Frank Sinatra

Happy Valentine's Day!

So...to all those that don't have Valentine's this year- let me say this; I always thought it was a bullshit non-holiday.

I thought it was a Hallmark holiday.

I hated it. With a passion. I particularly hated when women in my office got flowers from significant others. I mean, really? Thought it was so dumb.

Well, not anymore. Look, I know I'm lucky. DF makes me feel special and beautiful everyday. He doesn't need a "lame Hallmark holiday" to make me feel loved. He does it anyways.

But, let's be honest. I have a vagina, therefore, I wanted to do something for Valentine's Day. I actually asked for a labelmaker. How romantic.

Anyways, DF went to work early, kissed me goodbye. It seemed like an uneventful February 14th.

We BlackBerry messengered throughout the day. Normal stuff. I knew DF was going to make supper.

Work was stressful but not terrible.

So...I pull in my garage (yes, I have a garage now!) and I walk into the kitchen.

This is what I hear: Frank Sinatra. And my DF. Who promptly walks over to me and kisses me and dances with me in the middle of the kitchen.

Then I see that he's set the table, and there is a single red long stem rose and a heart shaped box of chocolates and a new pink candle.

Proof:

Sigh. DF rocks.

Best Valentine's Day EVER. 

So, to all the single ladies, keep the faith. Because halfway though dinner, I asked DF if this (us, our relationship, love) if THIS is what people were talking about.

He smiled and said it was. I never doubt him. 

Don't forget to vote! And Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentines

Hey loves, I did something cheeseball-riffc this year. I got Valentines for some of my friends!

TJMaxx baby!

Vintage Love

We've all kissed a lot of frogs.

Plus- Tinyprints.com came to the rescue again and I scored the cutest return address labels!

Love LOVE!

Plus, I found cute wrapping paper at the dollar spot at LeTarjay:

For my favorite 5 year old in Seattle.

I felt like Beyonce writing to all my single ladies! Plus- yesterday and today tinyprints.com has 99 cent Valentines! So I sent a couple using the checkout code LUV99. 

As for the snail mail: the ended up looking like this:

Missing my ladies. XOXO. 

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Sprayed & Targeted

Well, DF had his training yesterday for his new job. He is handling the security for all the MLB spring training. He has been assigned to the Pittsburgh Pirates which doesn't excite me at all. If we were talking Red Sox, we'd be in business.

Part of his training included getting maced with pepper spray. Well, no, that's wrong. He got sprayed with O.C. spray. Which stand for"Oleoresin Capsicum." Which is a fancy way to say, "holy shit that stuff burns my corneas out."

It sucks big time.

So, now, every time I kiss DF, I get a tiny little but of pepper spray in and around my mouth and it's like sucking on a Hot Tamale. Not fun.

Moving on. DF finished up his first day of work today and he took me to dinner at our favorite mexican place to make up for Friday night's debacle. We sat in "our" booth and I had too much tequila. Happy me.

We had to do a leTarget run after dinner to get new socks for DF. (I call it leTarget which basically sounds like LayTarjay when I say it out loud.) While at leTarget, I found this super cute garland to start my Valentine's Day decorating...

Notice the price? Two bucks!

So DF lets me throw them in our cart. We got home and I immediately put it together. He shakes his head and asks me not to hang it on the headboard. I smile politely. As I assemble it, I realize it's a lot trickier than I thought to get the suckers to lay flat. After mastering the little foam bastards, I hung it from our headboard (much to DF's chagrin) and it looks like this:

Love!

I mean, not handmade, not super expensive, but adorbs, right?

And I had four random hearts left over, so I put them on top of the Pottery Barn mirror...

Festive!

I also got this little baskets at the dollar spot:

I got strawberry colors.

And they were ONE BUCK. Gosh...I friggin' love LeTarget. I'm going to organize all the crap under the bathroom sink. It's a mess.

Well, I've got some fun projects for Val's day in store. Stay tuned.

I'm going to go get a chili burn and give DF a kiss goodnight. XOXO.

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