and after that little train of though, i managed to totally forget that today was valentines day, which is probably a good sign... considering a lot of other single girls my age can't seem to forget and are therefore posting thinly veiled attempts to appear content with their lack of a significant other, things like "single and loving it! i don't need no man to make me happy" or "having a love affair with chocolate and ryan gosling movies instead of a real man" or posting pictures of chocolates and flowers sent to them by their parents, who are undoubtedly aware of their daughter's fragile "single" state, and wording the description ambiguously enough that someone casually glancing through their facebook feed might accidentally assume that the flowers were given to them by a secret male admirer. yes. those postings.
i am happy to report that my valentines day was more of the productive variety. it included:
my first ever trip to ikea, and it was truly underwhelming. as we walked in i kept thinking about the newest episode of 30 rock where liz and her boyfriend criss end up fighting and the creepy ikea employee comes up behind them and screams "silence prisoners! i mean, how can i help you valued customers today?" unfortunately nothing like that happened for me. unless of course, you count everything being written in german, which i don't because i stopped counting that a few weeks ago.
watching pride and prejudice with rakel while eating these fantastic gummy fruit things. i have no idea what they were but i liked them. also, can someone explain to me the phenomenon that is girls who are obsessed with mr.darcy? as far as i can tell he's insufferable for most of the movie, until his very under-the-table redeeming acts, and even then elizabeth still dislikes him. i mean i could understand why girls would want the mr.darcy from the book but not from the movie. not that i didn't like the movie, i did. i found it perfectly fitting for valentine's day.
the bus on my way home was full of young couples holding dollar store chocolates and flowers. actually come to think of it, i saw a lot of couples today. especially young ones engaging in very public displays of affection. now those two kids sucking face on the bus this morning makes a lot more sense.
well it's officially 2:45 AM here, and i have officially managed to ruin whatever semblance of a normal sleep schedule i was attempting to maintain. so i think i'll head to bed.
oh! p.s. while in paris we went to a more modern art exhibit and i fell in love with one of the artist's work there. her name is corine perier and she specializes in mixing animals together, kinda. the colors she uses are all bold and very natural and smoothly beautiful. here are a few of her works that i absolutely love.
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So I wanted to send you some flowers and chocolates...but after reading this, it is probably a good idea I didn't. Besides way to expensive to send. So...Happy Valentines day!
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