Happy Valentine's Day!

Well, yet another Valentine's Day has arrived. The day when we show those that we love what they mean to us.Yeah, well Hallmark and Walmart I ain't buying it. I believe that we should show the people we love how we feel 365 days a year. So, I am declaring this day, "Great Excuse for Chocolate Day". I don't care what the box is shaped like, it could be aardvark shaped for all I care just gimme, gimme that chocolate.

With all this talk of  love floating in the webisphere today I thought I would talk about a few things that I love..besides chocolate that is because today it is number one on my hit parade. See if you feel the same..

Pizza..not just any pizza will do usually, but I have come to realize that pizza  can match your mood. If you are feeling like a "chunky butt" there is veggie types. For down days give me a meat lovers pizza. My absolute favorite pizza comes from a hole in the wall place, cat flinging distance from the house I grew up called "Tower of Pizza". You can watch them flip the dough through the air, it comes in 2 sizes small and large, you need longer arms to wrestle the hot cheese from the pan to your plate and for me it's  a pepperoni, mushroom and extra cheese, no extra charge for the half inch of grease on top. Not health food, but sometimes you just don't care.

Coffee.. some of the best gifts I've ever received where a bag of beans that I had to grind on my own with a bow on top. It's the stuff that keeps this old bod moving (diet pepsi too). There is just something about a quiet house and a steaming cup of coffee in the morning that says my legs could fall off right this minute, the dishwasher could explode, and the house burn down, but it's ok because I have this awesome cup of joe. 

Puppies.. there is just something about squeeking, waggly, licky balls of fuzz with Puppy Chow breath  that makes me all smiley inside. Of course puppies grow to be adult dogs, but when you are a dog person you just know that you've got the most perfect and unconditional love right there before you, and you don't really care about the proof of their affection they leave laying around for you to retrieve or the holes in your shoes. I've only been without a dog for 3 years in my forty-blah-blah years and those where some lonely damn years. When I get old I'll be the crazy dog lady, sitting on my porch, talking to my wiener dog. 

The Bay City Rollers..Donny Osmond..and Rick Springfield..If you know me personally  you know that I would walk naked, in a hurricane, across shards of flaming broken glass, up hill in the dead of winter to see any of these men in concert or having their shoes shined, it wouldn't matter. Their music colors the scrapbook  of my life, and to me is perfect. If you don't know me or  their music take thy self to youtube right now, and watch these videos, Bay City Rollers "You Made Me Believe In Magic" Donny Osmond "Soldier of Love" and Rick Springfield "Jesse's Girl". Nuf said on that, don't question me.

Traveling.. nothing beats (for me anyway) throwing some clothes in a bag, gassing up the car, and hitting the road. The freedom of the road stretching out before you,  moving from point A to point B and beyond, and it doesn't matter if I'm going across the state for a marching band competition or across the country let's just go and get  the hell outta here for a little while. And if we are staying someplace where I don't have to cook or do laundry even better. Score!

I could go on and on, the list of my loves are vast, but I will throw out one more.. Books.. the ability to read and process the multitude of words contained in a book is the greatest gift that could be granted I believe. Growing up I remember trips to the library during the summer and you threw open the door and walked into the dimly lit book lined walls. The smell was library smell, it was hushed in contrast to the traffic outside, and you stood before the rows and rows like you would stand before the alter in church. You have to touch their spines, and treat them with reverence. Within the covers of a book you can learn, dream, laugh and cry. Your imagination is used not a keyboard, controller, or other costly appliances. 

So there you go, now go out and be with the one you love, love the one you're with, or buy a book but have a fabu VDay.

Until next time...ME