Corner of Bourbon & Division

I'm sorry, you say I got that wrong? That it's Valentine's Day? *peers out the window* Snow Day seems like a perfectly apt name for it. :P

Happy Valentine's Day for those who celebrate it, whether you're single, dating, married, shacked up, in a polyamorous relationship, whatever permutation of humanity floats your boat. Love is for everyone, and doesn't come purely in the form of romantic love, no matter what the greeting cards would like to have you believe.

The proof is in the pudding, after all. Lots of friends get together on Valentine's Day to do something special. My father always made sure that both my mother and I got a symbolic present on the day, too. It wasn't about being a couple, it was about love, and he loves both of us.

It'll be the same tonight. If I can get through all this snow, I need to run some errands in order to make tonight special. I haven't figured out what I want to make for dinner. It has to be something Bean will eat (hah), but I'd also like it to be a little fancier than our usual fare. I also need to wrap the tiny presents I got. I was going to knit little Valentine's hearts for the two of them, but I think I won't have time. Maybe next time. :)

I keep meaning to get back into knitting, but I haven't yet found a pattern that I like and that will use only the yarn I have in my stash. pdaughter seems to really like her Doctor Who scarf, so at least there's that. I should check my stash again, and see what I might be able to get away with.

Also, in my copious amount of spare time, I'm thinking of trying to learn to draw better than I do now. That's not hard, as I can't even manage basic drawing right now. If I ever manage to get myself out of the house today, I'm planning on a trip to Michael's for stitch holders and for a small drawing pad and pencils. I may borrow pdaughter's copy of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and do some of those exercises (I had my own copy, but a long time ago my cats peed all over it and ruined it. My cats are one of the numerous reasons I can't have nice things.). I wonder if april_drawing is still taking place? I've been out of the loop.

I miss a lot of the things I used to do before work ate my life. I miss dancing and learning languages. Dancing isn't feasible these days, schedule-wise, but I may look for some language books and see if I can't immerse myself back in German or Italian, or maybe start a new language. Spanish seems a pretty likely candidate. The last time I tried Mandarin was an unmitigated disaster, so I think holding off on that is a better plan.

Not necessarily in that order. Tonight was fun. The Canadiens won, and I had a lot of beer to celebrate. Apparently I am now officially a Habs fan. At least, so the people at work tell me. Oh well, at least they're the home team. I am also committing the cardinal sin of posting while inebriated.

I think the sentence I'm looking for is: "I'm not as think as you drunk I am!"

We went dancing at a local club, which made me feel old and unhip, which is sad because I'm not even thirty yet. All the people there were twenty years old at most and looked about twelve. There's nothing like getting checked out by a boy barely out of diapers to make one feel really out of it. I've never been "cool" so it was unsettling at best.

It was fun, overall. Dinner at La Cage Aux Sports was lots of fun, and I had a good time dancing too.

So all is well. Tomorrow ought to be a busy day. I'm being switched to a different site because they're sending someone back to Montreal early tomorrow. The OCC in Montreal is apparently really suffering because Litigious!Coworker and Big!Bear are both off on sick leave, which leaves too few operators to man the posts. They've already asked me twice more for overtime this week, and I've said no both times. They may force me to come in, but I've told them I'm not coming in unless they force me.

Okay, bed. Water first, then bed.