Valentine's Day
So...........I'm going to ignore all the crap going through my head as far as livejournal is concerned...and make a post about Valentine's Day, because it needs to be done and I didn't do it. So this is going to be a pretend, I just got home on Tuesday night journal entry. I guess the other stuff can come later =). So here goes.
This has got to have been the best Valentine's Day I've ever had. The day before, Kayla and I went to HEB during 7th period and got Harry Potter, Transformers, and Twisted Whiskers valentines to give to our friends at school. I also surprised myself by getting a card for Nick - a funny one, not one of those sappy kind. Anyway, I'm pretty proud of this part. The next morning I stopped by his house on my way to school and with incredibe sneak-skill left the card in an envelope with Kung-Fu Masters stuck on the outside on his windshield. Purkey wasn't there for tutoring when I got to school, so Kayla and I made our valentines (compliments included) in the cafeteria. The rest of the school day was filled with spreading cheer, receiving cheer, blowing bubble from a heart-shaped ring (thanks to Leslie), passing out valentines, eating sweets, socializing, and love poems in English. During 7th, Meliki and I went to El Carribe since neither one of us had eaten lunch. One of the guys getting high at the dumpsters told us happy valentines day and something like "you look as good as a motherfucker." Those crazy kids... Anyway, the meal was good and fun, but we didn't realize to go to the cash register for change instead of wait, so we got back to school pretty late, and I was only in tutoring for 20 minutes or so.
So I'm on way way home (going down Shoal Creek cause it's a great way to go!) when I get a call from Nick on my dad's cell phone. Instead of calling me when he was leaving school, he came straight to my house, so he was greeted by my dad instead of me. We decided to meet at his house, so I made him a Transformers valentine and increased my sleepiness while I waited outside. Then he arrived at my window with flowers (that are white and pretty and alive!) and a big heart-shaped container of chocolate. I'm afraid my reaction wasn't what it should have been, but I told him that later. I'm glad it worked out with giving each other stuff. I didn't know how that was going to work or what we were going to do.
First we went to an elementary school down the street so he could vote before the polls closed. Then it was kind of a quick decision to go to Mt. Binnel. We'd talked about it before, so it seemed a good day to check it out. When we got there, I decided I'd found Austin's Inpiration Point. Finally! Then I realized how strange it seems for a bunch of couples to makeout next to each other. Maybe some of them were just sitting close together, but I thought there like three at least sitting in front of the best view when we got there. That was weird, so we wandered around awhile away from the lemon trees and such...and the moon looked nice with the sky and a few clouds and stars were out. We looked at the view a little before we left cause that's pretty much the main attraction. If you haven't been there, you should really go sometime; you get this great city view. I want to go during the day sometime and walk on the trails when I can see them. Before the end of the night we were turned away from closing restaurants and discovered that Slices & Ices pretty much lives up to its reputation. When we got back to his house (where my car was) somebody had Sinatra playing outside. Awesome. He said "Happy Valentine's Day" and it was. Eve had a gig that night so nobody was home when I got there. I opened the box from my grandparents, which turned out to be a card and this really pretty necklace with venecian glass hearts. My parents had also left me a heart-shaped box of butterfinger chocolate hearts, a cupcake, and those candy hearts with the fun sayings on them. I felt bad for not being there earlier when my mom and sister decorated the big cookie heart that we have every year. It's never a big deal, and I don't think we're usually even together for it, but my mom was probably a little disappointed. So I felt a little guilty for being so loved and gone from home all day, and did the smallest gesture I probably could have; I made my parents valentines and left them on their pillows. I think the enjoyed them, which is good. I'm just now realising that it would have been nice to have planned to do more for them. Next year... But it all worked out.
So sorry for the me me me me stuff and documenting almost every detail of this one day; I just want to remember it. I guess actually having a boyfriend this year (first time for a valentine's) made me not feel bitter and annoyed like I usually do, and aside from having fun with him, allowed me to have fun with the whole day and all of the people around me. I hope I'll be able to do that in the future, relationship or not. It's was almost a shame not seeing a single kid wearing a Weezer t-shirt though. The next day was a let-down in comparison. Time to start making up holidays...
