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The Baboo usually gets multiple things for Valentines. This year she gets a musical card (plays - Hey Good Lookin', What You Got Cookin'), a regular box of candy and a big glass jar of M&M's. The M&M's are what I like best.

You can get personalized imprints on your M&M's now. You get to choose two colors. I chose pink and red. You get to choose two different messages to have imprinted on the M&M's in an even distribution over the two colors. My two personalized messages were
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I LOVE
BABOO
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BABOO
LOVES ME.

I hope she likes them. Actually, I hope she notices that they have a message on them before she eats them all.

My hubby actually went to a store and bought me Godiva "G" chocolates and roses.



The chocolates are elegant and beautiful and I almost don't want to eat them because they are so perfect.

He also bought chocolates and flowers for the girls. That was really sweet of him.

Those chocolates are too pretty to eat, PSM. Very nice.

I sent my 90 year old mother flowers that came with a small box of chocolates. She's impossible to buy for, doesn't get out much and is lonesome, so she's the only one I do anything for on Valentine's Day.

kayrharris wrote:
I sent my 90 year old mother flowers that came with a small box of chocolates. She's impossible to buy for, doesn't get out much and is lonesome, so she's the only one I do anything for on Valentine's Day.

You are a good daughter.

The girls and I went to Disneyland and bought my mom Disneyland candy, then went to the Basin store at Downtown Disney and bought her exotic soap. I should have sent her flowers.

PSM, those chocolates are beautiful!

t.

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:My hubby actually went to a store and bought me Godiva "G" chocolates and roses.



The chocolates are elegant and beautiful and I almost don't want to eat them because they are so perfect.

He also bought chocolates and flowers for the girls. That was really sweet of him.

They look like works of art!

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:My hubby actually went to a store and bought me Godiva "G" chocolates and roses.



The chocolates are elegant and beautiful and I almost don't want to eat them because they are so perfect.

He also bought chocolates and flowers for the girls. That was really sweet of him.

He has excellent taste!

I bought the same ones for Kim.

I pooped all over people's Valentine's Day.

I apologize for deflating the day. I apologize for minimizing a day that you enjoy.

I have some calls to make.

I will do so.

I got a child off the bus with a fever over 103. So there went dinner. My husband stayed later at work, then went to the gym and picked up some Chinese. It actually worked out well--the rest of the party had to wait almost an hour for the table, then the food was undercooked and the waiter brought the wrong wine. The good places just get overwhelmed on Amateur Night...


I got the dark chocolate Godivas, which Erin brought me and encouraged me to open, and of course she pilfered one right away. It was coconut, so she spit it out into her hand, then tried to hand it to me (I grabbed a tissue), then went to go sign my cards, so I not only got her world-famous smiley-face signature, it came with chocolate handprints. Moms live for that kind of stuff!

I am impossible to shop for, since I don't really want anything, so my husband got me a bathrobe to match the one I got him that he loves, so I now have 4, but three are the thin, flimsy kind and the new one is the good, substantial kind. I had also expressed an interest in reading Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential (my s-i-l hadn't heard of it and we were discussing restaurant food, and Kay reminded me when we were discussing food shows overrunning the Travel Channel), so he got me that also.

All in all a good day, discounting glassy-eyed children...

I got my mom flowers- she's still in the rehab joint, getting ready to move to assisted living in a few weeks. But, the cool story is not what I did.

Some guys from the local American Legion visited and all the veterans at the rehab center (about 20, Mom figured, about 3 of which were women) gathered and got cards and sweaters from the AL guys- and $2. I figure they want the old vets to go to the racetrack.

In case I never told this story, my mom was in the Navy in WWII, stationed in DC. She was a meteorologist in a unit that was trying to crack the Japanese code. Why a meteorologist? Because when the Japanese occupied a given island, and radioed to other islands, one thing they would likely include was the local weather. My mom's unit was assigned to figuring out what the weather was on occupied islands, so the code guys could take the weather info and see if it matched any intercepted signals.

We were talking about it the other day, and she told me one of the tough parts was, when people asked about what she was doing in the Navy, she had to say, "I'm not allowed to talk about it."

My mom, the spy.

Yes- my wife and I gave ourselves a present- we went to the travel agent and booked ourselves a 15th-Anniversary trip to Aruba- at the same resort where we spent our honeymoon.

We will leave the first week of May, so it will be EXACTLY 15 years after we first went that we're going again.

It's great when a plan works out! We had said to ourselves when we left that we would come back 15 years later, and now we're actually going to do it!

Jeemie wrote:Yes- my wife and I gave ourselves a present- we went to the travel agent and booked ourselves a 15th-Anniversary trip to Aruba- at the same resort where we spent our honeymoon.

We will leave the first week of May, so it will be EXACTLY 15 years after we first went that we're going again.

