weekend library raid again

[anotheranon]

Hit the library to put in an ILL for "Uniforms of the British Army, Navy" etc. but despite my existing stack I couldn't stay away from the shelves :P Managed to get a lot of the political books that are always checked out/have a long waiting list:

• Crimes Against Nature by RFK Jr., about the destruction the Bush Administration and others are doing to the environment
  
• Body of Secrets, a history of the NSA
  
• The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, which I've been trying to get hold of for months, but was always checked out
  
• The Life of Thomas More - ok, it's not modern politics, but it sure mattered in the 1520s :P Besides, my dad liked to refer to this guy as "the last honest lawyer" and enjoyed this book, so I figure I'll read it as a tribute to him :/

Still not feeling great. Headache and sore throat seem to have settled in. I'm trying nminusone's recommendation of medicinal use of xylitol, and while it coats the throat nicely I'm not noticing any real improvement.

I'm hoping I don't suffer a mood drop by evening, as has happened for the past couple of Sundays. Honestly, I don't dread Monday mornings that much, I just wish the weekends were longer and that I'd get well to enjoy them (not hitting Air and Space - neither of us really feel like it).

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[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Me? ***HUGE grin*** I'm one of those incredibly annoying (to the sick) people who hardly ever catches anything (the bugs usually just bounce off my immune system ... if the flu is making the rounds, I might have twenty minutes of sniffles) ... I was raised on a good, healthy farm diet and I still would far rather drink a pitcher of orange juice than pop. My Mom just has a long-standing interest in natural, rather than man-made-chemical, remedies, etc. ... a couple of my younger siblings ARE cold-prone and got to be the guinea pigs when they still lived at home.

All I can say about the honey'n'onion mixture is that it worked like MAGIC on my brother the first time my mother tried it (I sampled it ... not bad-tasting, but then I LOVE onions!). Did a quick bit of online research ... according to Holistic Online (which includes the onion and honey remedy) and a few other sites, garlic and onions are excellent antivirals.