Northern Exposure. Remember that show? My past week in bed with the flu (still there) has been quite cheerfully endured with the medicinal aid of a marathon bout of Northern Exposure watching, and latterly, as my appetite has returned, with mexican (chilli) hot chocolate.
Grungy 90's fashion notwithstanding, Chris-in-the-mornings loquacious charm has survived the (22-yikes!) years. That said, this time around it's Ed Chigliak's austere bedroom decor rather than Chris's bedroom eyes I've been oogling.
That shade of blue-grey is exactly what i want to repaint my dining room; and with the pretty brass bed and lemon blinds the decors dated far less than the NE fashions, or my taste in telly-men!
Anyway, wimpy bugs and snivelly colds i hate em. But full on, so-sick-i'm-bedridden, that kind of sick i can do. I like the enforced rest. I like the hibernation mode required to endure it, and i see feeling unwell a small price to pay. I look back as fondly on such illnesses as i do holidays, truely! Especially those childhood ones where you had a doting mum bring you tea and bikkies ever half hour. Ahhh, them were the sick days!
The last time i was really ill was 4 years ago. Shingles. Incidentally i came down with it the day after i got back from a work trip to Seattle, where i bunked off a conference day and failed to get myself to Roslyn, the nearby town where Northern Exposure was filmed and where an annual Northern Exposure festival is held (long story).
On that occassion i watched sex and the city in its entirety, having previously ditched it at the point where carrie chose shoes and Big over aiden and a back country cabin (Something about being sick allowed me to suspend the necessary-but-difficult-to-muster disbelief past this silly point).
So, anyway since New Zealand's autumn-like summer is on the cusp of a winter-like autumn i'm changing gear. I'm thinking wool rag rug making; mad men watching ( i've done Downton) and plenty of pumpkin eating; and i'm wondering, what are your winter/illness survival tips?
And what's your favourite chris-in-the-morning quote??
And what did you think of mad men, is there much substance below the 'style'???
