"Keep It Together!" Funny Movie Scenes

I haven't seen this movie in years.  I put it on Netflix this evening.  These two scenes ticked me.  Ha ha ha!

Parking Garage Scene from "Bowfinger"

Crossing the freeway scene from "Bowfinger"

There's your laughs for today!

Healing Chicken Noodle Soup

Okay... I'm on day 6 of the flu.  I'm still running a fever.  It's the worst week to miss work.  Yay me! But amidst dozing, changing "Sliders" episodes on Netflix, and putting my robe on and off (hot, cold, hot, cold) I've been inspired to blog some.

I was at work the day I started getting sick and since I made this on day 2 of feeling like poo (hey, that rhymes), I didn't put my all into this.  I made it the best I could in hopes of the garlic, onion, and broth would do their thing and make us feel better.

The problem is that after I made this soup, honey and I were too sick to really eat.  We never could get much of this in us.  Maybe a half a cup at a time and honey sometimes passed on it completely.  He's only started eating more the past 2 days.  So although, this should be a healing recipe, it didn't really help us this time because we hardly ate any of it.

Here's the quick homemade recipe with a picture of the final product.  It was my lunch today, but I could only eat about 1/4 of.  But Baby dog got to enjoy a little taste.

I have to admit, this could have looked better too if I hadn't felt so bad.  I got feeling weak part way through shredding the chicken, so it's half chunked, half shredded.  ha ha... also I couldn't stand slicing the onions so I stopped at 2.  I put noodles in it because honey likes the noodles.  I wish now, that I had not even added noodles since he hardly ate any.  I completely forgot celery, but I don't really like cooked celery anyway.  If you forget it, I think they make celery seasoning if you have that.

Healing Chicken Noodle Soup
Ingredients:
1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 cartons low sodium chicken broth (reserve 3/4 of 2nd Carton)
1 package of carrots (I used Bolthouse organic carrot chips) 12 oz.
2 celery bits or seasoning for flavor
1 tbsp of Better than Bullion
Pink Himalayan Salt to taste
pepper to taste
2 large sweet onions or 3 medium
fresh garlic (as much as you can stand)
olive oil
noodles of choice (optional)



Put the chicken breasts in your stock pot and cover with filtered water.  Bring to a boil and reduce heat and cover for about 30 minutes to cook the chicken and create a broth base.

While the chicken cooks, gather the rest of your ingredients, slice your onions as you please and peel and chop about 8 garlic cloves.

Go ahead and throw 4 whole cloves in the pot while the chicken simmers.  Chop the other cloves and put in a small fry pan with olive oil and brown it over medium low heat to bring the flavor out more.

Once the chicken is done, remove from pot, shred, then put back in pot.

Add the rest of your ingredients.

If adding noodles, I added about 4 small hand fulls (my hands are small!).  I still had too many noodles it for us.

Add 1 carton of chicken broth, keep your pot on a simmer temperature, put the lid on it and go take a nap!

In a few hours, your soup will be done and may need a bit more broth and possibly salt and pepper. The noodles soak up the broth and it can hardly look like soup after spending the night in the fridge.  So keep your reserved broth handy.

Enjoy and feel better!

10 MORE Things To Do When You Are STILL Sick

Well, as my loyal 5 readers (I appreciate YOU!) could tell... I have been too sick to even blog!  I love my blog therapy.  It makes me happy... but this "cold" has knocked me for a loop.  Honey had a relapse and although he's still coughing, I think he's finally on the mend (on day 8 for him).

I started a fever again, at work, yesterday and it continued this morning.  As I'm somewhat delirious, I thought I'd try something constructive to re-focus.

So... here are 10 more things to do when you are still sick.

1.  Still drink lots and try to eat
2.  Blog, color, journal (whatever art therapy works)
3.  Give up on the EmergenCs
4.  Continue to take your vitamins
5.  Read, but actually focus on your reading since a few days ago, reading was too hard.
6.  Call in sick
7.  Actually have that Netflix binge that you fell asleep through a few days ago.
8.  Keep enjoying popsicles
9.  Stop complaining out loud
10.  Bombard everyone's facebook feed with positive affirmations.

Bonus:  Try NOT to stress about the housework being even farther behind than it was before you got sick.    (it's worth a shot)

Extra bonus:  Realize you are faaareezing and go make some cocoa and get back in bed!

I said, "Go back to bed!"

hugs to you!

10 Things to do When You Are Sick

10 Things to do when you are sick:

1.  Drink lots
2.  Because you drank lots, get up and tinkle lots
3.  Get your Hay Day farm cleaned up and actually complete a derby task
4.  Read
5.  Try to eat a little and take your vitamins
6.  Enjoy the down time.  Otherwise, you may not have gotten this much needed quiet time.
7.  Have a Netflix binge.
8.  Enjoy Popsicles
9.  Complain
10.  Get off your pity pot and get some rest so you are better tomorrow!
11.  Get caught up on Social Media, because you know how important that is!

Getting caught up on social media

My list of 10 includes 11 items.  You can delete 1 to make it 10.

"Honey, can I get more nyquil?"

What do you do when you are sick?