post valentines day '08

hi peoples--

so- i was just sittin here wondering what i should write-- cuz i am still only on my first cup of coffee, and not about to go around taking pictures of stuff just yet--
so , i think , hmm.. too bad i deleted so many of my posts on here-- i could link back to last Valentines Day, and compare the two. that could be a little interesting actually. even for me, just to see the difference. i remember some of it. i do have it on disc .. perhaps i will drag it out and re-post it later-- with pics of what we got each other this time. yes-- i think i will do that-- so check back later-- like after everyone has left and i have time to do these things. 9 ish maybe TX time.

(*note- i did find this post--
it was actually written over two days,
needless to say- it's a lot of reading-
but i will post it-
later though, maybe dinner-time-ish)

ok so anyhow--

i can at least tell ya about yesterday-- and throw in photos later--along with the reminiscent previous year post. how's that?

V-DAY 2008-- :))

i woke up-- obviously. that is usually a good sign. always good to start the day breathing.

ok.. so , anyhow, i wasn't up for long before soulman got up-- i had got his gift the day before.

which btw-- is something we stopped doing for the most part-- years ago. exchanging gifts, i mean. cards-- most years, not always, but gifts-- nah. just really-- we just aren't that big into this whole Vday thing. we never really have been i don't think. maybe the first few. but we have been married to each other.. pretty close to half our lives--- =[LATE correction; make that a THIRD ]it just doesn't mean a whole lot. the day-- not how we feel. ya know. i think it's a kinda stupid "holiday" actually-- and i actually like the way Gypsy wrote about it yesterday. she had a phew phrases for it that i got a good chuckle out of.

so anyhow----
goo-lawd, i get off track easy--
rewind--
soulman gets up-- and i already had his gift ready to give him. so i did. he says "yours isn't here yet". that kinda told me what it was .. but i acted dumb.. and moved on to give him his.

(look for photo here later)
photo alert:

rewind even further-- like to 1995... hubby loses his wedding ring-- right off his hand. we were on a trip back from a not so good family situation.. baby soulkid had food poisoning.. she was 2. almost. not good. he never found his ring. lost getting gas..or at a motel on the road somewhere. so he replaced it with a sterling band.. bought at Clines Corners.. a tourist trap travel store off the highway in NM.. some time later.
ever since then (the time he lost it-- i have always wanted to replace it with a nice band-- but we really could never affford to-- any extra money like that, always had to go elsewhere-- or be squandered in a different manner)

SO--- that is what i got him for Valentines day. (obviously) - a new , nice wedding band. he is the type of guy-- and i'm sure there are many-- but i have known many too who aren't this way-- but he never ever ever, takes his wedding ring off. so i gave it to him before work, and he was very happy with it. i told him he could take it back and get fishing stuff if he wanted, but this is what i have wanted to get him .. and he knows that, and he said he loved it.. put it right on, and looked at his hand as if it were full of diamonds. you kinda know a guy loves ya, when he actually loves a ring like that. ya know.
i love my soulman.

(insert hugs and kisses here-- no photos for you!)

then he had to leave for work.

y'all know i was almost out of smokes -- not a good thing-- but i remedied that situation .

i went to the store, after a quick post- but it was before school-- so i picked up some flowers for soulkid--(i already had a card for her)-- i gave them to her-- from both me and soul-dad--before she left. she was happy--- " :))

(look for photo later)

here it is:

(only thing is-- it's the card i gave her,
but the flowers soul-dad sent)

ok... so later.. i'm paying bills and crap-- and someone comes to the door-- a rare thing in soulland-- so-- i go check-- and it was fed-ex. he just left a box at the door and left. so-- i didn't even look at the label.. i assumed it was mine.; hubby told me if anything comes -- to text him. so i do-- i say-- i just got somethin from fed ex-- he said check the card, make sure it's not soulkids.... let's just say i felt a bit of an idiot-- texted him back-- cuz it WAS soulkids!
oh well.

