Valentine's Day Weekend

This past week has been ! I loved each and every day.

Friday 

(the day before Valentine's Day or as Leslie Knope and I like to call it, Galentine's Day)

I had dinner plans with my two best friends, Hol and Cyn. Last minute, Meig wanted to hang out so I invited her too. I recreated the Shrimp Fra Diavolo dish I made for Holen's birthday dinner and tried my hands at a new dish, bread-less Eggplant Parmesan. 

For dessert, Cynthia made the traditional Valentine's Day dessert, chocolate covered strawberries. All gluten free, of course. While we were grocery shopping for our ingredients, Hol was freaking out about her passing the NCLEX exam she took earlier that day. She already graduated nursing school and had an excellent job lined up but in order to start her first day she needed to pass this test. Usually, the better you do on the test the shorter it is. The least amount of questions you can have is 75. Holen took the entire 275 question test and this was verification enough for her that she had failed. Luckily, Meig is a nurse too. She told her that, as unfortunate as it may be, she may have been 1 in the 15 testers that had to take the entire 275 questionnaire. Meig, also, verified a way to check to see if Hol passed. Which she did. =) So proud of her. 

This is her authentic I-just-became-a-nurse smile.

I loved hanging out with the three of them. Hopefully, next time Meighan will stay longer so she can get to know them better. She's not a girl's girl, so I can understand her reluctance to hang out with two new chicks she doesn't know. She liked them though. 

Holen's Galentine card to me.

We ate, burned Cynthia's old notes, and talked until morning over a colorful roasting fire.

Saturday

Woke up to some dumb drama. I calmed down afterwards but it interferred with Andrew's sweet Valentine's Day gesture. He created this beautiful breakfast from scratch!

Homemade chocolate crepe with raspberry filling and two chocolate covered strawberries. I think I just came.

My favorite tea, English Breakfast with sugar and milk. 

He planned for us to go ice skating and watch a band downtown but I wasn't into it. I felt like staying in, so we cuddled with the furballs during the day and caught up on our shows. 

Mandy dropped by to use my Lightroom. At night, we ate at the Cuban restaurant near our place, Mambo Jambo and watched the worst movie, Jupiter Asccending. God lord, was it terrible. 

Oh, him? Just the best dude in the world. That's all.

This may be one of the first times in getting a cheese plate that none of the cheeses tasted like year old cum. It was all delish.

My lambchop dish. Not as good as Andrew's but still to die for. I know how crazy this sounds but even the RICE was amazing.

The Mambo Jambo melt-in-your-mouth-steak. Andrew recreated this on Monday. It was his best cooking yet.

Sunday

(aka Anti-Valentine's Day)

Andrew bought Patton Oswalt tickets for his aunt, Nancy and I for Christmas (!). I know, I know, Oswalt is the bees knees. 

However, we awoke to bad news. Nancy texted him with regrettable news of a stomach virus. She's the sweetest woman so it was a total bummer hearing it. I was looking forward to getting to know her a little bit better. We went over our last minute choices of who we could invite in her place and landed on Mandy! It all worked out awesome. She's not religious and his dirty offensive jokes would be welcomed amongst such a "dirty" mind. ;) When she got to our place, I was finishing up some Critical Thinking hw. We headed out to get some grub at The Counter and arrive at the Tabernacle right on time to see the opening act. 

The funny man himself.

Since Monday I've been chilling out reading, watching videos, and having a really relaxing time. Tuesday, most of my classes were canceled due to "black ice". I'm okay with it. I did bump into Mr. May, the one teacher that did not cancel class at Whole Foods. His demeanor was courteous but you could tell he wasn't amused by my absence. It gave me two extra days to study for a midterm and a quiz tomorrow. Which I have not done. I did help give the furballs baths!

I could definitely use more days like this.

I'm so grateful for this blog. I know that in the future, I'll love to look back at all the great things we did. I won't have to strain myself trying to remember. Yeah, my memory is that bad. Now, I shall create my legal cheat sheet for CT and eat some Buca di Beppo left overs. 

Oh, yeah. I did find out I am two weeks late. Yeah, I did the test and, no, I'm not pregnant. Just another side symptom of Endo! I should probably find out if that's exactly what's wrong with me because if these nauseousness and mood swings last any longer I'm going to shove a pitch fork into someone.