This has got to have been the best Valentine's Day I've ever had. The day before, Kayla and I went to HEB during 7th period and got Harry Potter, Transformers, and Twisted Whiskers valentines to give to our friends at school. I also surprised myself by getting a card for Nick - a funny one, not one of those sappy kind. Anyway, I'm pretty proud of this part. The next morning I stopped by his house on my way to school and with incredibe sneak-skill left the card in an envelope with Kung-Fu Masters stuck on the outside on his windshield. Purkey wasn't there for tutoring when I got to school, so Kayla and I made our valentines (compliments included) in the cafeteria. The rest of the school day was filled with spreading cheer, receiving cheer, blowing bubble from a heart-shaped ring (thanks to Leslie), passing out valentines, eating sweets, socializing, and love poems in English. During 7th, Meliki and I went to El Carribe since neither one of us had eaten lunch. One of the guys getting high at the dumpsters told us happy valentines day and something like "you look as good as a motherfucker." Those crazy kids... Anyway, the meal was good and fun, but we didn't realize to go to the cash register for change instead of wait, so we got back to school pretty late, and I was only in tutoring for 20 minutes or so.
So I'm on way way home (going down Shoal Creek cause it's a great way to go!) when I get a call from Nick on my dad's cell phone. Instead of calling me when he was leaving school, he came straight to my house, so he was greeted by my dad instead of me. We decided to meet at his house, so I made him a Transformers valentine and increased my sleepiness while I waited outside. Then he arrived at my window with flowers (that are white and pretty and alive!) and a big heart-shaped container of chocolate. I'm afraid my reaction wasn't what it should have been, but I told him that later. I'm glad it worked out with giving each other stuff. I didn't know how that was going to work or what we were going to do.
First we went to an elementary school down the street so he could vote before the polls closed. Then it was kind of a quick decision to go to Mt. Binnel. We'd talked about it before, so it seemed a good day to check it out. When we got there, I decided I'd found Austin's Inpiration Point. Finally! Then I realized how strange it seems for a bunch of couples to makeout next to each other. Maybe some of them were just sitting close together, but I thought there like three at least sitting in front of the best view when we got there. That was weird, so we wandered around awhile away from the lemon trees and such...and the moon looked nice with the sky and a few clouds and stars were out. We looked at the view a little before we left cause that's pretty much the main attraction. If you haven't been there, you should really go sometime; you get this great city view. I want to go during the day sometime and walk on the trails when I can see them. Before the end of the night we were turned away from closing restaurants and discovered that Slices & Ices pretty much lives up to its reputation. When we got back to his house (where my car was) somebody had Sinatra playing outside. Awesome. He said "Happy Valentine's Day" and it was. Eve had a gig that night so nobody was home when I got there. I opened the box from my grandparents, which turned out to be a card and this really pretty necklace with venecian glass hearts. My parents had also left me a heart-shaped box of butterfinger chocolate hearts, a cupcake, and those candy hearts with the fun sayings on them. I felt bad for not being there earlier when my mom and sister decorated the big cookie heart that we have every year. It's never a big deal, and I don't think we're usually even together for it, but my mom was probably a little disappointed. So I felt a little guilty for being so loved and gone from home all day, and did the smallest gesture I probably could have; I made my parents valentines and left them on their pillows. I think the enjoyed them, which is good. I'm just now realising that it would have been nice to have planned to do more for them. Next year... But it all worked out.
So sorry for the me me me me stuff and documenting almost every detail of this one day; I just want to remember it. I guess actually having a boyfriend this year (first time for a valentine's) made me not feel bitter and annoyed like I usually do, and aside from having fun with him, allowed me to have fun with the whole day and all of the people around me. I hope I'll be able to do that in the future, relationship or not. It's was almost a shame not seeing a single kid wearing a Weezer t-shirt though. The next day was a let-down in comparison. Time to start making up holidays...