(well.. see flowers above)

so then, i went back to what i was doin.

kind of blank between this time and when people started comin home.
soulman got home early-- maybe 2 ish-- but i was asleep-- i know-- i just can't help myself sometimes. i got cold, and just was gonna cover up and watch tv-- but i fell asleep. :((
so, i woke up about 3.
i walk out to the living room.. and there's soulman , grinnin ear to ear-- the gift bag from the jewelry store that i had given him earlier in the morning sittin on my chair table...
i say-- what's that?? he says.. "your recycled gift bag". i say-- "i see that"... so of course i gotta go scope it out... you won't even believe what he got me... sooooo

(insert photo here)
ready? this is pretty funny-- maybe just to me?
but our gifts are kinda backwards,
if ya look at the traditional gift giving thing.
dontcha think?

see?

it's a fishing reel!
BUT, not just ANY fishing reel.
i have wanted this one for like a year.
it's special made for plastics--
it has a little bar on it,
that when ya click it with your thumb,
it automatically reels only about three to four inches and locks,
how totally awesome is that???
for me-- it is totally cool!

see?

pretty huh?
i will get much more use-- and fun out of this than
a diamond.
sorry ladies-- but that is me.
just so damn easy to please aint i?

then soulkid got home about 340 or so, and we decide to figure out what to do about dinner.. do we wanna go out or cook on the grill. that took no time to decide. soulkid did want to go out-- but we did not. i really have nothing decent to wear out on a day like vday anyhow-- and two-- neither of us care to be around the crowds and waits that vday brings-- nor do we care to watch the idiots who think that their once a year public show of affection actually means anything. ugh. i don't know. is it just me? valentines day almost makes me want to gag. maybe i will feel differently when soulkids eyes light up with newfound love -- i don't know. but for me, for now, it doesn't take "show" to Know. hmmm.. not a bad slogan. for what? dunno. it just came to me. but it works.

ok.. anyhow-- good Lord.. i'm all over the place this morning. oh-- what DID we do about dinner? hubby cooked steaks on the grill/smoker. yummy. he had to go to the store. which apparently was no fun for him; with all the last minute dinner and flower shoppers. but he got back, and had some steaks and some salmon for soulkid. she loves salmon..and of course chicken. picky much? it all turned out yummy. i made baked taters, and some green beans. good dinner, no dressing up --or gagging required. :))

anyhow-- when he got back from the store-- he had a big ole box in his hands--- just like the one that came earlier-- and said-- you didn't hear the fed ex guy??? i was like no-- i think sushi did though.. cuz right after he left for the store-- sushi had a barking attack and went to the door, but neither soulkid or i heard anything.

so anyhow.. i was on the computer.. TRYING to talk to someone.. and there's soulkid opening MY box! and soulman.. glaring at me because i didn't immediately stop what i was doing to open my gift. (i was just trying to finish a thought on the puter) :)) which i lost ..btw.
so i had to end my conversation..mid sentence and i opened my gift... well.. was wasn't already opened by soulkid-- which wasn't much :))--- and it was mahvelous. beautiful, red roses with babies breath.. a red vase, and a little box of chocolate. :)) very nice. and really-- i don't even remember the last time he got me flowers. i could guess..but i'd prolly be wrong. but it has been a while.

(*note- i remembered when i found last years Vday post-
hubby got me roses -OOPS-- told ya i would be wrong to guess-
bad me-
MY SENILE!)

(insert photo here)


(that's the chocolates on the left end-
hubbys card , my roses,
and soulkids A.M. cheapo flowers.---
and just a note-
that's a really pretty angel on the way far left--
that jamie sent me for christmas-
along with that wood "Faith" sign :))-
and that fish photo frame-- was a christmas gift from my sis (Oldy)

so then... we ate , watched a couple recorded tv shows: survivor.. and celebrity apprentice... and then i took my non- romantic ass to bed.. at like 930. :))

all in all-- a nice day in soulland
i really hope y'all had good ones toooooooo.

so anyways-- since this ended up to be so long, i will post last years Vday later tonight-- if you care to return. :))

happy FRIDAY!!!!