Valentines Day 2010

Valentine's Day was so wonderful this year that I was really sad when Austin had to go to work the next day. I didn't want him to go and I was sad the whole day. I woke up at 6:30 am just to watch him get ready for work. That's how good the day was for the both of us because he missed me too. I am very blessed to have a wonderful partner, best friend, and lover.

Because my brain can only remember so much, I don't remember every detail of my three Valentine's days. For the first one, I remember getting 30 Nancy Drew hardbacks and oriental lillies. He surprised me with the flowers because he said that he didn't believe in cut flowers since they die and he didn't want that to be a symbol of our relationship. I was very happy that he got them for me and I jumped onto him for joy. I love that he went to Half Price books, found as many as he could, and got them for me. Then there were other things that we did...like eat and stuff but the details I'll keep to myself.

The second one, I don't remember as much because it was the middle of our busy season and we were both really stressed. I do remember doing something fun because I told my co-workers about it and they gushed and I got flowers of course--red carnations or roses. I don't remember because our anniversary was 2 months after that so I am confusing my flowers at the moment. Anyway, I searched through my gmail chat history and I found in my chat with Arnie that we made dinner together (sockeye salmon, garlic mashed potatoes, red wine, red velvet cake, and grilled asparagus). I just remembered that he got me a life jacket so I wouldn't drown for our trip to Hawaii! He is so sweet.

For this year, we started out with making breakfast together. He got up early and surprisingly went to Pike Place Market to buy fresh produce like bell pepper, garlic that looked like green onions, sweet onion, wild mushrooms, mangoes, and croissants from La Panier. For flowers, he got me the fragrant paper white. Because I requested chocolate pancakes, he bought chocolate pancake mix and because I love mangoes, we had orange mango juice. Thus for brunch, we had the freshest omelet that I ever had, fresh mangoes, warm, buttery croissants, orange mango juice, and chocolate pancakes. Then, we watched the Blues Brothers because it was on the list of movies I had to watch to understand American culture and some of Austin's movie quotes that tells me sometimes. For dinner, we went to Purple in downtown. We got to dress up for the occassion, had fresh oysters that had red fish eggs on top(colored for the occassion), mixed salad in berry sauce, I had rack of lamb while he had steak, wine from France, apple pie with cardamom, and brownie cooked with syrah. We finished it off with a tisane for me and tea for Austin. The rest of the night was just as wonderful and I didn't want to sleep because it meant the night would end. But I had to finally sleep because he had to go to work the next day.

Our dates, celebrations, and holidays are always centered around food. I went into great detail about what we ate because we both love to eat and cook together. I love exploring the culinary arts with my boyfriend and cooking together has taught us that we are two different cooks but we somehow find a way to work together and come up with something delicioius. We have tiny tiffs sometimes when we cook but we get past them.

We realized that we don't have as many activities that we share but one thing we do that is most important is food, cooking, reading, and learning. Thank goodness we have those since he's not into dancing as much as I am and I'm not into video games as he is. We have different tastes in music and going out on a Friday night means different things to the two of us.

But I love what I have right now and I hope that it stays like this forever.