When I turned on my phone after school I had a message from Josh. "This is what I want to do today. Meet up with you, go give your sisters their presents, go play basketball, shower, make you dinner and hang out, do presents with you, and that's it. Let me know."
I got a ton of homework today so this worked out perfectly for me - I could bang out a lot of lab notes and math during boy-bonding basketball and then not worry so much about the other stuff. Alex loves her new fingerless gloves - and the skull patches look pretty good sewn on the backs. Josh got Dani a fancy ponytail holder from JCrew. And he got all of us these chocolate dipped strawberries from Godiva - even one for Aunt Elaine. We never had that before - they were really good. There's one left over and Danielle said really loudly she was putting it in the refrigerator for me, but I'm sure Aunt Elaine will eat it while I'm not home. Whatever.
Josh gave me a bracelet from JCrew - it's so nice I kind of got a little choked up. It's not thaaaaat nice, but what's moving is that I saw this in the mall way before Christmas and liked it and Josh secretly got it and I am just touched. He makes me feel so cared about. It's this enamel bangle that has blocks of different colors and it's like ... real grown-up jewelry. Not some bullshit bracelet from Claire's or something. I love it. I want to marry it.
Now I am at Josh's taking a break from chemistry to blog while he showers from basketball. Last night I baked him cookies. Some in the shape of hearts, some in letter shapes that spell LOVE. Very corny, I know. I printed out vintage valentines day cards that I found online on tissue paper and wrapped the box of cookies with that paper and string. Lame. But Josh's whole face lit up and he said he was really touched and loved them and ate two right away. Also, I gave him a magnet from Spencer's that says, "Go fork yourself" which sounds odd now that I'm writing it out, but it's an inside joke that's funny to us, so it works.
Presents rule. Love rules. Screw people who say Valentine's Day is just so greedy business will get money and people should show their love every day and not just when arbitrary marketing people say they should. Josh does show his love all the time. But it's still nice to know a present is coming your way in mid-February.
Josh gave me a bracelet from JCrew - it's so nice I kind of got a little choked up. It's not thaaaaat nice, but what's moving is that I saw this in the mall way before Christmas and liked it and Josh secretly got it and I am just touched. He makes me feel so cared about. It's this enamel bangle that has blocks of different colors and it's like ... real grown-up jewelry. Not some bullshit bracelet from Claire's or something. I love it. I want to marry it.
Now I am at Josh's taking a break from chemistry to blog while he showers from basketball. Last night I baked him cookies. Some in the shape of hearts, some in letter shapes that spell LOVE. Very corny, I know. I printed out vintage valentines day cards that I found online on tissue paper and wrapped the box of cookies with that paper and string. Lame. But Josh's whole face lit up and he said he was really touched and loved them and ate two right away. Also, I gave him a magnet from Spencer's that says, "Go fork yourself" which sounds odd now that I'm writing it out, but it's an inside joke that's funny to us, so it works.
Presents rule. Love rules. Screw people who say Valentine's Day is just so greedy business will get money and people should show their love every day and not just when arbitrary marketing people say they should. Josh does show his love all the time. But it's still nice to know a present is coming your way in mid-February.
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