Valentine's Day

(Insert deep dreamy sigh here)
If you had asked me seven and three quarters months ago if I liked Valentine's Day I would have told you absolutely not. I would have ranted about how much I hate it. I would have told you that I very proudly DO NOT celebrate the 'unspoken' holiday. The reason is, at this time, it was nothing more than a reminder to me that I was a pitiful single person with no one to spend the day with, but mostly I think it was because every year I would hope that maybe, just maybe, by some sort of miracle someone would decide they really liked me and confess their undying love to me. (Yes I am that dramatic in my head.)
And without fail, year after year, I would be very coldy and cruely be disapointed by fate. No notes from secret admirers, no suprise teddy bears from crushes, just candy and slips of paper from girl friends. (There was one year a boy gave me a box of choclates, but he was freaky and obsessed with Russia and Socialism. Go figure. I always attracted the weirdos.)
This year is different. SO very different. This year I have Michael.
I must admit I was a bit worried that by this time we wouldn't be together, especially since just a month ago we weren't together and going through some really nasty things, and I would spend another Valentine's Day single and bitter. But he came through, as always, my amazing beautiful Michael.
Nothing really went as planned and he was disappointed, I could tell, but it didn't matter. Things fell through, plans were ruined, but we were still out together. We found other things to do. We had FUN! And it was amazing. I don't care that things didn't work out completely as planned, it was the best day I've had in a long long time.
We started out hanging out at my house for a while, watching You;ve Got Mail on Netflix, but we were both too excited to get out of the house to finish it, so we left about twenty minutes early. We stopped at his house really quick for some Macaroni (we were both starving) and then we went to the mall. I wasn't really expecting to buy anything there seeing as generally I just browse some of the more interesting stores, but he insisted on getting me a present. And by present I mean pampering me beyond all belief. It was cute, and somewhat flattering, though I still feel bad for making him spend all of his hard earned money on me.
After the mall we dropped the stuff off at his house and headed to the other mall for dinner. We planned on watching a movie, but found that we had slightly miscalculated funds, which was okay. So we had an early dinner at Red Robin (which I will shamelessly endorse as utterly amazing. Yay for free advertising!) and as always Michael tipped generously. That's how sweet he is. I kind of felt bad for our server because a girl I assumed was his girlfriend (hewould sit down and talk to her for a few seconds whenever he wasn't busy pandering to our needs) was there and he obviously had a long shift on such a busy day. I wanted to just tell him to go and sit with her and we would manage our food on our own. I felt so selfish. But Michael gave him a nice tip and I felt better.
Since we didn't have money for a movie or the comedy show we wanted to see we just headed back to his place and watched Van Helsing, which was perfectly okay with me. It's a cool movie and it was nice to relax after such a busy day. After Van Helsing was over we had a slight tickle/ my attempt to splash water on him war. (Which I won, I might add. :D) We exhausted ourselves so thoroughly that I had to go sit in front of an open window for a while to cool down. Aftere that we headed back to my place and played with my cat until he had to go home.
All in all it was a simple, but amazing day. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect Valentine's with a more perfect person. At it's end I could only wish that we had just a little more time...
But as that famous line goes... "One more day, One more time. One more sunset maybe I'd be satisfied. But then again; I know what it would do. Leave me wishin' still for one more day with you."
Happy Valentine's day everyone! Hope yours was as amazing as mine!