Top 5: Cold remedies

The days when you wake up with a soar, itchy throat, an aching body and a head that feels like a balloon filled with cotton, there's not much more to do than wait for it to get over. These are my top 5 cold remedies to make that wait shorter and a bit easier:

Step 1 - Rest
Your body needs a chance to tackle the virus, it can't do that if you keep running around as usual. Forget about work for a little while, you'll get back in the game a lot quicker if you give your body some rest.

Step 2 - Fluids
With a cold, it's more important than ever to drink. My favorite thing since I was a little kid is simple ice water, I always keep a tall glass with me. When my throat is getting the worst blow, I always keep a pot of tea on, that I drink with a lot of honey. My newest favorite is actually chamomile tea with honey. A super cure is to let fresh ginger simmer in hot water with lemon and honey.

Step 3 - Books
I've always been a bookworm, and when I'm sick I've always loved the opportunity to just stay in bed with a good book. The best book for me is Michel Ende's The Neverending Story. I read it the first time when I was 10 and home from school with the flu, plowed through it in one day and it's still one of my all-time favorites. It's also a good time to break out Jane Austen or a well read copy of Wuthering Heights.

Step 4 - Vitamin C
We all know how important vitamin C is for our immune system and thankfully there are such tasty ways to get what you need! Besides freshly pressed orange juice, I love spoiling myself with tons of fruit, preferably tropical fruits. I always buy lots of different kinds and keep beside my place of rest, be it the bed or the couch. Easy to grab, delicious to eat and so many vitamins!

Step 5 - TV
With streaming being a big opportunity, I love spending the time I'm not reading watching historical romantic dramas from BBC. Right now I'm watching Lark Rise To Candleford and just started watching the mini series Middlemarch (from a novel by George Eliot, whose real name actually was Mary Anne Evans). It's a perfect time to dream about a time a couple of 100 years ago, filled with beautiful dresses, magnificent art, great balls and romantic love stories. If I feel really sorry for myself, all three seasons of The House Of Elliot, that tells the story of two sisters in the 20's who start their own design and sewing studio, is the cure.

When I do these things, my cold period doesn't just get over more quickly, I almost wish it would last longer.
How do you do to get over a cold?