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The Cure for What Ails Me

February 18, 2011

Let’s call this a Meatless Monday lunch on a Wednesday, shall we?

I’m battling a bug. First it was a cold. Now it’s aches and a bad stomach. I’ve got a luscious container of leftover pot roast in the fridge, but looking at it somehow makes me feel even more ill.

How can that be?

What I want… What I want… Is…

I don’t know, but I’m hungry.

So I settle on Miso Soup. But I have no tofu. And I have no green onions. So I make do with edamame. And frozen chives.

It’s not the same. But the broth is good.

And when I am putting the chives away, I see my long-lost, frozen eggplant

It’s mild creaminess sounds perfect. So I heat some up to go with my soup

But it doesn’t satisfy like I thought. The char is too bitter for my intolerant taste buds today.

So I did what anyone in my position would do.

I ate half a sleeve of Thin Mints and laid down on the couch to watch Top Chef on YouTube. Suddenly I’m feeling a whole lot better.

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  1. Rachel Wright says

    February 20, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    Try real coca-cola something in its horrible caustic slurry kills what ails ya. (with a squirt of fresh lime it is delicious and addictive. )

  2. Jayne says

    February 25, 2011 at 3:51 pm

    ok Missy…when you told me that I had made your post (sad to say, but I was all excited)! My own little big-time. First of all-I didn’t tattle (oh, I did tattle alot as a child; so, now I vehemently deny tattling). I simply shared the humor. The kitty barrier system is quite clever …but, I would easily have chosen sending them out to the coyotes by now and gotten another chinchilla.

  3. admin says

    March 4, 2011 at 3:04 pm

    ha! you did it Jayne! you commented! I don’t know how come I didn’t see it until now though. I also didn’t know you spelled your name Jayne…
    Really? you’d send them to the wolves? (wolves sounds better than coyotes)

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I’m a mostly-retired, pretend graphics and web developer (but don’t judge my skillz by THIS site!). We sold our dream home in Watertown, MN and downsized to a “Villa” in Excelsior, MN and built a home in our dream location of Eagle, CO and now split our time between the two states. It is truly a dichotomous life of absentee gardening and getting together with friends & family while in MN and playing hard and hermitting while in CO. I’ve let the blog go but a trip to Alaska has me resurrecting the Road Warriors series. My beloved brother is my biggest fan and I am doing this just for him.

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