What Struck Me

Assorted stuff going through my head today:

• Valentines Day- the first gift I ever gave a boy for Valentines Day was a small cake. They were selling heart-shaped :heartbeat: cakes at my high school as a fundraiser, so I bought him one. I just had no clue what to get him! I also remember inviting him up to my bedroom for the first time ever to give it to him in private (with the door open and my mom’s warning to come right back downstairs afterward…) I’m pretty sure he gave me a plaque (I know he gave it to me at some point, just not sure it was that day…) that said Our First Kiss on it. It was one of those Hallmark mushy plaques but it stayed on my wall until I married him. It’s still in a box with a bunch of other mushy stuff.
• The Grammys last night were the best I’ve seen in years. I don’t think I even watched them for ten years or so but I stayed up for the whole thing last night. Lots of rock :rocker:. Melissa Etheridge doing Janis Joplin was incredible and it was reassuring to see she’s obviously feeling just fine. U2 were great as always. Green Day blew me away. The opening montage with Los Lonely Boys was pretty cool.
  The duet with J-Lo and Marc Anthony completely sucked, and what was she wearing? I love Queen Latifah but she really needs better material to work with. I was barely tolerating the all-star Across the Universe (one of my all-time favorite songs) and then they went and actually changed the lyrics (”somethings going to change my world”??) which cinched it for me- it was just bad. Found out Springsteen won at some point for best male vocal for Code of Silence proving that it’s time for him to put a new record out already.
• I’ve got the email address that Andy gets college info sent to set up to come to my own desktop, figuring all the easier for me to help him sort through the ten-gazillion colleges, but it’s getting mail every 5 minutes or so. I hear the incoming mail bleep and get all excited, just to find out it’s some little college in Ohio desperately pleading for my son to click on their website. Again. At first I was hopeful that they’d all switched to email and our snail mail box wouldn’t be so full of these things, but nope, that’s full too. I have a shoebox full now and I’m moving on to a file box. And does he look at any of this stuff? No. Ack, there’s another one (heh, this one’s from Marist College, where I spent my freshman year. Someday I’ll have to tell that story…)
• We had a so much fun on Saturday night at a dinner dance sponsored by the PTO, despite the fact that it was sponsored by the PTO. I’ve really made some good friends around here, and those of you who’ve known me awhile know that wasn’t the case for a long time in my life- real life friends were few and far between. I wish I’d known then that all I needed was a winning personality and lots of gifts to hand out (just kiddin’!)
• I’m really hungry.

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