Happy V-Day to me

I agree to spend my Saturday afternoon assisting Toni in her quest for a Valentine's Day gift for the fiance, which consisted of the very arduous task of going to a mall.  Yea, boo hoo, I know.  So the first stop on this trip was DSW.  I've been in the market for some new brown shoes to wear to work because my old ones (much as I loved them) had had it and the heels were broken which made walking difficult, also they had started to squeak.  I found this pair that was $35 and then marked an additional 50% off!  I thought it was almost too good to be true, and then I saw that they only had two size 7's and a 7.5 left.  I wear an 8.  I thought just for the hell of it I'd try the 7.5 on anyway and see if they'd work.  In a Valentine's Day miracle, they fit like a dream and I bought them.  Not bad for $17, eh?

Then, of course, outside the shoe store was a table full of little girls selling Girl Scout Cookies so I was forced into purchasing some Thin Mints and some Peanut Butter Patties.  You know, as much as anyone is really ever FORCED to buy and eat delicious cookies.

On the way home from the mall, we stopped at a florist owned by the family of a friend in order for Toni to purchase a rose for her Valentine purposes.  While standing around chatting with said friend, a lady who had walked past us several times put a rose in my hands and said, "here, you have one too."  Isn't it pretty (and can I tell you again how much I love my new camera)?

I rounded out my Valentine's Day with a movie night (Confessions of a Shopaholic - wait for it to come out on DVD) in the company of Alisa, followed by another ridiculous situation on the T (we think a train caught fire or something, all we know for sure is that we were booted out somewhere on Commonwealth Ave and the shuttle buses were nonexistent so we were left to fend for ourselves).  We ended up at a bar where we had some food and some drinks, and just generally a good time.