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doc and i have been married officially for six years, as of yesterday. and together for ten. wow. ususally, it doesn’t feel like it’s that long. i usually don’t even think about the length of time we’ve been together. i guess that is probably a good thing, that it means our marriage and our relationship is working well.
not that that surprises me. š
it does make me sad to think that a number of our friends have not fared so well lately. i know how lucky i am.
doc is sick with some sort of icky cold. he woke up this morning and could only croak out words. i got him some nyquil and orange juice. right now i’m making a big pot of soup from chicken broth, leftover turkey, carrots, celery, and garlic. it smells great.
hmmm. i’m flipping through a neighborhood coupon mailer and see an ad for garage door repairpeople, “the spring replacement specialists.” and that’s what is broken on our garage door. maybe i should call them. they’re specialists! i’m pretty sure we can’t repair a garage door on our own. in fact, we can’t even lift it and have been parking in the driveway for a few weeks.
it broke as i was at work, on the phone with doc. i heard the crash sound over the phone. he walked out into the garage, saw the broken metal cord, and walked around to the front of the house, after saying that he thought maybe someone had tried to break in through the garage door. and then… the phone went dead. i couldn’t get him back on the line. i was on the verge of calling 911 when he called me back. he’d gone too far away from the phone’s base station.
Wait one minute. First, celery is nasty. Now, celery smells yummy. Which is it? And if it’s the former, why is celery in your soup? And if it’s the latter, why can’t I have my steak seasoning?
These are questions that have to be answered.
ahh… i see why you were confused. chicken soup (or turkey, in this case) is the one instance i can think of where celery belongs (see my previous post about celery salt to confirm this). in soup, celery loses all its nasty celerylike flavor, as well as its dentalfloss-esque texture. it’s basically just another vegetable.
now why, if it’s just another vegetable taking up valuable soup space, is it deemed necessary? well… it probably isn’t. i guess it’s just traditional to include it. or maybe it does actually impart some very necessary, though decidedly non-raw-celery-flavored essence to the soup.
all i know is, chicken soup (especially the homemade kind) DOES make you feel better when you’re sick, and i’m afraid to exclude celery for fear that it may actually be the Magical Virus-Fighting Ingredient.
not to mention, doc actually likes celery in all its various forms, and as the cold-afflicted person in question, i thought it well to include it in the soup.
i do scrub my hands and the cutting boards extra-fastidiously after chopping celery, though, to get off all the offending smell. š
I’m with doc on this one, celery rocks in all its forms. It’s good with cream cheese, peanut butter, in soups, as a cat whacker, as a halloween treat (ok maybe not that last one.) Celery is all about the crunch really, like granola in yogurt.
And I bet it IS the Magical Virus-Fighting Ingredient which would explain why I never ever get sick. š Even when your husband infects my wife. With his cold. Virus.
Man that sounds weird but I’m way too lazy to delete it.
oh no, you are one of those guys that gives out “treats” like apples and raisins and pennies (and, i guess, celery) on halloween, aren’t you??!
and i’m not sure when this alleged “infecting” was going on, but since we haven’t seen your wife since last tuesday and doc did not get ill until sunday, i think we can safely say that we don’t know whom passed said Virus to whom, or when. š
also, i think that if you stuff celery into your ears and down your pants, it adds even MORE virus-fighting power to your life.
Is THIS why Brett had celery in his ears last night? I just thought he was tired of hearing me blow my nose.