Are you ready?

[Aww this never got published?]

For the best day ever?!!?

Just went on a long hike with my old roommate along dusty trails, past thick bushes hiding bunnies, in front of a grazing deer, under a sky painted in fading majestic colors, over grassy hills like something from a children's fairytale with capes tied around our necks holding jars of fireflies for light to lead the way, along the small pond that was a potential marriage proposal location, outstretched hands brushing skinny yellow stalks as we walked, on the concrete sidewalks, to the car, over freeways to Sprouts leaving with bags filled with summer corn and other produce, down the street to Target, pushing a shopping cart down the Asian aisle to reach the last key ingredient.

Sweet chilli sauce.

You know where this is going right?

We made Jean's corn salsa.

It takes about a day for the flavors to mingle, get comfortable with each other and start absorbing each others tastes. By tomorrow they will be finishing each other's sentences, indistinguishable, one bowl of awesomeness to accompany lime sea salt tortilla chips.

And it will be the best day ever.
(Although, today was pretty great already.)

Rainy Day Solution: Stay In

Today was a cold, rainy day.

The perfect day to stay under your covers and deny the fact that a weekday means driving through rain to go sit in a cubicle.

How to make the most of such a day:

1. Yummy Food

I tried Taqueria El Adobe on Fair Oaks + Old San Francisco. 

$1.50 tacos!

Now I no longer have to track down taco trucks nor wait till midnight for the party people at Club Parranda.

Plus, unlimited chips and salsa.

(Good for my tummy. Not good for my canker.)

2.  Good Reading/Company

I finally picked up a copy of Intellectual Devotional from Half-Priced Books.

Day 1 was the history of the Alphabet.

(Conversation about the history of the alphabet.)

(After 10 minutes reading about the alphabet and tying in our current study on the book of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the statue and the different mighty kingdoms that would arise after Babylon and how the idea of the alphabet was probably passed on to the Romans - Daniel 2. JP and GW would be so proud.)

Me: ... and that was how the Egyptians created with the first alphabet.

JBear: Oh. Well did you know that the pilgrims gave the Native Americans VD?

Me: (O_o) What?

3. Indoor Activities

Today I learned how to curl.

My toes were freezing and felt like they were going to fall off any moment. 

I felt the gallon of salsa in my tummy make waves everytime I lunged. (darn you unlimited salsa bar.)

But... 

I did fall over 3 times.

Get 2 stones in the house.  

And had 1 marvelous night!

 

New knowledge: Each granite stone weigh 42 lbs and costs $500. Curling is a Scottish sport. 

My instructor was Canadian and somehow everything began smelling like maple syrup, eh?

(check out San Jose Curling Club - Intro to Curling Clinics)