Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day Countdown:

420 minutes my nephew watched the boys

60 minutes we worked out together

18 dollars we spent on painting pottery tiles at Ceramic Bayou

11 times we mentioned how much we love the wine bar and coffeehouse of the restaurant we ate at afterwards, The Grove, while we enjoyed their spinach, goat cheese, roasted pepper, and bacon pizza

8 chocolate covered strawberries we ate afterwards at the Austin skyline overlook

3 tv shows we watched once we got home and crawled into bed whilst eating the rest of the chocolate covered strawberries

2 times we had awesome, mind-blowing s*x

1 bottle of champagne we drank while watching said tv shows

and

1 perfect Valentine's holiday

Valentine Soiree

My life has been a go-go-go of friends, family, school, and work, with hardly a break in between any of it lately. So when an opportunity came up to have champagne, sushi, and strawberries at a local clothing boutique as part of a free Valentine soiree I was all over it. With a friend. Well, when the three friends I invited couldn't make it for one reason or another after the previous invitee couldn't make it I decided I'd just stay home. As the boys got ready to head that direction this evening for cub scouts I changed my mind at the last minute and decided to go with them so I could drop them off and go all by my lonesome.

I had a fabulous time!! Drinking Brut Rose, eating chocolate covered strawberries drizzled with white chocolate, and california rolls, and shopping fabulous clothing including Voom, MM Couture, and Susana Monaco. I got asked if I was a student (thank you people who mention when you think people look young), and a homeless guy on the way out asked how I could look so pretty. I wanted to take him and his guitar for a drink. What made it even better was on the way home Li called to see if I wanted to come over for a soothe the nerves beer after a confrontation I had to have earlier today, and when I told her what I was up to she called shotgun on the next soiree. I'm all over that. I love life, and I love my friends. I'm also a little relieved and loving that I can still have such a good girlie time all by myself even after having so much girlie time.

Valentine's Party!!!

Last night my girl Genie and I hosted a Valentine's party here at my house complete with chocolate fountain, strawberries, pretzels, pineapple, marshmallows, graham crackers, avocado dip and chips, and white, red, and sparkling wine. Yum! We played Wise and Otherwise which is hilarious and my new favorite game. Only we made up our own rules by voting for whoever came up with the funniest saying. We stayed up too late, drank too much, ate too much chocolate and strawberries, laughed a lot (because there can never be too much of that, even when we have tears streaming down our faces), and had WAY too much fun.

My chocolate fountain!! And our red velvet tic-tac-toe cupcakes!

We had to play tic-tac-toe to eat one.

These are double sized bottles of wine.  The six of us who drank finished off four. You do the math.

Purty setup. My girlie Li did this.

Mmmm, cupcake. Blurry, but too fun not to put in here.

This picture was a total joke, Miss Suzy Homemaker with fresh baked cupcakes... with the lid on them