I am fighting vigorously against the onset of a cold today. I’ve downed some daytime cold medicine, and I’ve been sucking on throat drops all day. I even went out and bought as much vitamin C drinks as I could – orange juice, V8 Splash, Hi-C. It seems to be working, because my cold is already less severe than it was yesterday. But I’ve still been blowing my nose all day long.

Some fun facts about blowing my nose:

The other night, I headed over to Radermacher’s to stock up on cold- and flu-related food items in order to stave off the germ onslaught already occurring in my body.