getting healthier and hydrating with tea

So, I have a cold. I hate it. I am so careful about germs (read: borderline germaphobe - okay full fledged really - but try loving clean and working in New York City), but something got through. It is only the sniffles, but I still hate it. I have been drinking a ton of tea & water, sleeping ten hours a night, and using a neti pot. I really dislike neti pots too, but they work...so I suffer through the uncomfortableness of water going up one nostril and coming out the other - so weird! 

The one thing that makes me the happiest when I'm sick is tea. We grew up drinking Celestial Seasonings Lemon Zinger when we were ill and when I drink it, it feels like home. (We also used to drink ginger ale with the bubbles stirred out, but that was just plain gross and I tried to block it from my memory.) I don't drink lemon zinger unless I am sick because it doesn't taste as good, or feel as healing. I can't wait to have a big cup of it tonight with my dinner. Bring on the health!