[This lovely Valentine's bouquet is compliments of my daddy-o and my sweetheart. You'll learn about its origin in just a bit.]
I'd planned on doing a fairly thorough post about Valentine's Day (aka: my fourth or fifth favorite holiday or something) the day after it ended, and then two days after it ended, and then you know those times when you're employed as a writer and after hours upon days of doing your job you just want to step away from the words? That's me right now. But instead of putting the post off until 2011, I've decided to give you a quick and dirty break down of the weekend activities.
On Friday I...
- Built a snowman with my mom and dressed it up as both my brother and my Valentine.
- Made snow cream. Yum!
- Drove my dad to Costco so he could buy four dozen roses for my mom. Thirty red for the years they've been married + six white for the years they dated = six red and six white left over for yours truly.
- Arranged said roses in vases. HO BOY do I suck at that job.
- Welcomed my sweetie home from work at 7:00 only to learn that he had about four more hours of work ahead of him. Yuck.
- Drove all over
On Saturday I...
- Lifted my head off the pillow just long enough to mumble "good-bye" to my sweetie as he left for work at 5:30AM.
- Visited Tom Thumb (it may be on my bad list, but that doesn't make it any less conveniently located) five hours later to shop for ingredients for lunches for Sean + ingredients for dinners for both of us.
- Cooked lunches for Sean while working on, well, work.
- Welcomed Sean home from work at 7:00PM and received a beautiful bunch of baby blue hydrangeas. "You kept talking about how much you like them," said Sean, "so I figured that was a hint or something." The man is good!
- Didn't have a vase for my hydrangeas and I didn't want to plop them in an oversized cup that my parents got from Texas Stadium and passed down to Sean, so I got creative and stuffed them in with the roses I got from dad. (When I say "stuffed" I am referring to my ineptitude at arranging flowers and not at all trying to indicate any negative feelings about my bouquet, which is in fact the only bouquet that I have ever endeavored to keep alive. I'm failing, of course, but I'm doing so with a lot of extra elbow grease.)
- Watched Good Will Hunting for the first time in like, 10 years. (Hint: It's WAAAAAY better when you're 23.)
On Valentine's Day I...
- Woke up too early for Sean's taste.
- Made breakfast for us to share.
- Tried to catch the 2:20 showing of Valentine's Day but missed it because I am a slow dresser. Tried to catch the 4:00 showing of Valentine's Day but missed it because the ticket lady said it was sold out. (Not so, said the board behind the ticket counter. Lame.) Bought tickets to the 5:20 showing.
- Wandered the mall waiting for show time and SURPRISE! Managed to save all of my money excepting the one dollar I spent on a drink at Sonic.
- Didn't breech the subject of how inane the movie was until we were almost at the car. I certainly did not like it, but I don't feel strongly enough about it to say that I hated it. It's like this--if you regularly spend $10 to take a nap, then by all means, see Valentine's Day. If you prefer to nap for free, don't see Valentine's Day ever. Not even when it comes to a Redbox near you.
- Returned home to chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream and some pretty interesting show about human love (and some pretty nutty show about human sexual disorders. Weird.)
So yeah, I guess the actual quick and dirty version is this: More or less uneventful because my poor Valentine had to work through 2/3 of it. No matter though, because it just so happens that chick flicks (even truly awful ones), chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, and hydrangeas! are the keys to my heart. The end.
1 comments:
okay, your random "love" shows you watched reminded me of a show that was on BBC not too terribly long ago about people who are objectosexuals- meaning they believe they have intimate relationships with objects (a bow. the eiffel tower. the berlin wall. an iron....) weeeeeird.
sounds like your weekend was sweet, and i'm glad you said what you did about the movie- wasn't planning on seeing it in theaters, but surely won't break myself trying to catch it on dvd.
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