How to Make Sinus Saving Soup

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Sorry… this is part of the reason. Or rather, this is the latest in a series of misfortunes that’s been going on since October, and which I’m getting thoroughly sick of. Not sure when I’ll be able to get back to writing regularly on the Interactive Novel (hopefully soon!), but in the meantime I’m considering posting a novel I wrote a few years back for some feedback. Anyone interested?

How to make Sinus Saving Soup:

Step 1 (optional, and heartily discouraged if at all avoided): Get a sinus infection.

Step 2: Realize that, despite your body’s preference for sleeping all day, you really do need to eat at some point. Stumble into kitchen and root through freezer for something that might become edible.

Step 3: Put on a pot of northern beans to boil. Pull out random ziploc bags of undetermined stock from some point in the past 18 months and realize you can’t get them into the pot while they’re frozen. Leave on counter to defrost and go lie down, exhausted.

Step 4: Wake up 3 hours later to realize that the beans have boiled a bit too long, and that one of the bags of stock had a hole and is now all over the kitchen counter. Curse for a bit, then toss beans and assorted liquids together and wipe up the spilled stock.

Step 5: Root around in freezer again and come up with a bag of cut squash and onions that (you think) is from this summer. Also, there’s a carrot in the fridge. Decide to grate it, because it will cook faster that way.

Step 6: (optional, and once again heartily discouraged) Accidentally grate knuckles while attempting to grate carrot. Curse, jump up and down, race for first aid kit, get blood in food, etc.

Step 7: Toss remaining carrot to dog. Let all ingredients boil for a bit, then randomly add some salt, parsley and basil. Because what doesn’t taste good without salt, parsley and basil?

Step 8: Ladle yourself a cup of Sinus Saving Soup, and sprawl on the couch breathing in the steam and wishing you had the energy to sit upright and actually eat the stuff.