2006-02-15 ~ 7:00 a.m.

Valentine's Day Doggy Style

Hola laaahvers!

How was Ye Ol' Valentine's Day? Mine was loverly, thanks. Yes, the Mr. and I celebrated together. We're just romantic, not extravagant and he got me the most beautiful red tulip plant because he knows very well how I do not particularly like red roses. I don't necessarily dislike them, they're a kind gesture, but so very boring. To me, now, roses are what you bring home on a weekly basis. Ya know, if you're feeling a little frisky and don't have the time for candles. I think Valentine's Day should be showing how much you love someone because you remember her favorite flowers are tulips.

But that's just me. Call me New Age.

And then he also got me another fun colored bouquet. Because we like those. Because they're fun.

It was also Chewie's birthday for Valentine's Day. If I was a better mother I would have gotten him a little party hat and taken pictures. But perhaps I'm a *better* doggy mother for not having done so. You all certainly won't think less of me for not doing it is what I'm saying. But he did get extra treats. Like he knows his birthday from his ass. Which he does not lick by the way though my husband insists that he does, but he does not. He licks his inner thigh. Yes, I do admit that he occasionally reaches his ass and is probably trying to reach his ass, but he has a bad back, and he's 11 years old for Chrissakes, but he does get to where his balls used to be, and that's enough for him.

For his birthday, I got him the Mario Andretti Racing Experience-Qualifier Plus, which includes 6 trips around the track, the license, a hat, a shirt, his picture by the car, plus I added on two extra laps, because I'm an impulse buy whore like that. Chewie was really excited by it, but not for why I thought. It turns out he asked me for that just so that he could turn around and give it to the Mr. because he spent all of his allowance on doggie treats. But it's his gift, and he can do whatever he wants with it. I admit being a little hurt because that REALLY overshadows my gift to the Mr. for his birthday, which was only going to be a card. Hey! I would get him a MUCH better gift... Hell, I would have gotten HIM a Qualifier's Plus Mario Andretti Experience so that him and Chewie can do it together. Be a father/"son" thing. It would be cute, but he insisted that I not get him anything, maybe a card. But, hey, it all works out, really. Chewie doesn't like going that fast in the car. When we drive on the freeway, he just curls up and takes a nap. I think the scenery goes too fast for him. And I think curling up and napping going 130 mph is a bad idea.

The weird thing is, I think that even though The Husband gets to do the racing experience, I think he's still a little bit annoyed that I didn't have any intention of getting him the Experience for his birthday even though he asked me not to. SPECIFICALLY asked me not to get him the racing experience, by the way because he knows that I pay attention and he mentioned how much he would super love to do the Mario Andretti racing experience because of how much he loved the Richard Petty Driving Experience.

I'm just sayin'... he has no reason to be annoyed...

All kidding aside, I really didn't mean to buy him that for his birthday when he specifically asked me not to. It was just that I had stopped by my new place on the way to home to check my emails and since his birthday was coming up, I decided then to order the experience to make sure it would get here in time. (Even though that's silly because I had it sent UPS, and his birthday isn't until February 27th. [Which is why I had to give it to him now because I'm also anxious, especially anxious to please.]) And then as soon as I saw him, he fed me some BS about how expensive it was in comparison to the Petty Experience. Or so I so smugly thought at the time. About the BS, I mean. The Qualifier Experience is 8 laps in the Petty Experience, but 6 laps in the Andretti Experience, so he was kinda telling the truth. But he did make it out to seem like it was really much more expensive than it was. Though, they do have some that are REALLY unnecessarily expensive.

I don't even know what the hell I'm talking about anymore.

In other news...

I really really hate myself for watching Miss Lisa Loeb's #1 Single.

Ya know I always thought that if they put a nice quality reality show where they do nothing but follow someone around and just follow their day to day life, I would probably watch it.

And I do. (Isn't that one of her songs?)

It fascinates me that the whole thing is motivated by wanting to have children. I can't imagine reaking of the desperation that she does. I mean, I've reaked of my own kind of desperation, but I really, really can't imagine being desperate to want children.

YAY!! A new celebrity sighting.

I won't say who... but a very famous couple...a couple that have a history of hating their pictures being taken when they're not on the red carpet... were at the place that I work. (They might have been there for the guy's birthday... his birthday might have been January 31st....I'm just sayin'.) And they were playing blackjack, but they were playing where they could be seen by anyone there, so I hate to say that it is half their fault, but it kinda is. I pray for the day that Vegas can be cool like New York for celebrities. Where they can go from casino to casino without being bothered too much. But that day is so very, very far away. I, myself, still get breathless anytime I see a very famous couple who may or may not have punched a paparazzo at some point. Anyway, they were playing blackjack and some folks were trying to take picture phone pictures of them, so the very famous girl was covering her face and then gave the international sign for "I don't want my picture taken by you," or as you and I call it, "The Bird". It was loverly. I wish I had a picture.

I finally got my new car!!! FWYYYYYYYYY!!!

It is too cool. I got the Scion tC. It's adorable. It's silver. I didn't actually want silver, but it was the first automatic tC with side curtain airbags available. It wasn't even supposed to come to Vegas, but my wonderful car salesman (how often do you get to say that?) made it so. I didn't even have to pay a transfer fee. I was supposed to get the car yesterday, and the iPod connector isn't yet in properly, so I have to go back.. but overall, I've had a really good experience with the Scion that I bought my car from. The Scion/Toyota on West Sahara here in Las Vegas is really, really horrible full of really, really horrible people. And it can't be slander if it's true. I dislike them so much I'm going to send Scion letters about them.

Alright, I have to go show off my kickass car to my friend(s).

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