Thumb of Death

Every spring I am filled with the uncontrollable desire to grow something.  It  has been that way since I was a little girl planting my snapdragon seeds in a small planter outside of our little duplex growing up.  By June I am reminded of why in all these years of planting things I have never actually GROWN anything.  This year I continued the tradition with three packs of "living herbs".  I do love to cook and am always buying fresh herbs so I was delighted to see that Target sells the fresh herbs in their produce section but they still have their roots and can be replanted.  Oh Yes all the work done for me all I have to do is repot in another container.  Oh and keep them from dying! Thats pretty important too.  So I pick the three I use most often, basil,rosemary, and cilantro.  I was most happy about the cilantro since I put it in most of the things I cook.  Haahaha.  So my basil is actually doing allright.  I wont say it looks perfect but I am using it as much as I can, made pizza and caprese salad, among other things.  The rosemary is half...ok three quarters dead but I still am working on the one branch of it left that is somewhat green. Then there is the cilantro.  I know it looks like just a pot of dirt since all of the cilantro dried up and fell off within two days of bringing it home but I know somewhere deep down there are roots in that soil and they will come back to life.  Everyone else in the house believes otherwise.  In this house you are either the butt of someones jokes or you are making them.  There is no room for thin skinned in this family.  Needless to say my black thumb of death is a great source of amusement to my family and everyday when I water my cilantro(is it really a plant or just roots) whatever I hear the snickers and comments.  What is it about the sunshine and fresh air and 70 degree temperatures that causes this delusion in me to flare up.  Just wondering I guess.  I am not admitting defeat yet.  After spending 5 dollars on pots,13 dollars on plant food for herbs, 8 dollars on soil, and 15 dollars on herbs I will get my 40 plus dollars worth of basil and maybe rosemary chicken for dinner tonight.  Oh i love spring.