this summer i discovered something amazing. something life altering, possibly something so amazing to tilt the earth just a tiny bit off of its axis. let me introduce you to the jalepeno cilantro margarita. holy hell there is no other decadence that matches this amazingness.
this summer, apparently this article came out stating that people who hate cilantro it turns out isn't actually their fault. i can't even
read past the headlines because if i were of some other era and someone said they did not like the cilantro, i would say off with their heads, they must be witches, treason, arson, necromancy and any other not right thing. they must be one with the devil if they do not like cilantro. i am pretty sure i wasn't ever even aware of cilantro until 2000 when i went to costa rica and we ate ceviche and homemade salsa daily and then when the dude walked past with the bunch of giant cilantro heaved over his shoulder at a restuarant in jaco and the amazing cilantro amazingness wafted over towards us... not only did that trip save my life but it was the start of my love affaire with cilantro. and not sure how it wasn't until 14 years later that i found these amazing margaritas!! but thank the baby geebuz that i found a man who puts cilantro in EVERYTHING!
what else? i went on a boat cruise from kirkland into seattle. we went through the ballard locks. i have seen the locks but hadnt ever BEEN through them. i think the bottom photo on
THIS PAGE was even taken there a bazillion years ago when i was blonde. anyway, once we were out onto the peuget sound it was beautiful and amazing. i am reminded over and over how amazing and how lucky i am to live in the PacNW.
and then... eric bought a chain saw. omg, he kept talking about it. and granted, we could have used one for a very long time, seeing as back at our old house when we first bought it and we chopped down those horrible giant bushes, and ya know we tied the extension cords around them to guide them as they fell because we didn't have any rope and eric used a sawzall and wow a chain saw would have helped so much then... and then when we had the big giant trees at our house cut down but we had them leave a 7ft stump in anticipation of my college sculpture major friend who had to BUY A CHAIN SAW FOR A CLASS coming to make us a sculpture in the woods only for him to move to south korea and stuff.... anyway, eric finally got his chain saw and he made a chair.
i would like him to burrow a hole right down the middle of that mofo so that we can use it as a fancy toilet our on our property. he is thinking about it.
he also went to town on the rest of the fallen trees and made all kinds of boards and beams and stuff.. i can only imagine what he might make. he DID make a desk a few years back when he borrowed his dad's chain saw. i LOVE the desk and only hope that the kids love it as much as i do and that it becomes a family heirloom someday.
omg, and THEN eric made the margaritas in the
glassy babies and I PUT CILANTRO IN THEM. duh! amazingness happening!! all the time in my very own home!!!!
so, i went into seattle one day. i had a doctor appointment, because that is what i do, so i called up a guy i work with who works at a different company and met up with him for lunch. he works in the smith tower so i got to see THIS:
he took me up to the observation deck, and i saw THIS:
the observation deck has a railing i assume so the peeps dont jump, but i suggested that he go up there every day, position his phone in a new railing space every single day and take a photo. i don't think he has done it yet. i will have to remind him. regardless, it was very cool and having lunch down there in pioneer square reminded me how cool seattle is and how much i miss it. it also reminded me how much i love living on the east side, so it is all very confusing, too.
but one thing to remember -cilantro is king!!
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