Today is a particularly rough Monday for me. I’m going on day two of the worst cold I’ve had in a while. Ugh. I thought spending all day on the couch yesterday catching up on Man Shops Globe and Top Chef would mean I would wake up this morning feeling much better. It didn’t happen. Aside from the extra strong cup of tea I made this morning, I thought I needed a double dose of motivation to get me going.

The first is a little bit of wishful thinking. The cup of tea (with lemon and honey) I’m sipping on right now is delicious. Good enough to solve everything? That remains to be seen. If not, the illustrated message below might be the tough love this cold needs.

What else can you do when you have a mountain of work to tackle? I wish you could all see the sympathetic stare Miles is giving me right now. I think he’s trying to coerce me into going back to bed. If I wasn’t so determined to “just get on with it,” I might take him up on it. Cheers to Monday! *cough* *sneeze* *cough*

*beautiful illustrations via tearriffic and Kristin Nohe