This morning, I (mistakenly) went into the NEDA office to volunteer, but I was visibly sick. One woman with whom I work told me that when she gets sick (mind you, she is very much into holisitic remedies and homeopathic medicine, so popping a pill is not her style), she makes this drink that clears up all of her symptoms in about 20 hours. Not bad, I thought. So get this: She said that she mixes together an onion, a clove of garlic, cayenne pepper, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, ginger powder, honey, and hot water all into a blender and makes a hot drink. Apparently, this drink will kill all the germs inside of me and the ginger/honey combo will temper the other rather powerful "curing agents". She told me to add ingredients to taste (uh...okay) and make sure I'm not planning on making out with anyone afterwards because the garlic can get pretty strong. Oh boy.
So that's exactly what I did: I mixed all these ingredients into our blender and my measurements amazingly made just enough to fit in my wonderful blue Starbucks mug. (I thought it might taste better in that instead of the ordinary old ceramic mug, but I think it just provided a smaller opening for the putrid smell to be emitted into the air.) After apprehensively pouring the unknown mixture into the mug, I wondered what my fate would be for the remainder of the night and into the morning...would I lose my lunch (soup, unfortunately) and vomit my first sip all over the items on the freshly polished coffee table? Would I miraculously be cured of all my ailments only to discover that my breath would permenantly reek of garlic? Would I wither and die while hearing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" being sung by a quaint group of carolers who had stopped by to shower us with their magnificent voices?
Well, maybe a bit outlandish...and needless to say, I'm still here, though steadily continuing on the path towards delirium. Take a look at my drink below (duh, I had to take a picture...I take pictures of all food/drink related items - so much so that Bonnie now thinks my food-picture-taking is related to my "food issues"...in her words, "Don't you think your taking pictures of food is related to your issues with food?"...uh, yeah Bonnie, and you still don't know that I have a blog...):
Water is in the left mug, weird-germ-killing-ill-tasting-concoction in the other mug. It didn't taste that bad at first, but then I felt like I was on an all cabbage soup diet or something like that when you have to plug your nose to drink the necessary evil. Either that or I was on Fear Factor and I was drinking some kind of insect ale or something. Gross. Well, despite the taste and vomit-factor, I finished half of the mug. Yep, that's right. So, if it really DOES kill all germs (as opposed to ME), then technically, I should be feeling good by tomorrow night! Yippee hooray, away with this sore throat!
In other news, I am just one big lump of germ. I have sneezed so many times tonight that if I had a dollar for everytime I wound up and achooed, I'd be Donald Trump by now. Or some powerful, rich woman by the same standard. I literally have boogers all over my sleeves from sneezing into them...as if you haven't been grossed out enough tonight, right? Sorry for that visual, I am just a little mess in a corner of Seattle.
Take pity on me and send your luck that I don't get resick tomorrow from my remedy drink.
1 comment:
Lots of people have blogs, but few take as many pictures of food as you do. Maybe Bonnie has a point.
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