From Sickness to Health

When Life Gives You A Cold, It Sucks. 

I hate getting sick. It really sucks no matter if you have a little cold or the full blown flu. Your head pounds, you can't breathe, your throat hurts, you're freezing, you're too hot, etc. You just feel like death, then you take a bunch of medicine, and you get over it and feel good as new again. At least until the next time you get sick.

I've come to realize that every time I get sick, I kind of have an established routine for how I try to make myself better. Besides taking medicine (only when I really need it), I have a few essentials that I swear help me get well again. But I'm no doctor, so warning: it's probably just all a placebo effect.

1. Wearing comfy lounging clothes.

Nobody likes dressing up when they're sick. I pick my outfits everyday based on my mood in the mornings. So when I'm feeling sick (or just lazy), all I want to wear are fuzzy socks, leggings, yoga pants, sweats, and T-shirts. I just wanna feel warm and cozy. I don't have the energy to put on real pants or cute shirts. Being sick makes you feel gross, so wearing comfy clothes helps you feel a tiny bit better because you feel cozy and protected.

2. Water overdose.

I drink a ton of water on the daily, but when I'm sick, I drink a whole lot more because I think it helps "flush" out all the bad stuff in my body. Sometimes I feel like I'm a fish out of water--I literally feel like I'm drying out and getting dehydrated when I don't have anything to drink even for half an hour. I literally need the hydration or I feel like I'm dying in the Sahara Desert. When I'm sick, its a constant cycle of feeling dry, drinking water, going to pee, then feeling dry again. It just never ends.

3. Green Tea.

Besides water, I also like to drink a lot of green tea when I'm sick. If I don't have green tea, any other tea works too, but mostly it's the green. I'll drink it iced or hot, and I'll drink it all day long. It helps to sooth my throat when it sore or scratchy. I also like to think it has some ancient magical tea powers in it that's working to make me feel better.

4. Bananas.

I eat a banana pretty much every day. When I'm sick, I eat more than one banana. It's mostly just because I feel like fruit is healthy and eating healthy things when you're sick will help you get better. And since there are always bananas in my house (because they're my favorite), I end up eating them since they're right there. I probably eat 10x more bananas than any other fruit. And sometimes when there's a lot of fruit in the house, I'll blend it all up in to a jumbo smoothie. Because I also love smoothies. And fruit is good for you. And when you're sick, sometimes you're too tired to chew, so drinking a smoothie is perfect.

5. Watching Jimmy Fallon Videos on Youtube.

I don't know why, but binge-watching Jimmy Fallon clips on Youtube works miracles. I love watching them and they make always me laugh. Like they say, laughter is the best medicine right? So watching funny things is good for you when you're sick (and even when you're not sick). It's like you're laughing out all of the germs inside you.

So, those are basically the 5 things that I always do when I'm sick. There may or may not be actual science behind them, and they may or may not even actually work. But, if all of these fail, then there's always the final option of just getting someone I know sick. Because everyone knows that once you pass along the sickness, you suddenly make a full recovery. Weird.

Friday Favorite | The Fault In Our Stars

Can Someone Pass Me More Tissues Please?

This week I watched The Fault In Our Stars with Sydney. After reading the book and crying over just about the whole thing, I was really really really excited to see this movie. There were a few failed attempts to see it, but finally we did it. And it was beyond worth the wait. 

Hands down, this is one of my new favorite movies. Me & Syd can't wait to get it on DVD and watch it over and over surrounded by ice cream and tissues. Here's why.

1. I really love the book. John Green is a fantastic author. He knows how to suck you into reading a book from start to finish, without stopping to go eat or pee. I fell in love with Augustus Waters and Sydney fell in love with Ansel Elgort. My summer goal: read all of John Green's books, even though Sydney tells me that Looking For Alaska has a scene that's a little risqué or something. But that's alright.

2. Usually when books are made into movies, some important parts are changed or left out, which makes the movies a little disappointing. I was a little scared that this movie would be the same way. But...it wasn't, yay! I mean, some things were changed or left out of the movie, but not too much to make me not like it. I seriously loved everything in the movie and can now die happy after watching it. 

3. It made me cry like a baby. In a really good way. We brought a ton of tissues with us, and I ended up using most of them, but I was nice and let Sydney use 3 of them haha. I love when movies have that one really emotional scene that gives you the feels. This movie had like 50 because I cried throughout the whole thing. Sydney got annoyed because I kept sniffling, even in the parts that weren't sad. But Sydney sniffled and cried a bunch in this movie too, so she shouldn't be complaining. 

4. Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort are gooooood. Like really really good. And really good together. I hate when two characters have zero chemistry together and they ruin the whole movie. But these two are so perfect as Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters. And Ansel Elgort is really cute too (Sydney agrees x10000000). 

5. Last but not least, this one quote.

"But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within he numbered days, and I'm grateful." 

Serious feels. I love that quote. Seriously, who didn't cry when this part came up?? Because if you didn't cry, you have no soul. And no heart.

So now after reading the book and watching the movie, I can say without a doubt, that I love The Fault In Our Stars and everything about it. I love it so much that I would even go out and get a tattoo that is related to it in some shape or form. And that is saying a whole lot since I am so afraid of needles. But I really do want a tattoo, so I would so do it. That's true love right there.