I get really sick. Naturally I'm sick when I have a huge amount of work do and I can't really focus well on it, naturally. Instead of lying in bed and watching movies, I'm photoshopping my pictures that I stupidly took with a flash and writing about death, love, and sex, and how they're all connected. Fun fun. I've been trying to be all healthy--got a roast chicken from Safeway, been eating my veggies, drinking til I squish, etc, so I thought I would share a little something about the wonderfulness of lemon and honey. This is a very simple drink to make: squeeze at least one lemon into a mug, boil some water, pour in the water, add honey to taste. Yay! Ideally you want to use pure honey with no other stuff in it, which I have, thanks to my lovely summer job last year. You know what's cool about honey? It doesn't go bad! Ever!! AND it can help with allergies. You get some local honey and take a spoonful a day and it gets all the pollens you're allergic to into your body to immunize you. Honey is also cool because it helps heal your sore throat while coating it, it's sweet (never bad), you can put it on greek yogurt which is delicious, you can eat it plain, and you can cook with it. I'm a fan. Plus you can ferment it and make mead. So much variety! Anyway, I'm drinking that and now getting back to work (and maybe watching CSI).