It's great when a plan works out! We had said to ourselves when we left that we would come back 15 years later, and now we're actually going to do it!

Good for you!

I am also glad that Aruba will get some of your money.

I have only been there once and I loved every minute of it.

Casinos and beaches - what else can one want?

peacock2121 wrote:

Jeemie wrote:Yes- my wife and I gave ourselves a present- we went to the travel agent and booked ourselves a 15th-Anniversary trip to Aruba- at the same resort where we spent our honeymoon.

We will leave the first week of May, so it will be EXACTLY 15 years after we first went that we're going again.

It's great when a plan works out! We had said to ourselves when we left that we would come back 15 years later, and now we're actually going to do it!

Good for you!

I am also glad that Aruba will get some of your money.

I have only been there once and I loved every minute of it.

Casinos and beaches - what else can one want?

It's also not humid. And pretty much everybody on the island is making a decent living- no racking poverty like on some islands. And people are just nice there.

Let's all go!

nitrah55 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:

Jeemie wrote:Yes- my wife and I gave ourselves a present- we went to the travel agent and booked ourselves a 15th-Anniversary trip to Aruba- at the same resort where we spent our honeymoon.

We will leave the first week of May, so it will be EXACTLY 15 years after we first went that we're going again.

It's great when a plan works out! We had said to ourselves when we left that we would come back 15 years later, and now we're actually going to do it!

Good for you!

I am also glad that Aruba will get some of your money.

I have only been there once and I loved every minute of it.

Casinos and beaches - what else can one want?

It's also not humid. And pretty much everybody on the island is making a decent living- no racking poverty like on some islands. And people are just nice there.

Let's all go!

All, like, all?

Or all, like, people who could stand being with each other, all?

peacock2121 wrote:

nitrah55 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote: Good for you!

I am also glad that Aruba will get some of your money.

I have only been there once and I loved every minute of it.

Casinos and beaches - what else can one want?

It's also not humid. And pretty much everybody on the island is making a decent living- no racking poverty like on some islands. And people are just nice there.

Let's all go!

All, like, all?

Or all, like, people who could stand being with each other, all?

All. It's a big island.

They haven't found Natalee Holloway yet. Maybe we could "lose" a few folks......?

All, like, all?

Or all, like, people who could stand being with each other, all?

I hear it's easy to conceal a body there....

t.

Yeah, but all the cops would do is read this bored and I would be the leading suspect.

They would like me, all right.

minimetoo26 wrote:All. It's a big island.

They haven't found Natalee Holloway yet. Maybe we could "lose" a few folks......?

a) It's actually the smallest of the ABC islands. We drove around the entire thing in a couple of hours.

b) They haven't found Natalie Holloway yet because (if the latest stories from Van der Sloot are to be believed) her body was dumped into the ocean- which IS a big place!

peacock2121 wrote:Yeah, but all the cops would do is read this bored and I would be the leading suspect.

They would like me, all right.

Well- of course they would, being as you've carved "Bite Me!" into your leg and all!!

I was in Aruba years ago, and I loved it. The people I met were wonderful, and the white sand beaches were incredible.

If the opportunity arises, I can pack to go back in a flash.

silvercamaro wrote:I was in Aruba years ago, and I loved it. The people I met were wonderful, and the white sand beaches were incredible.

If the opportunity arises, I can pack to go back in a flash.

I'd smuggle you in my suitcase, but my wife might object.

I'd smuggle you in my suitcase, but my wife might object

Not once she met her.


t.

Jeemie wrote:
I'd smuggle you in my suitcase, but my wife might object.

Oh, sure. If your wife wouldn't mind, you'd let me ride in the baggage compartment. I won't let my dogs ride there.

Harrumph. To quote Jane Fonda, "I don't think so."

nitrah55 wrote: In case I never told this story, my mom was in the Navy in WWII, stationed in DC. She was a meteorologist in a unit that was trying to crack the Japanese code. Why a meteorologist? Because when the Japanese occupied a given island, and radioed to other islands, one thing they would likely include was the local weather. My mom's unit was assigned to figuring out what the weather was on occupied islands, so the code guys could take the weather info and see if it matched any intercepted signals.

That's cool. I hadn't thought about that being part of codebreaking, before.

nitrah55 wrote: We were talking about it the other day, and she told me one of the tough parts was, when people asked about what she was doing in the Navy, she had to say, "I'm not allowed to talk about it."

My mom, the spy.

And that's very cool!

silvercamaro wrote:

Jeemie wrote:
I'd smuggle you in my suitcase, but my wife might object.

Oh, sure. If your wife wouldn't mind, you'd let me ride in the baggage compartment. I won't let my dogs ride there.

Harrumph. To quote Jane Fonda, "I don't think so."

What can I say? I'm cheaper than SSS.