I don't know about anyone else, but I can safely say that the Humanling can sail through her day with merely a sip of water. In fact, her smile would probably be even brighter if she had none. She likes juice and her almond milk but when it comes to water, she's frugal...you know, doing her part to conserve it on the planet by never drinking it.
I can be just as bad, but then activated in my head is the little Caring Nag voice reminding me that any of my perceived problems are most likely due to the fact that I'm barely drinking water. Even my credit score - lack of water. So I do my best. Well, not really but I'm conscious that carrying around my water bottle doesn't exactly mean that I am on the step of fulfilling the action.
In a quest to get my Ling's blood circulating on a level higher than Sludge, I made up a game. The Polar Express was on twice in a row. I told her that whenever the words "North Pole" were said, we had to swig.
This worked fabulously. After a while though, I knew she'd had enough. I handed her green bottle to her after catching the *North Pole* phrase. She looked down at me (she was on the computer at this point and I was sitting on the floor reading) and said "I disqualify myself from the game."
My calm, strange Capricorn. No yelling, no saying "I QUIT"...just as if she's making a bed with sleepy eyes....decides to tranquilify and disqualify.
But hey, it did work. Next we'll have to do it with High School Musical and the word 'Bolton'.
