Day One Hundred Eighty-Eight - Cinco De Mayo

Despite my best efforts Cinco de Mayo hasn't really "happened" in my neck of the woods. It's a shame because I like it more than St. Patrick's Day. Sure, that holiday has its green beer and that's all very well and good, but tequila wins out every time. Also, better food is associated with Cinco de Mayo - even though I always make tacos, which is a lot more Tex than Mex. Also, I would suspect that Canada's general lack of Mexican immigrants kind of holds us back [though I do live near where apparently Little Mexico is, but the only time one sees evidence of this is during the World Cup - otherwise it's all Portugal, all the time]. Lou Dobbs would love it here.

As mentioned, I dig tequila. A lot. She was my not-so-secret mistress for many a-year...I guess until I started drinking beer when I was about 20 years old [and then I got fat...interesting - beer is officially on notice]. It was my go-to drink because I could be imbibed right out of the bottle [like beer or wine which everyone else liked and I did not]. I've never had one of those epically bad tequila experiences that my mum warned me about - yknow - the one that makes you swear off it forever [until the next time someone offers you a margarita that is]. Tonight I tried tequila in a time-honoured fashion - I did the lick the salt, shoot the tequila, suck the lemon thing. To the best of my knowledge I have never done this [though I admit that it's entirely possible that I have while otherwise intoxicated]. The thing is - while we liked to drink in high school and university we were rarely organized enough to have cups/glasses [hence drinking things from bottles/without mix], let alone salt, limes and shot glasses. Though one time my friend Ian stole a salt shaker from our local pub by putting it in my handbag...my handbag then suffered a catastrophic breakdown in the Eaton Centre, leaving a trail of salt for quite a ways.

Until tonight I had not had a drink in a very long time [I sound like a recovering alcoholic] - possibly over a month. I'm surprised it didn't knock me out. But of course, tequila will always be my friend.