I have a cold. A basic, run-of-the-mill Fall cold. This means I’m tired, have a sore throat when I wake up in the morning, and am feeling sorry for myself.

My co-worker Tim has one too, and so does his girlfriend.

It also means that all I want to eat is cheese. Why is that? You get a cold, and all you crave is stuff that will make you even more congested. Argh!

I’ve managed to keep the dairy to a minimum, though. Last night I ate a spicy Egyptian soup (from the Moosewood cookbook) and stuffed bell peppers; save the mildly cheesy feta sauce served over the pepper, the meal had no dairy at all. I mean, the stuffed peppers and the soup were both dairy-free. The sauce was just a condiment.

Today I have my old Nissan thermos full of Cold & Flu tea – I really need to replace it because it’s all dented and the cup’s broken – and while I did have an AM cup of coffee it was very small.

I like autumn clothes: I’m wearing jeans, a pair of those soled moccasin slip-on shoes all the construction guys love to wear, and a hand-me-down wool Intarsia sweater. So cozy.

Mr. Brett got himself drunk last night, unintentionally, and didn’t feel very good this morning. I fed him a cup of coffee and a fried egg sandwich on marble rye with Swiss. He said it helped. Now he’s up in the barn with Jimbo and Brady building custom cabinets for the new coffee shop going into the Telegroup building. (It’s a branch of the coffee shop in the Broadway building, the name of which escapes me. And I think it’s going in the Telegroup building but I wouldn’t testify on it; it could be going in some other professional building.)

I’m still madly in love with my new PPC. It’s so thin! So cute! Such a great screen! *sigh*

Things I want: a new Nissan thermos, a case for my PocketPC, and a cozy nap.