"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"

Yesterday, unable to find multi-vitamins, I settled for for a "nutritional malted drink."

"New, improved Ovaltine with the new, unique 'Ovo-Vita' formula helps your children be excellent in studies and grow healthy..."

So actually, it contains more sugar than anything else, but the list of vitamins is impressive and I don't think I've been consuming enough chocolate. As much as I wanted to buy the package that came with free chopsticks (or the package of Milo, a similar product, that came with a free ice cube tray--who doesn't need a new ice cube tray) I have no measuring spoon. So the package with sachets for tearing open and mixing with hot water it is. Lucky me, I remembered that 200cc = 200mL. I didn't realize cubic centimeters were used outside of hospitals and chemistry labs. Huh.

Anyway, I am Ovaltine's newest fan. I even bought a $0.769 (US) mug to drink it out of.

And seriously, the only vitamins in sight contained either purely vitamin-C (in which case I might as well drink orange juice) or calcium. Oh, and there were some tablets of something that looked like vitamins but you needed to bring the card up to the cash register to buy them and they were expensive and maybe they weren't even vitamins after all. Everything else in that section of the aisle were herbal supplements to take after already coming down with a sour throat and children's cough syrup. I forgot to check what flavor the cough syrups were; I wonder if they're as obsessed with awful artificial cherry as the United States.

For the remainder of the day, I tried to force my tired, sluggish, unmotivated self to be productive. And failed. I'm probably already on the path to sneezes and soar throats. Ugh. Come on immune system--fight!

Or negotiate peace treaties.