My friend Karen over at FriendsFavz is starting a meme called One New Thing. She’s challenging herself to try or do One New Thing each week and blog about it on Tuesday. I’m going to join her. If you saw my post the other day about creativity, you’ll know why. She’s going to have a blog button made so we can grab the code and post it on our blogs. It doesn’t have to be a momentously big new thing either, just something new to you. I hope you’ll join us and get inspired to do One New Thing a week too.

My One New Thing this week was trying out a new-to-me restaurant in Kirkland called Cactus. Their fresh Southwest/Mexican food is delicious. The salsa was chunky, spicy and loaded with cilantro, which I love. My chop chop salad also had fresh cilantro, so I was in heaven. The menu has a lot of variety and, if it had been later in the day, I’d have tried one of their fabulous sounding cocktails. The wait staff was friendly and helpful, and the decor was tastefully festive. Because we were first-timers, the manager brought their rich and creamy caramel flan for dessert on the house. It was the perfect ending to a wonderful lunch. I’ll definitely be going back.

I’m super excited about my post next week, as I’ve got something planned for Thursday night that I’ve never done before.

What One New Thing have you done this week? Feel free to tell me in comments or blog about it and post the link in the comments.