Week #7

This week, I'm thankful for Valentines Day.



Now that you've all stopped gagging, I'll move on with this.
This was our first married Valentines Day and boy did we do it up right! First, we exchanged gifts in the morning and then Todd surprised me by showing up at my office with a bouquet of roses and a really funny card...he'd taken the day off so that he could do that. Then we had lunch together (just at Qdoba as our dinner was going to be rather extravagant). After I suffered through class with a monster headache, I went home to change and Todd and I made our way to Fossil Trace for dinner. That's right. We had dinner at the same restaurant our reception was at...and it was totally worth it. First off, Jaime, the event coordinator whom I love, called us personally to invite us to dinner there which was a huge bonus. Then on top of that, she remembered that we love old standards (Sinatra, Bennett, etc. ) and they had a guy coming in to sing the standards all night, so that was an even bigger bonus! Dinner, frankly, was everything I'd hoped it would be and more. And I had two glasses of a very delicious Riesling so that was awesome. The singer guy even asked us if we liked Sinatra and Todd and I about fell out of our chairs telling him how much we love Sinatra! And then he took a request and actually knew Todd's fave Sinatra tune that's pretty random and unknown and singer guy serenaded us! So that was awesomeness.

I've only recently come to have an appreciation for Valentines Day. I've never actually HATED the day, but it's not always been my fave. Previously, I have found it to be a bit over-commercialized and forcing us to buy expensive crap for the people we love. But Todd pointed out that if we're going to hat eon Valentines Day for its commercialism, we have to hate on Christmas and Halloween and every other holiday too. Frankly, we spend w-a-y more on misc. crap at Christmas than we do on Valentines Day (which averages $70) and yet we've somehow bent over and resigned ourselves to the fact that we're going to have to spend a buttload on Christmas.

Furthermore, to all of you who get all kind of bent out of shape about Valentines Day and your singleness, I have one thing to say: Don't try to make me miserable just because you are. This is a fun day for me...for us. Todd surprises me with random gifts all the time throughout the year and I appreciate it so much. But Valentines Day is the one day a year where I KNOW, without any doubt, that I'm going to get my dozen roses. It's not that I expect it...it's just something that I look forward to. And I really hope that I never get cynical and bitchy about it either. Yes, it's a lot of money to spend on flowers, but hey...Todd likes to do it and I don't at all mind receiving them. So I'm gonna keep on loving it.

And really, Valentines Day is a whole day devoted to love. I guess I just think that seeing people all around me madly in love isn't such a bad thing. With all the other crap that we have to deal with and hear about every other day, isn't it kind of nice to see everybody loving each other for even just ONE DAY?