Valentine's Day

Well, well, well, am I not a bad girl?! I cannot believe it's been this long since I posted last. Where did all that time go? Will someone kindly recapture it for me? Oh, well, such is life!

I hope everyone else had as good of a day as I did yesterday! I had the best Valentine's Day I've had in years. This year the youth group didn't even do anything special like we usually do. And, here Valentine's Day fell on a weekend and we still didn't do anything as a group! I think the whole problem was that everyone is too stinking lazy to plan something. Oh, well, that's how it goes. I had more fun than when we did plan something. I had to work. But because it's President's Day weekend, we were busy like bees at the store! Sometimes it was almost like the good old days when I almost had to pull a ticket just to skip out and use the toilet!!!! The boss was there almost all day, and that did not even dampen my good day. He was in an extraordinary good mood and almost everything was peaches and cream. I say almost everything because he gets frustrated when things aren't priced and there was a discrepancy on a price, the sign for a Nativity piece said a different price than what the box was marked. The price had gone up for the new year but the sign had not been reprinted. She was buying two pieces and the one had to come from the display. I told her the one that is out and marked with the lower price, I can give it for that price but the second one from out of storage woudl have to be sold at the new price. She grumbled a little but finally shut up and went on her merry way. It was merry for me when she left, hopefully merry for her as well!

Then a good friend stopped in to pick up a desk she'd ordered. I knew she was coming but I did not know she would bring me a Valentine's Day gift. I was so surprised! She gave me a beautiful rose in a vase filled with hershey kisses and a very soft cute huggeable bear with his arms around the vase and he was also holding a heart that says "Love". She gave some other candy and a beautiful card. That really made my day.

Then when I got home and was getting ready to have friends over, the doorbell went. No one comes to this house without warning, because we have no peepie hole in our door. We don't know who comes til we have the door opened and it's too late! Plus we don't encourage drop in's because we are in comfy clothes when we are home and do not want to offend anyone. So it was with trepidition that I went to the door. Away with the trepidition at once! It was my close friend Rhonda with a beautiful single stem rose for me and some Valentine's cake and a beautiful card! Ooooh, I'm beginning to think I might be loved!!!!!! I have never gotten stuff like this before! Wow, God bless these thoughtful friends of mine!

So that was great, and then 3 of my friends came for the evening. We started off with Papa John's pizza. Any day with Papa John's pizza is a good day!!! We had soda and chocolate brownies and candy and chips and salsa. Everyone knows you don't count calories on Valentine's Day! Nor do you think about clogged arteries or anything else for that matter! You just eat and be careful not to overeat and pray that God will guard your heart from heart failure and forgive you for eating junk food! Yummy! We watched two movies: Snowball Express and I am Sam. The latter was especially touching. It was about a mentally challenged man who had a babygirl and raised her til she was six. Then the authorities tried to take her away because his mental capacity was that of a 7 year old. He went through some heart rending things and court appts. til he finally got her back. I had to grab the tissues. My friends left around 12:30 and then it was off to bed for me. After, that is, I checked my email!

How did the computer become the boss in this house???? I mean, since there is no man here, I thought I wear the pants!!!!!!! Hmmmm! Seems to me like the computer has picked up a pair of pants, and they're not from Goodwill either!!!!!!! Sigh! The dumb thing has a hold on me. I mean sometimes I am kicking and screaming and trying to get out the door and it just pulls me back and makes me open it up and waste my time away. Like right now I was supposed to be getting ready for the youth supper (a half hour ago!)and here I am at the silly computer instead! Oh, my goodness, speaking of time......aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! There's not much left before we leave and I'm still in my nightie!!!!! HELP!!!! Adios!!!!!