life is very full these days, even when it isn’t. i’ve been working harder and more often lately, which has been stimulating, which i like. i say bring it on. i’ll only get better if i am challenged, after all.
but in non-work terms, it’s been about the overload of goodies in the wake of christmas and a birthday. my pile of books waiting to be read is the tallest it’s been in ages, which is exciting, but comes with a feeling of pressure. not only do i love reading books, i love buying books, and i can’t do that again until i polish off this stack. another challenge i take pretty seriously.
luckily my reading time has increased as i finally caved to the digital age and decided to digitize our full music collection. for years i’d been romanticizing the act of actually putting a cd into a music player, not wanting to let that go. but naturally any new purchases were digitizing for iphone-loading purposes, which led to only ever clicking on itunes instead of grabbing a cd, because hey, that’s so much easier, which meant never listening to the other 80% of what we own. finally, i conceded, which meant hours of popping in discs and hitting import, and lots and lots of reading, five minutes at a time while the disc drive spun. finally, a few days ago, it’s done, and now i can put our entire 30 days or so worth of music on shuffle, and just soak it all in. amazing how many fun songs i hadn’t heard in years out of pure laziness.
then there was this just-finished three day weekend, which was surprisingly not full at all in terms of professional or social obligations. it being valentine’s and all, we made plans for a few date-type activities (bazaar for dinner friday, mortified sunday night). on top of that, we tried to hit up the LA street food fest saturday, but took a pass on seeing the epic line, opting to stroll down to cole’s instead. the rest of the time, there was movie-watching, olympic-watching, eating, lounging, drinking, laughing. essentially, three and a half days straight of nothing but each other.
and to me, that’s how you know you have a good valentine. anyone can plan a nice date for a few hours. woo them with fancy drinks and gourmet plates and dressing up and all that. that’s rookie stuff. we spent a whole weekend, an extended one even, together from dress-up to dress-down, tapas to french dips, stage show to IMAX (we also saw avatar), metro bus to couch, and had a great time the whole way through. in fact, it seems this happens at least once a month, where monday morning comes and we realize ‘hey, we hung out, just the two of us, all weekend’, without giving it a second thought. because we have a great time that way. of course we love our friends, but if nothing else, we have each other, and that’s wonderful. now that’s a valentine.
Posted: February 16th, 2010
at 9:45pm by brian longtin
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Sara Longtin on 17 Feb 10 at 12:26 am
I’m jealous of your Valentine’s weekend. I only got to talk to mine for about an hour. We did something very similar to you guys last year…hopefully next year will be better!
tinna on 17 Feb 10 at 5:58 am
i spent valentine’s evening laying out kitchen floor tile.
i wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.