Darkoshi

The original chigger bumps are on their way to being gone.
But I've still been getting a few new ones, it seems...
Maybe these are mosquito bites, but I'm not sure.

So on someone's advice,
I patted my body down with vinegar,
let it dry,
and then took a bath.

Sitting in a tub of water
sounds awfully boring to me.

So I lit a candle,
got out a blue glowstick to play with (it floats)
and put on some techno music.

Well, first I cleaned the tub (since sitting in a dirty tub seems icky),
and then I took a pre-shower (since sitting in a tub of dirty water seems icky).
And then I did the vinegar and bath.
And then I did a post-shower

It was different and sort of nice.
Probably about the 3rd bath I've taken in the last decade.
Or maybe the last 2 decades.
Bathtubs were larger when I was a child.

The virus-thing only lasted about 2 and a half days...

Here's a formula for a good-working (from my own experience) cold-fighting remedy, passed on to me by a cool person. Whenever you start feeling like you're getting a cold, take...
3 garlic tablets (1200mg each), and 3 vitamin C tablets (500mg each), and some echinacea (about 500mg, although mine is in drops form and also includes goldenseal).
Do that 3 times a day, for 3 days. (Yes, that's a whole lotta tablets.) Don't do it for more than 3 days because supposedly one's body can build up a tolerance to the echinacea otherwise. I think the garlic is the most important part of it though.