Whoadang and a belated birthday

# of days till July: 3 (holy crap!)

# of days till the wedding: in the teens (!!)

# of days till Seth is home: in the single digits (!!!)

# of days till my sister is home: one week!

# of days till I move: completely unknown. Thanks, Army!

# of days since I've been 27 (eek!): 2 weeks, where I got these lovely flowers delivered at work :)

Valentine's Day

In keeping with tradition, I got a pretty bouquet of roses yesterday at work :)

This is technically our third Valentine's Day together, but we've only spent the first one together in person. Andddd....that night, we both ended up hammered drunk in the hotel room. Thankfully we had dinner in the hotel, so we just hand to stumble back to the room, and at some point I had to take my heels off because I couldn't even walk in those. Then I may have thrown up in the middle of the night got up to to go pee in the middle of the night, and when I attempted to crawl back into bed, Seth was sprawled out in a slant, across the bed, and he was drunk too and wasn't moving so I could get in. I in a drunken stooper had to pick his legs up and physically move them so I could get a little piece of warmth and attempt to go back to sleep. That was also the Valentine's Day when he was living in the barracks and I made him a huge portable pan of lasagna so he could take it back to the barracks. The things we do for love :)

For the record, I never drink that much...but I was having a conversation with the bartender about how mad I get when people talk about Octomom and she just kept pouring me long island ice teas. And the next thing I knew, I was very drunk. It was still a very memorable weekend though :)

Happy flowers

I got Cheer Me Up flowers yesterday, with a little note that said we've had a rough few days and he hoped these flowers cheer me up. They were sent to me at work, of course... That's just what he does :)

I got Halloween flowers!!

This is the second time Seth has randomly sent me flowers this deployment. They're always sent to my work and they make my coworkers jealous!! Not going to lie, I do love that part (he knows that I love it, and I'm sure he loves the attention just as much!). And I love when people come down from different parts of the building to check them out. I love that word travels fast for when I get flowers!! This was a happy Halloween bouquet (who gets those!?) and had red roses and orange lillies. It is a very pretty Halloween bouquet! He's so good to me :)



On a different related yet not note, I went out to dinner with Molli the other night and it was like 67 degrees in my apartment when I got home. ABSOLUTELY FREEZING! When Seth was in Iraq, before we met, I convinced him to wear a t-shirt for a few days and then send it to me. He did this (then I got a wicked sty in my eyes - totally gross, I know - and I totally blamed him for it. I thought it was pink eye, and I was thinking, "what a jerk, he's giving me pink eye and we haven't even met?!" I think I used to get sties in like elementary or middle school...I haven't had one in forever, so of course it was his fault since I had just gotten his shirt and suddenly got one). Anyways, he sent me the shirt, I lived through the sty and I've worn it to bed since I've gotten it. So after I got home from dinner, I had the bright idea to put the shirt in the dryer to warm it up. When I put it on, it seriously felt like a big amazing warm hug from Seth. It felt sooo amazing for a good few seconds. But I was so cold and my coldness sucked the heat out of it, and then it just felt like a t-shirt, but for those few seconds, it was as close to a hug from him that I've felt in 7 1/4 months. And it made me even more excited for R&R. 2monthish2monthish2monthish.....

I'm off to the gym, going shoe shopping (DSW sent me a $20 off $49 coupon because they "miss me!!" How can I resist that?! I can't. That's how), going to my future in-laws house to finalize the guest list and do some wedding talk (I'm contemplating taking over my whole wedding binder, or will that freak them out?!), going to my parents to carve my pumpkin (and bake Seth pumpkin seeds) and then I'm going out with Molli later tonight. Should be a fun weekend and I'm super stoked for it.

I'm participating in blog around the world again!! Thanks to Amanda

Hope you all have a great weekend, too!

My flowers got a friend a date with her husband!

So the flowers that Seth sent me on Friday randomly? The really pretty ones that people came to admire and smell? These ones right here:

Well, they've gotten my dear friend and co-worker, S, a date with her husband! She told me she went home last Friday and was telling (hinting, perhaps) her husband that Seth sent me flowers just because. Being the smart man that he is, he's planned a surprise date for her tonight. He arranged for the babysitter, he's made the plans and he's taking her out and she has no idea where or what they are doing! I'm excited (albeit jealous) for her.

Seth sent me flowers!!!

I was standing at the copy machine and my coworker, M, was walking to me and she said, "STACY!!! Someone sent you flowers!!!!" And her face was buried in them and she was smelling them and saying how pretty they are. So I read the little card, and although he didn't sign his name, I know it was from Seth. I think they are pretty random, usually I get flowers on certain holidays, but not just because.

I was being a whiny brat yesterday on gmail and I could tell he was very frustrated with me. I called him before he went to bed and apologized, and he said I was being rather dramatic about the whole situation. (For the record, I didn't think I was being dramatic, I just thought I was being very very whiny). Regardless, I think these flowers were part of that little argument.

Here's a picture of them (sorry for the bad quality, it's from my phone. You can get the drift though).