For some reason, it's only the third week and I'm already having trouble coming up with new things to do. I only get two days a week off and most of that spare time is spent trying to catch up on homework and reading assignments because work has been sucking up a majority of my time. On top of that, my need for sleep is overwhelming and I cave in very easily whenever I get the spare second to crash for a quick nap (even though those 'quick naps' always turn into a two hour long coma). Enough with the excuses, though.
Unfortunately, I didn't really get the chance to do anything crazy since my last post where I went on my Ikea trip. I did, however, have a really great Valentines Day which I think maybe I should share as my back-up plan for this week. My original post was going to be a video of myself giving my cat, Lily, a bath. As you know, cats don't usually care for water…but I guess Lily is such an oddball she really didn't mind. It kind of took out the entertainment and humor factor that I was going for when she just sat there in the tub completely unfazed and nothing interesting happened. Not only that but I've been having technical issues with my camera and can't figure out a way to upload the footage onto my Mac so that I can edit and upload it.
So without further ado, here's my Valentines Day story. I know it's cheesy and sappy and most readers probably don't care to read this (in which case, that's fine. To each his own I suppose) but I had such a lovely day and was so happy that four days later I still can't stop smiling about it.
I've never had a "real" Valentines Day before. Usually my mom would just surprise my sister and I with a box of chocolate and a teddy bear or our favorite DVD or something sweet but I've never gotten to spend it with a significant other. Actually, until he came along, I'd never had a boyfriend but that's a different story. We both agreed we really didn't want to do anything for Valentines Day because it was just one of those cheesy Hallmark-y holidays with little to no significance and shouldn't you tell someone you love them everyday, anyway? …this still didn't keep me from dropping ever so subtle hints. And quite a few of them but most importantly, I kept mentioning I like flowers. So I was very VERY happy to come home from class last Friday to him knocking on the door and showing up with these-
I love flowers. I don't know why. But I do simply because they're pretty. Besides, it was incredibly sweet. :) Plus he brought some chocolates and took my car to be washed while he borrowed it (his was in the shop. That's a whole other story.) which is just above and beyond what I expected for my Valentines. On top of that, he drove us all the way out to Austin. I didn't think we'd actually get they chance to eat until maybe midnight- it was just after rush hour on Valentines which was also a Friday night so of course every place was packed. Turns out, his brother hooked us up at PF Chang's and we were able to sit down immediately and order our dinner.
I've never been to PF Chang's before and oh my god it was pretty fantastic. Everything was so good and my boyfriend was surprised calamari is actually one of my favorite foods. I even tried some of the mongolian beef - something I haven't had in a very long time because I'm not a huge fan of red meat but I always have this blog in the back of my mind now when I'm out to try something new and did just that. I didn't manage to get any pictures of our dinner (because I was enjoying my company and the awesome food and nobody wants to go out on a date who has their phone in their hand the entire time taking pictures instead of enjoying the moment).
Afterwards we went on a walk downtown and by the river. The moon was out, the sky was clear and it was really nice out. Found a beautiful view of the Austin skyline, too.
I always have trouble wrapping up these posts but I hope this will do for this weeks update as to what's going on in my life and any new or exciting experiences I've had. A Valentines Day dinner was definitely a nice experience and something I'll hopefully never forget.
Stay tuned next week hopefully for a something a bit more exciting (that is, if I can get more than 2 days off work…) I still have fun plans to upload a video and that would possibly require a ukelele purchase :D
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