3.11.2009

Ode to a taco truck


















I've always been slightly culinary-obsessed. Holly, I blame my mother for this too. Hence, I am always, always on the search for the perfect something- the perfect mac and cheese (hello Beecher's in the Market), the perfect latte (actually not in Seattle but Full City in Eugene- just 9 day until I get one. It's a good thing my parent's don't know this is the only reason I go visit. Oh wait, they read this blog.... I love you too?) and capping off the longest sentence in the world, the perfect taco.

And peps, I'm very serious about my tacos. I am in a perpetual state of searching for the best Mexican food in the city and I'm hardly ever satisfied (Carta de Oaxaca in Ballard comes close for the real deal). I am a Mexican food junkie, in fact one of the reasons I knew the hubby was the real deal was I found out he could eat Mexican as often as I can and loved it just as much, and I thought, okay I could spend my life with this guy.

But I digress from my point which is HOLY MOLE I just had an awesome taco. (Yeh, I feel the need to share. Again, culinary obsessed.) We have a taco truck down the street from work which in industrial SODO is my saving grace on crazy busy days and I trotted down this afternoon to get my normal veggie burrito. I ordered (perhaps another reason for my ode is that the nice gentleman charge me $1 less because I am one of the "regulars"), grabbed the bag and headed back to work. When I got back to my desk, I didn't have a burrito but 4 carnita tacos with onions and cilantro. Boy howdy, I thought I had died and gone to heaven after the first bite.

I probably have the worst breath ever from the onions and I feel like I ought to warn co-workers before they come by my desk so they don't faint from the stink, but man was that worth it. That was like pork-and-cilantro-induced-utopia, unbutton-your-now-too-tight-pants-afterwards good.

Taco truck, how I love thee.

3.09.2009

When all else fails, you can always talk about the weather...

Okay, I don't want sound like a Grumpy Gus, but dudes its March 9th and its snowing AGAIN! I don't know when I've ever wanted spring so badly, in fact I want it so much that I wore a short-sleeve shirt today (the whole wishful thinking and all) with my skirt and tights and now I am freezing my ass off watching it snow out the window. Big gargantuan sigh.

In other, less icy news, I don't believe I have shared a little tidbit with y'all and it may explain why I've gone missing the last few weeks: I got a promotion at work and am now the Assistant Editor for this little magazine I've grown to so dearly love. It's taken me two weeks to come down from cloud 9 (at least there wasn't any snow up there, sheesh) Anyways, I'm busier than I have ever been at work, but couldn't be happier about it. Like all good things, it happened in the oddest way, and I can only say God had a hand in it. (If you want to the full scoop, I'll tell you over coffee, it's a long one.)

Happy Monday and here's to wishful thoughts about skirts, sun and editing paradise,
K