Everyone’s had a cold or flu of some sort. But have you ever lost your sense of smell and taste for more than a week? It’s a pretty harrowing experience. Don’t take these senses for granted! Stop! I can see you doing it right now through the computer!

Today is the first day in about a week where I can sort of smell again. I had the cold from hell which was going around the farm, and I’m in my final stages of recovery.

But Sunday, while you were watching the Oscars, I had the horrible experience of THIS

tasting like THIS

and earlier in the day THIS

tasting like THIS

.

Luckily for you fair readers, this horrible nightmare is over. I’m beginning to get some sense of smell and taste back. Because the conclusion that I came to (with my foodie-girl petit poussin) is that, not being able to taste food whatsoever, it was entirely too much work to chew so much but get no enjoyment. And I am incredibly lazy. So if the unthinkable were to happen, and I lost those two senses, I would starve to death. And then what would you do? That’s right. Cry.