happy valentine's day

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

I hope you have something special planned with someone you love. I like Valentine's Day. For no special reason, but I think it is nice to show your love (and I think gratitude comes naturally during Valentine's Day too) for people you care about. It's sweet.
Something you don't often hear from a single gal. (However, for those single gals out there who aren't so keen on Valentine's Day... give this a gander.)

I have a few different love themed things to share...

#1 This is a beautiful photography series by Lauren Fleishman Love Ever After. Literally, just beautiful in so many ways. Check it out!

Little by little we age but we don't change in our hearts. Love gets stronger. That is the way I feel. I believe he feels the same way. Yes, he was my first love. My first love and my last.

—Leila Ramos, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

#2 I got some Dove chocolates from a volunteer at work. I love Dove chocolates almost solely because of their sayings inside. Here are the ones I got:
Discover how much your heart can hold.
Remember your first crush.
Get swept away by love.
Go where your heart takes you.

#3 Here are a couple songs for you to enjoy

#4 What did I do for Valentine's Day.
I made cards.
I made a cup of green tea, pulled out my craft bag, turned on pandora love station (yes, as I found out, it exists ;) ), and got to work

I love cards. I think they are the most important part of any gift. I'm not exaggerating at all. I helped my cubemate come up with his Valentine's Day gift and I even told him the card is the most important part. Maybe it's just me. But that's what I think.

Usually I get made fun of for my homemade cards, but I don't care.

I didn't make these, but they are beyond cute and an awesome idea...

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#5 I really hope you saw google's Valentine's Day thing. It was adorable!

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museum field trip

i've been doing really well on my field trip resolution . yesterday i hit up another one: the chicago history museum . it turns out it was a free day there, even though i was going to get in free anyway. that means it was busy! which is fine, i still got to take a gander around. I've never been to the history museum before so that in itself was exciting. probably my favorite part was when they talked about the world's fair in chicago (i can't remember the exact name). the buildings were so much grander than i imagined them in my mind while i read, devil in the white city a couple months ago. it was fun to see what it was really like. and wow! there was also an awesome exhibit about workers rights and such. so it was a fun little excursion.

thanksgiving time

( via ) Yes, I like Santa. But why is everyone so anxious to start with Christmas? Why can't we appreciate Thanksgiving first? don't get me wrong, i'm excited to watch Love Actually again (when it's in-season. i actually watch it all year long). everyone kept talking about christmas being everywhere this month, but i really only encountered it when i walked around the mall with Greta (my sister-in-law) on Monday. it was all over the mall. it could have been december. look what Nordstrom is doing i'm actually really excited for thanksgiving this year... (details to follow) but as far as today goes... I have to share this with you because I think it's funny ( via ) actually... at 11:11 I was running around looking for a book called The Moon Seems to Change

Birthday

i was yawning? Here I am: 28! Top 5 of 27: LouFest Marathon Florida (how can a vacation not make it?) New Job trip to Savannah to meet Callie ! My parents came to Chicago last weekend to help me celebrate & celebrate we did! It was a super fun weekend! And it was 40 degrees! Friday I was on the phone with a member from Kansas City. He started chatting with me about the weather and I said, "we are currently experiencing a heat wave in Chicago of 34 degrees." He responded, "it's supposed to be 60 here this weekend, we're going to pull out our bbq grills." I laughed, but thought, 'why are my parents coming here?!? why am I not going where it's warm?!?' SIXTY DEGREES! We won't see that til...april? may? obsessed i made a baby snowman, no one wanted to help so i went with a tiny one... ;) What I would give for the day off today! I want a nap ;)

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