Valentine's Day: Scene 1 Take 4

I'm sure the majority of people reading this have had their fill (and more) of mushy Valentine's day posts, status updates, and other such lovey dovey proclamations.

With that in mind I will try to keep the sappiness on this post to a minimum. 

But this post is necessary. 

Ok, not exactly necessary. But there is need to celebrate and I figured this was a good way to express my triumph.

You see, Logan and I have been together for 3 1/2  years and have now celebrated Valentine's days for years.

Literally for years we have planned gloriously romantic nights of dinners by candle light, flowers, dancing, decadent chocolates, and so much more.  However, each year those wistful hopes dissolved into burnt hands, crying babies, and less than enchanting nights of watching chick flicks with Logan's roommates...

Three times we have attempted to have a romantic evening and three times we have failed. miserably.

Until now. . .

It was. . .well, AWESOME!

To start off I sent Logan a heart shaped pizza from papa john's--Logan loves pizza. Not a "once a month" kind of love but a "could eat it every day" love. So needless to say he approved.

Then when I got home from work I received these little beauties:

Gorgeous lilies (which are my favorite), some classy bling, truffles, and a freakin' cute, sappy love note. Needless to say I approved.

 A little later we made a dang good dinner which consisted of the following: 

Appetizer: Artichoke and melted butter.

Main Course: Beef wellington (I don't like pink meat so Logan improvised to make it well done), roasted brussel sprouts and almonds, and apples with smoked gouda.

Dessert: Poached pear wrapped in puff pastry drizzled in a vanilla sugar sauce with vanilla ice cream.

  

Setting the mood with a little Frank Sinatra, we cooked, danced, laughed, and had an amazing night. And yes, it was as good as it looks. 

    

Ok, so this could probably be considered a "typical" Valentine's day, but for us there was a sense of accomplishment about making it through the night without some kind of fire or the loss of digits. So in my book, that's an achievement. :]

I hope all of you had a Valentine's day that turned out as well as ours did, and if it didn't, know that you are not alone. I've been there and those terrible nights make the good ones that much sweeter.  True story.

Someday I will have a fantastic Valentine's day with my husband. Check.

The start of somedays aka. fridge magnets :]

So I figured I should probably start out slow.

Baby steps.

Here's something that I pinned a while back and have wanted to do. And it helps that our new apartment is lacking in some essentials.

Like fridge magnets! :]

Look at it.
My poor fridge is bare.

So I felt the need to fix that. Luckily I already had lots of  those little marble thingys (to put it eloquently) from my wedding, and some mod podge laying around, so I pretty much had the majority of the materials. But here's a list in case you would like to make these lovely little things to spruce your own barren fridge. :]

Material List:                                                                              Price:

• Marble Thingys                                                                                      about $1.00          
• Mod Podge                                                                                 $5.00- for a 4oz bottle
• Magnets                                                                   $0.97-$2.00 (depending on what you get)
• Good lookin' paper                                                                                 Dirt cheap.

                                                                                                            Total Price: ~$0.20 per magnet

Assembly of the magnets doesn't take much brain power.

Note: Sorry for the blatantly obviously steps that are about to follow but I also acquired a shiny new camera from my awesome brother that should not be wasting away in the bag so I had to pull it out and snap a few photos.

How I did it aka. directions:

 Pick out some fancy paper.

Trace and cut out shape of marble.

Lather some mod podge on the back.

Slap your paper on.

Add your magnet.

Repeat 10 times and you're done!

Some items to be aware of: The magnet strip that I got is not very strong so you may want to spend the extra few cents and get the stronger ones. Also make sure you let the mod podge dry before utilizing your magnets or it could possibly pull off the paper from the marble. (I got a little excited and tried them out too quickly).

So yeah, pretty simple.

Crazy simple actually. I know, but I had to start somewhere and my fridge looks a bit better now.

Some day I will make fridge magnets. Check.

Today.

Though I wish it with all my might and sometimes even have the urge to pretend that I am,
I am not a naturally gifted writer.

Nor am I very creative.

I look at lovely blogs in which eloquent people describe so perfectly the various events that transpire in their lives; or amazing crafty people who can make the most fantastic things under the sun using what seems to be a toothpick and some aluminum foil

And I dream fondly that some day I will have the time, the means, and the talent to perform such awsomenessities.

But so far that's all its been,
A dream.

Some day I will. . .

I use those words a lot, and I have very packed boards of unaccomplished goals on pintrest to prove it. :]

So.
This blog is for Me.

It's to allow me to get beyond that "Some day stage" and enjoy engaging in all sorts of things life has to offer, while hopefully improving upon my writing/journal skills in the mean time--who doesn't like killing two birds with one stone! Figuratively that is. . . No literal bird killing for me please.

So here it is.

My some days...