Thursday, January 08, 2004
Susan Ginger Soup
Decades ago, when I was a student at a very small and peculiar kung fu school, I picked up a few alternative medicine type remedies, some of which I am still toting today.
We were taught then when you have SEVERE muscle soreness all over (which seemed to happen to us a lot...), a great thing to do was get someone to grate up fresh ginger root for you (since you were probably way too sore to do it yourself) and dump it and you into a nice hot bath. And if at all possible, your grating friend might wait around to be sure you were able to activate your nicely jellied muscles and crawl out of the tub when you felt done.
I got out of the habit of the ginger (though I remained a big fan of hot baths/tubs) because it was haarrrrddd. But then one day I discovered you can BUY fresh-in-a-jar pureed ginger at the Wal-mart! So I am now sitting here typing, very relaxed, very ginger-y smelling, a bit damp but feeling about 57 times better than I did an hour and a half ago.
See, I don't know if I mentioned it, but I ended up selling 90 things out of that 191 I listed on the big marathon eBay Free Listing Day. Which is way cool, but I have been driving myself until I staggered trying to get the things shipped. (People are so silly about wanting to receive the items they paid for!) At this point I think about half have gone out, and I have about 10 paid for things to ship tomorrow. So the crest of the wave has passed, yet I have not passed on. Which is cool.
But I am not at all displeased that after tomorrow I can do something ENTIRELY DIFFERENT over the weekend, sans guilt.
Which MIGHT include another batch of Susan Ginger Soup. Because I still have a whole unopened jar, and I'm not afraid to use it!
We were taught then when you have SEVERE muscle soreness all over (which seemed to happen to us a lot...), a great thing to do was get someone to grate up fresh ginger root for you (since you were probably way too sore to do it yourself) and dump it and you into a nice hot bath. And if at all possible, your grating friend might wait around to be sure you were able to activate your nicely jellied muscles and crawl out of the tub when you felt done.
I got out of the habit of the ginger (though I remained a big fan of hot baths/tubs) because it was haarrrrddd. But then one day I discovered you can BUY fresh-in-a-jar pureed ginger at the Wal-mart! So I am now sitting here typing, very relaxed, very ginger-y smelling, a bit damp but feeling about 57 times better than I did an hour and a half ago.
See, I don't know if I mentioned it, but I ended up selling 90 things out of that 191 I listed on the big marathon eBay Free Listing Day. Which is way cool, but I have been driving myself until I staggered trying to get the things shipped. (People are so silly about wanting to receive the items they paid for!) At this point I think about half have gone out, and I have about 10 paid for things to ship tomorrow. So the crest of the wave has passed, yet I have not passed on. Which is cool.
But I am not at all displeased that after tomorrow I can do something ENTIRELY DIFFERENT over the weekend, sans guilt.
Which MIGHT include another batch of Susan Ginger Soup. Because I still have a whole unopened jar, and I'm not afraid to use it!
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