I Love.... Love.

My to die for v-day kiss

I love Valentine's Day. I really do. My love for this day started back in my Freshman year of college. My roommates and I would never go to school on Valentine's day, but rather spend the day in our pajamas visiting every local bakery. In addition to visiting bakeries, we would decorate our windows with black broken hearts and huge signs that read "STAY SINGLE".  Why we were so bitter at such a young age, I have no idea. I also have no idea why we continued to decorate our windows with these signs for multiple Valentine's days. We finally stopped when we realized that if we ever wanted our V-day bakery marathons to be sponsored by men, we would have to take down the broken hearts.

Although I no longer live with any of these original roommates, I kept the tradition alive. I ditched school and instead of visiting the bakeries, I worked the bakery. Did you know Valentine's is the busiest day of the year for bakeries? I saw millions of boys come in and get cookies for their girls, I congratulated each and every one of them for being smart enough to buy cookies versus flowers and assured them their girls will love them forever. The day was then topped off by throwing a Valentine's Day party with my roommates. The best part of the party was the youtube play list that projected onto our wall. We found every cheesy love song from the 90's. I'm talking about Janet Jackson, S club 7, KC & Jo Jo, Boyz II Men and just every treassure you can remember. I loved it.

Just when I thought things couldn't get better than the youtube playlist, I get this text: "Natalie, I will always be your Valentine, love Dad". Okay, so maybe it would be cooler if there was another name there instead of Dad, but that man's always been the best Valentine I could ask for. Love you dad.

Hope you all loved love today.