I LOVE VICKS

The bad news: I have really bad cough and colds.

The good news: I've never sounded sexier. 

(The other bad news: I have no one to talk to sexy to.)

I have been sick since Sunday and on Monday I woke up with no voice.  It was so bad that I had to send this email to my client who I had a concall with that morning:

I left work early on Monday because I felt awful and when I got home, I remembered a forwarded email my mom sent me last year about rubbing the soles of your feet with Vicks Vaporub and then covering them with socks  for cough relief.  I was a little skeptical but hey, if it will help me sleep thought the night, it's probably worth a shot.

Before bed, I drank some Nyquil, rubbed vicks on feet, put on my socks and rubbed some more vicks on my chest and went to bed.  I slept like a baby.  Did it really work? Maybe it was the Nyquil that made me doze off.

So I tried it again last night, sans Nyquil.

I still slept like a bear.  It works, guys.  And I did some googling this morning and it worked for other people, too. Yay for Vicks!

Here are 12 other surprising uses for Vicks Vaporub.

Now, if I could just get better by Friday because I am running in Rip The Road's 3rd leg on Sunday.

Enjoy the rest of the week!

The secret to getting 5 hours of sleep

I can't remember the last time I slept for 5 hours straight. Since the start of the year, I've been taking 2-3 naps a day.

On a normal weekday, my sleeping schedule is:

6am-8am (or whatever time Joaquin wakes up)

10am-12nn (in time for lunch with Joaquin)

2pm-4pm

 

You'd think I'd get enough sleep on weekends, but no. My body clock is so used to being awake at night that even if Joaquin and I sleep at 9pm, I still wake up between 11pm-12mn and I stay up till 5am (so if you're in the village and you wanna stop by and hang out at an ungodly hour, feel free to holler. Hehe!). Huhuhu!

At around 6:30am yesterday, I couldn't sleep. Joaquin was already awake and he was eating breakfast downstairs and I was still tossing and turning in bed. I just could not sleep.

So I decided to go for a run.

I ran for half an hour. It was hot but the sweat felt really good. I binged on persian food the night before and I had to burn all the calories from the kebabs, baba ganoush and ox-brain. When I got home, I showered and watched some TV with Joaquin. I dozed off at 8am.

I woke up to the sound of Joaquin and his yaya arguing. Joaquin wanted to watch more TV and Ate Edith wanted him to go to bed.

"Anong oras na ba, Edith?"

"Ala-una na po, Ate"

It was 1pm. I slept for 5 hours!

Hallelujah! :)