Sitting here wondering if I'm Pollyanna or Eeyore - Day 45: Love sweet (Nepalese-themed) love

Steve came over about 7 and we had Verve Cliquot champagne that I had had sitting in my wine rack for a while - it was slightly past its prime but still lovely - and Lindor chocolates which I had from Christmas (romance on a budget people!) ...

I got a moose I had seen at the Art Gallery (I called him Valium; lord knows why! LOL) and 4 Orefors champagne flutes just like the two Steve already had for me which was very thoughtful ...

And my gift for Steve, again on a budget were items I had bought for him at various points, not given because of changes of mind in the theme of that gift, and which magically came together for a lovely V Day gift. All I had to buy was the card :) Thankfully he loved it.

Beautiful the Bear

My card to Steve

I texted Telstra using a special promo they had for the day and our name's appeared on a building in Melbourne like so ...

Holding the Reins of the Runaway Extrovert 2013: Day 45 - Happy Valentine's Day my love

I am an old fashioned romantic and thankfully so is Steve.

So he went to all the trouble to drive back a day early from Bathurst to spend Valentine's night with me. While we both had issues getting up to Newtown by 7 - trains once again went awry while Steve encountered more traffic than normal - he picked me up just after 7.30 and we made it to one of ur favourite restaurants, Sherpas Kitchen just before our booked time of 8.

It was a lovely night. Lots of time to talk, drink wine, eat Momos and luxuriate in each other's company.

Bliss ... and yes very romantic.

Clowning around in the office

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 51 - Lunch in my LEGO lunch box

I finally brought lunch in the new LEGO lunch box my guy gave me as one of my gifts for Valentine's Day.


It is so cool and retro and fun.


I think even the salad that's in it is feeling frisky and playful.


LOVE IT.

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 46 - The celebrity ghosts of Valentine's Day past

Yesterday in fact!

Here in order of receipt (so I am not playing favourites) are Ken Jeong's (Community), Jeri Ryan's (Star Trek Voyager, Body of Proof), and Joel McHale's (Community and The Soup) contributions to the fun of Valentine's day.

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 45 - Valentine's Day far away

Well actually it was quite close being a date and all it's hard not to be in it up to your eyeballs.

But my guy, my love, was away in Bathurst.

But before he left, I got to wake up with him, and get him a hug and kiss (that's all thank you all ye with active imaginations... or is that just me?) before he drove off to far flung country lands...

We started making up silly names for the day. We were greatly amused.

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 44 - My early Valentine's

With my gorgeous guy away for the big day itself - yes I know it's a manufactured day but who cares? - he came over for dinner (late poor thing after an extra long day at work so we were only having entrees at 8.30-ish) and we celebrated again, a little early.

While we watched a double episode of the awesomely good new show, Alcatraz (it premiered that night), we ate delicious camembert cheese on crackers with basil and parmesan dip on top. Yum. Followed by salmon with mango/chilli/coriander/lime salsa on it with broccoli and butternut pumpkin on the side.

Then while we watched the hilarious new episode of Absolutely Fabulous, we ate ice-cream with cupcakes (chocolate marshmallow, coconut red velvet, strawberry) and snuggled into each other.

Oh and yes there was exchanging or presents. My darling man got me the two most beautiful Orrefors crytsla champagne flutes with dark blue teardrops in them. Exquisite. Plus a very cool, funky red Lego lunchbox. Fun! My gifts were quite as high class, I'm afraid, but I gave these red and white romantic coffee mugs, a cute little teddy bear, and season five of Family Guy. Thankfully he loved it!

Damn near perfect night? Yep another one. But always with him. He makes them perfect. (Hey, its valentine's Day, I am allowed to be mushy thank you.)

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 40 - Mixed Bag!

Today was quite the mixed bag of things with no real theme. (Is there ever really a theme? This is life so it's not like an episode of my favourite TV show; and yet I expect some overarching them to emerge... I think I watch too much TV)


First, Rose (at work) got a PR gift (we get them all the time) which included Valentines Day candy - I randomly selected one and got "Blue Eyes" which is tres apropos since I do, in fact, have blue eyes. Eerie... or not...

Then I got a text from Optus telling me they'd discontinued my staff wireless broadband plan - I ceased to be a member of staff three months so way to not process things guys! - and replaced it with a $29.95 per month 4 Gb plan that naturally I would have to pay for. The problem here? When I filled out my termination form, I didn't ask for a replacement plan! Lord knows why they decided I wanted one but it took many phone calls to get it killed off, which is typical of a company with more layers of bureaucracy than a totalitarian state.

And finally, my guy came back from Bathurst after four days away and apart from quite a lot of overdue hugs and kisses, we had dinner at our favourite Turkish eatery on King Street, Matee, where the service was sweet but scatter-brained and the food delicious.