For those that don't know, Valentine's day (the 14th), is the day that Helga and I consider ourselves to have started dating. Well, things started happening around then, it was snowing, it was the Superbowl, it was all sorts of fun. Well, that was the first year, which involved a pretty terrible Snoopy Valentine's Day card. To be fair to myself it was very last minute decision making and apparently hitting up the CVS at 10 to close on the 13th is pretty slim pickins. This year was much better!
We went out to the Chat Noir, the French restaurant that we went on our first date at (i was trying to impress her with my French skills). It may have worked a little. Well, we went there to celebrate our one-year-of-dating anniversary. I had more of an opportunity to show off French skills. Having promised not to buy her anything for our anniversary (because of our plans to head out to Phoenix for Spring break). So I did what any middle schooler would do, I put a collection of love songs from my iTunes library onto a couple of CDs for her. I think she liked them. And no, I didn't buy the CDs to burn, I stole them from the extras that Helga had lying around. That's okay, right?
On the note of music. It turns out that we don't have a tone of the same similar tastes. She's a Country girl (with tons of other interests as well). I'm a Soul man (with some other interests as well). I've been thinking about it for a little bit now and may have found the solution to our problems. Well, I was thinking that Country is primarily 'white' music. And I was thinking that Soul is primarily 'black' music. So I want to try and combine the two in order to find a meeting point for both of us. No. Not Kid Rock. We do like Sublime, but that's not what I was thinking either. So then it hit me....Jonny Lang. Does anybody remember that guy? I do. He was supposed to be the next big thing. Okay, maybe Jonny Lang isn't the right answer, but he might be right. I mean, the kid could seriously belt it out.
So yeah, le Chat Noir was delicious. We also decided to buy ourselves a gift (as I believe that birthdays involve gifts for the person and anniversaries involve gifts for the relationship). We bought the platinum edition of Scrabble along with the platinum edition scrabble dictionary (which we later discovered is not the official tournament players' dictionary which involves more dirty words and inappropriate but playable epithets and such. Oh well, we'll just have to make do I suppose. In any case, we've recently become infatuated with Scrabble (on facebook) and have thus decided to make it a part of our lives. Right now I've got more wins, but she's learning fast. Also (on the note of one of my wins) apparently "DIXIE" isn't a playable scrabble word. Ridiculous....and by ridiculous, I mean I felt a little bad when I played it and got 42 points in a game and Helga later looked it up (after a no-challenge) and did not find it. Oops. Oh well. Chalk up another W for Law!
Helga says, "hi!" by the way. She's excited to see you and reminisce and catch up and all that good stuff.
I know this is short, there was actually a lot of stuff I had planned on mentioning, like my lackluster term and my externship (an internship with academic credit), and the fact that the last two weeks I've not been exercising properly but have been playing basketball a little bit...but well, I'm in a hurry to finish this before the month is up. You understand.
Besides, I'm going to see you in a week! (less by the time you get this.) I'll tell you about all of it then...or maybe just bawl my eyes out since it's been too long since I've been able to give you a hug.
I love you Casper and can't wait to see you! Woot, Spring Break in Phoenix, A-Z! okay, well the town might not be fort lauderdale, but hey I'm gonna get to see the guy who has a picture next to 'cool' in the dictionary (I'm not talking about the Fonze). I love you tons!
Law
PS. For anyone who reads (i think there are 6 of you besides my brother), please tell me what would your first/next tattoo be? (You don't have to actually get one). Helga asked me recently, and as some of you may know, it would be one of a couple things....a modified triforce (i know, i know), or a design my brother drew for me of a dagger and heart that I used to sign off--but of course, my brother would have to do it, and we'd work on the design together (it was an original sign-off of mine that Casper made awesome). It's a brotherly connection that means a lot to me...he also did a sweet bird that I liked, but heart dagger and triforce are first.
