Nothing is worse then waking up in the morning to get ready for work and you feel like hell in a hand-basket. Well, today, that happened to me.

I went to be at a fairly decent time, around 10:45pm, then woke up at 6:45am for work feeling like hell. Both ears plugged, nose/sinus plugged, throbbing headache, coughing, sneezing and body aches (but that would be associated to the gym). Hit snooze, and thought 10 more minutes would suffice. Unfortunately, no, it didn’t help at all.

Normally, I’d suck it up, take some meds and head to work. However, here in Sweden, I don’t have have my “home stock” of goodies. Here, I have just ibuprofen here, mostly for my post-workout aches. Now to make it even harder, I’m at a pretty tight moment for my work with me being the bottleneck, so I want to go into work and get my job done.

Well, due to that I’m not sure how contagious I am, and feeling like I got hit by a MAC truck, I decided to email in saying I won’t be in. I logged into my server, ran some scripts to load data I received overnight, took some ibuprofen then went back to bed, around 7:20am.

Next thing I know is it’s 3:00pm and I’m waking up, feeling pretty rough still. Headache was still kicking around, only my left ear plugged, and nose/sinus plugged. Now, I need food. Good thing last night I made some chicken vegetable soup. Had a bowl of that, then made my way to the Apoteket to get some goodies. Ended up getting a sinus spray which works extremely well!

So here I am, drinking green tea, orange juice, apple juice, and enjoying chicken noodle soup. Hopefully tomorrow is a better day!

Chicken Vegetable Soup Recipe

  • 2 Chicken Breasts
  • 6 Chicken Thighs
  • 6 Large carrots
  • 8 Stalks of celery (with leaves)
  • 1 Medium Onion
  • 2 Tablets of chicken bouillon
  • Water
  1. Season the chicken breasts and thighs, and bake them until cooked.
  2. Clean & peel the carrots and cut them into decent size cubes and put them into the pot.
  3. Clean the celery stalks and chop them into decent size pieces and add them into the pot.
  4. Cut up the celery leaves, minced and add them to the pot.
  5. Cut up the onion (I prefer julian) and add it into the pot.
  6. Add in the 2 tablets of chicken bouillon
  7. Fill with water, so all the veggies are floating and bring to a boil.
  8. By now the chicken should be done. Pull it out, slice it up into pieces and put it into the pot.
  9. Mix regularly until celery is cooked, then take off from heat.
  10. Enjoy!

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